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13th EMODnet Technical Working Group meeting (Spring 2023) - Agenda

Hybrid meeting: Physical meeting at BRUSSELS & online connection (see links below)

Dates: Tuesday 4th April 2022 (13:30 - 17:30) DG AGRI, Wednesday 5th April 2023 (10:00 - 13:30) DG AGRI Central European Summer Time, CEST.

DG AGRI, Rue de la Loi 130, 1040 Etterbeek, Belgium, AGRI-ROOM-L130-11-S1 on 11th floor

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

Overview of 13th EMODnet Technical Working Group (TWG) schedule

Tuesday 4th April 2023: 13:30 - 17:30 EMODnet TWG,

Brussels in person and remotely via meeting link:

https://emodnetsec.my.webex.com/meet/EMODnet

Wednesday 5th April 2023: 10:00 - 13:30 EMODnet TWG,

Brussels in person and remotely via meeting link:

https://emodnetsec.my.webex.com/meet/EMODnet

Meeting Agenda

Tuesday 4th April 2023 13:30 - 17:30 (DG AGRI)

13:30 EMODnet TWG convenes

  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 - 14:15

Updates and progress since previous TWG (Secretariat, VLIZ) - 30’

    • Action list from 12th TWG (Conor Delaney)
    • JIRA overview and usage (Tim Collart)
    • OGC service monitoring Update and INSPIRE compliance and updates (Tim Collart)
  2. 14:15 - 17:30 (Comfort break for 10’ at 15:00)
  • Technical Updates from EMODnet Thematics & Data Ingestion (All Coordinators, 10’ each) – 90’
  • EDITO Update (Frederic Leclercq) – 5’
  • R-Universe for EMODnet GitHub (Joana Beja) – 10’

17:30 TWG Session Closes (earlier if possible).

Wednesday 5th April 2023 10:00 - 13:30 (DG AGRI)

  1. 10:00 – 11:00

Updates from Central Portal technical team on Centralization progress.

  • Bug lists, what problems remain? (Bart Vanhoorne) – 15’
  • Future developments post launch
    • EMODnet Ingestion centralisation (Joana Beja) – 5’
    • Move to Drupal 9 & Move to ECAS login (Bart Vanhoorne) – 10’
  • Meta review process – (Tim Collart) – 10’
  • Update on INSPIRE validator tool (Bart Vanhoorne) – 10’
  • Time stamps (Joana Beja) – 10’ (Several lots include timestamps in their WMS services, this is usually presented in the format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:SS.sss but sometimes it's more useful to show only part of the date, e.g. YYYY or YYYY-MM)
  1. 11:15 - 11:45

Discussion on protocols for updating the CP post launch (Joana Beja/Conor Delaney) – 15’

    • Reports Section
    • New Products

Presentation on the collection of metrics for reporting (Nathalie Tonné/Conor Delaney) – 15’

  1. 11:45 – 12:00
    Overview of helpdesk function (Nathalie Tonné/Conor Delaney) – 15’
  2. 12:00 – 13:15
    Technical Discussion open floor (as suggested at 12th TWG)
  • Technical insights/knowledge share or topics for discussion. To be suggested by thematic groups.

[Please send topics/questions to the Secretariat and we will add them to a slide for this section]

  • AOB
  1. 13:15 Wrap up, actions, next meeting.
    • Next Technical Working Group Meeting: format, date, and location (Secretariat & all).

13:30 TWG End of Meeting (earlier if possible).

The meeting minutes and presentations are available in this article.