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19th EMODnet Technical Working Group and 1st Task Force meeting (Spring 2026) - Agenda

This agenda contains all topics for discussion during the 19th EMODnet Technical Working Group Meeting and first EMODnet Task Force, taking place on 18 and 19 March 2026.

Theme
  • EMODnet

19th EMODnet Technical Working Group Meeting Spring 2026

Date and time: 19-20 March 2026

Location: Remote (Zoom)

Meeting Chair: Zoi Konstantinou (EC, DG MARE), Conor Delaney (Technical Coordinator, EMODnet Secretariat)

Participants: EMODnet Secretariat, EMODnet Portal Technical team, EMODnet Thematic and Data Ingestion Coordinators, CINEA, EC DG MARE

Draft agenda

Thursday 19th March 2026, 10:00 - 17:00 CEST

10:00 EMODnet TWG convenes

10:00 – 10:10 – Opening 

  • Welcome & introduction (Zoi Konstantinou (DG MARE) & Conor Delaney (EMODnet))
  • Action list from 17th TWG (Conor Delaney)

10:10 – 11:00 - Updates from Central Portal technical team 

  • JIRA overview and usage (Shared beforehand and not covered in the meeting) (Tim Collart)
  • OGC service monitoring (Tim Collart)
  • Map Viewer updates (Conor Delaney/Clara Becares)
    • Feature updates.
    • Documentation and Open-Source planning
    • Proposed Europa Analytics event tracking
  • Progress monitoring major update, preview (Q2 2026) (Nathalie Tonné/Conor Delaney)
    • Tracking of web services (OGC & ERDDAP) (Bart Vanhoorne)

  1. 11:00 - 11:30 - Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30 Technical Updates from EMODnet Thematics & Data Ingestion (All) - 60'

  • Bathymetry - 15'
  • Biology - 15'
  • Chemistry - 15'
  • Data Ingestion - 15'

 

12:30 Break for Lunch

 

 

14:00 EMODnet TWG Afternoon session.

  • Geology - 15'

 

  • Human Activities - 15'
  • Physics - 15'
  • Seabed Habitats - 15'

15:00 Task Force on metadata harmonisation – Part I

  • Metadata updates
    • Progress on Distribution Information and Constraint sections (Tim Collart) - 15'
    • Proposal to harmonise the ‘data provenance’ and ‘temporal reference’ sections to support MSP (Nathalie Tonné) - 15'
    • Proposal to review data/product level description, EMODnet levels are now part of the BODC controlled vocabulary (EM-1196) (Joana Beja) - 15'

Friday 19th March 2026, 10:00-12:30 CEST

10:00 Task Force on metadata harmonisation – Part 2

  • GeoNetwork Functionalities
    • Decide on the available filters for the GeoNetwork Catalogue
      • Fix to problem when query to Product catalogue does not provide full answer (EM-1189) (Dick Schaap)
    • Web page formatting of metadata
      • Format of Bibliographic references (EM-1207) (Uffe Larsen)
      • Styling of Feature Catalogue info in the EMODnet Catalogue (EM-1206) (Uffe Larsen)
  • AI on EMODnet – Discussion

11:00 - 11:30 - Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30 Edito Updates 

  • Data intake flow and role of EMODnet (Tim Collart)
  • EDITO Publishing Toolkit (Frederic Leclercq)

 

12:30 End of day 2