The International Coastal Atlas Network ICAN

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The International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN)
Dawn Wright Oregon State University
Ned Dwyer Coastal Marine Resources Centre,
Ireland
FGDC Marine Coastal Spatial Data Subcommittee
Meeting, Oct 8, 2008
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Outline

• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Current Membership
• ICAN Workshop 3
• Interoperability Prototype
• Strategic Directions
• Conclusion

• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion

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Background Intellectual Merit

• Issues of regional governance, coordination
• Significant capacity, varying approaches
• Best practices?
• Widespread solutions needed
• Access to and documentation of data
• Integration of tools
• Decision support for coastal mgmt via atlases
• Semantic interoperability

• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion

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Emergence of Coastal Web Atlases

• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion

• A collection of digital maps and datasets with
  supplementary tables, illustrations, and
  information that systematically illustrate the
  coast, oftentimes with cartographic and decision
  support tools, all of which are accessible via
  the Internet.
• (ODea et al., 2007)
• Coastal Zone Management, Governance
• Governments, NGOs, Citizen Groups

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Emergence of Coastal Web Atlases

• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion

• Marine Irish Digital Atlas, mida.ucc.ie

Oregon Coastal Atlas, www.coastalatlas.net
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Oregon Coastal Atlas, USA
MIDA, Ireland
De Kustatlas, Belgium
Magic, UK
NOAA Digital Coast, USA
And many MORE
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Background Workshop 1, Cork, Ireland

• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion

• To create strengthen relationships between
  experts in marine coastal mapping in North
  America and Europe
• To identify state of the art approaches to
  coastal mapping and informatics

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Background Workshop 2, Corvallis, USA

• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion

• Improve searches between atlases
• metadata to ontologies
• Marine Metadata Interoperabilty
• Semantic interoperability
• Linkages to use cases, communities
• Proof-of-concept ontologies interoperability
  prototype
• Large, collaborative funding proposals

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ICAN Strategic Aims

• Share experiences and find common solutions to
  coastal web atlas development
• Knowledge portal Guides, cookbooks, engines,
  discussion boards, code, use cases
• Globally integrate and interoperate among
  locally-maintained atlases
• Inform regional decision- and policy-making
  across several themes
• Climate change - coastal vulnerability
• Coastal governance (boundaries, protected areas,
  etc.)
• Coastal hazards
• Population pressures
• Marine spatial planning
• Resource availability and exploitation

• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion

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Current Membership

• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion

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Workshop 3, Copenhagen, July 2008

• Advance actions in
• Technical developments
• Review of interoperability prototype
• Strategic directions
• Governance structure
• Welcome new members
• Link to European relevant activities
• Full proceedings at ican.science.oregonstate.edu

• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion

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Interoperability Prototype

• Integrate and facilitate access to several
  distributed heterogeneous coastal atlases

• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion

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Technical Developments

• Focus on coastal erosion as a use-case
• Overarching view vulnerability of coastal
  communities to climate change
• Key Future work on prototype
• At least 6 new nodes
• Implement OGC WMS on all
• Implement WFS on advanced subset

• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion

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Strategic Directions

• Clarified vision and goals of ICAN
• Identified a range of key activities in following
  areas
• Technical project development
• Awareness raising and publicity
• Outreach and training activities
• Documentation of resources, tools, expertise
• Development of ICAN portal

• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion

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Governance Structure

• Generated Document outlining
• Committee structure
• Governance activities
• Pathway towards a sustainable funding model
• Develop a transition plan from ad-hoc steering to
  formalized governance

• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion

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ICAN Workshop 4

• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion

• UNESCO University Trieste, Italy
• Autumn 2009

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For More Information

• Workshop 1 in Cork, Workshop 2 in Corvallis
• workshop1.science.oregonstate.edu
• Workshop 3 in Copenhagen
• ican.science.oregonstate.edu
• ICAN Interoperability Prototype
• ican.ucc.ie

• Outline
• Background
• Strategic Aims
• Membership
• Workshop 3
• Prototype
• ICAN Future
• Conclusion

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Acknowledgments

• U.S. National Science Foundation
• Irish National Development Plan
• Marine Institute (Ireland), Marine RTDI
  Networking Technology Transfer Initiative
• European Environment Agency

Oregon Coastal Mgmt Program