Members of the AquaINFRA consortium recently met in Copenhagen for a Joint Case Study Meeting. Focusing on the four 4 case study regions: The Mediterranean Sea, the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and Pan-European, they demonstrated real-world applications and worked on how to proceed and enable synergies. 52°North’s Markus Konkol presented the first version of the AquaINFRA Interaction Platform (AIP), followed by a guided exercise to enhance practical understanding and application.
The IMDIS 2024 takes place from May 27 – 29, 2024 in Bergen, Norway. It aims to provide an overview of existing information systems to serve different users in ocean science. It also demonstrates progress on the development of efficient infrastructures for managing large and diverse data sets, standards, interoperable information systems, services and tools for education. 52°North attends with presentations of our work in the MINKE Project as well as a poster on the AquaINFRA Project.
Session TECH: Technical developments for marine information and data management
12:15 The OGC API – Connected Systems (Christian Autermann and Simon Jirka)
14:15 Interoperable Management and Provision of Metrological Data in Ocean Sciences (Simon Jirka, Christian Autermann, Joaquin Del Rio Fernandez and Enoc Martínez)
Posters – Session SERVICES: Data services and tools in ocean science
EasyChair # 161: The AquaINFRA VRE: A platform to perform freshwater and marine research online (Merret Buurman, Markus Konkol, Vanessa Bremerich and Sami Domisch)
The entire water cycle comprising oceans, seas, coastal, ground and inland water is under high (human) pressure. For this reason, the restoration and protection of our oceans and waters is one of the five EU missions that must be completed by 2030. There is no need to say that this requires research resulting in a number of heterogenous research data products that include hydrology, biodiversity, and socio-economic data. Making such data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (so-called FAIR Principles) is where the EU-funded research project AquaINFRA comes into play.
The AquaINFRA project will support the ongoing development of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) as an overarching research infrastructure. The overall objective of the 4-year project is to develop an AquaINFRA Interaction Platform equipped with FAIR multi-disciplinary data and services to support marine and freshwater scientists and stakeholders in restoring healthy oceans, coastal and inland waters.