Skip to main content
Maritime Forum

12th EMODnet Technical Working Group meeting (Autumn 2022) - Agenda

Hybrid meeting: Physical meeting at BRUSSELS & online connection

Dates: Wednesday 21st September 2022 (13:30-17:30) DG AGRI, Thursday 22nd September 2022 (09:00-12:00) TRIBES Central Station. All times in Central European Summer Time, CEST.

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

Meeting Agenda

Wednesday 21 September 2022 – 13:30 - 17:30 (DG AGRI)

13:30 EMODnet TWG conveners

  1. 13:30-13:45

Welcome & introduction (Zoi Konstantinou (DGMARE) & Conor Delaney (EMODnet)) – 5’

  • Welcome, recap of guidelines for remote meetings and agenda for the day
  1. 13:45-14:00

Updates and progress since previous TWG (Secretariat, VLIZ) ‘60

    • Action list from 11th TWG
    • JIRA overview and usage
    • OGC service monitoring Update and INSPIRE compliance and updates
  1. 14:00-17:00 (Comfort break for 10’ at 15:00)

Updates from Central Portal technical team on Centralization progress.

  • Demonstration of the Map Viewer
    • Find, view, and download data products.
    • Bug lists, what problems remain?
    • Review of Centralisation Checklist documents (EM-604)
    • Future developments post launch
      • Development of Guidelines and Documents page on the CP (OBPS)
      • Review of the menu structure
      • EMODnet Ingestion centralisation
      • Move to Drupal 9 & Move to ECAS login
      • Edito-infra developments
  • Review and discussion on the collection of metrics for reporting (Secretariat/CINEA)
    • How the information will be captured post centralisation (Europa Analytics)

17:00 Open Session Closes. End of Meeting (earlier if possible)

Thursday 22 September 2022 09:00-12.00 (TRIBES Central Station)

  1. 09:00 – 12:00
  • Technical Updates from EMODnet 7 Thematics & Data Ingestion (All Coordinators) – 60’
  • Presentation on plans for 2023 Open Sea Lab. (Julia Vera) – 15’
  • Presentation on plan from the UK marine data community (MEDIN) to formalise the EMODnet Data Product Definitions into a controlled vocabulary managed through the NERC Vocab Server (Dan Lear) – 15’
  • Discussion on protocols for updating the CP post launch ‘30 (Conor)
    • Static Content
    • News
    • Use Cases
    • Reports
    • Products
    • Web services
  1. 11: 45 Wrap up, actions, next meeting.
    • Next Technical Working Group Meeting: format, date, and location (Secretariat & all).

The minutes and presentations are available in a separate article.