European Marine Observation and Data Network

Marine data ingestion and safekeeping in/for EMODnet 

The European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) brings together more than 160 organizations to improve the harmonized sharing of marine data. As part of the larger EMODnet context, EMODnet Ingestion 2 works on facilitating the data publication process. This in particular includes the EMODnet Data Ingestion Portal, which helps data managers publish their data following open data principles.

52°North’s role in EMODnet Ingestion 2 was that of an expert on Sensor Web technologies. Based on results from previous projects, such as SeaDataCloud, we supported the consortium in challenges related to sharing near-real time observation data streams. This included not only the development of best practices and guidance, but also the creation of dedicated demonstrators and show cases.

In 2021, 52°North continued to work with several partners to enable research vessels to share their near-real time tracking data using interoperability standards, such as MQTT and the OGC SensorThings API. We further refined the resulting data publication workflow built on top of the Eurofleets Automatic Reporting System (EARS) and described it in corresponding publications.

44 partners from all over Europe, https://www.emodnet-ingestion.eu/about/who

52°North is a subcontractor of Maris B.V., The Netherlands, https://www.maris.nl/