Interoperable Data Formats

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Interoperable Data Formats

• International Ice Charting Working Group VI
• Ottawa, October 2005

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Proposal for a Near Term Objective Toward a
Global Ice Mapping System

• Within the next 2 years, all participating Ice
  Services agree on one common database schema for
  their ice mapping systems

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Action Item 5.6

• Clearly define the objective of developing common
  data base scheme i.e. seamless customer support
  vs ice service interoperability. Outline a
  project plan including goals for the first
  technical workshop on the issue

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The virtual world ice service
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Ice Service Interoperability

• Ice Services can easily and seamlessly exchange
  ice chart information
• Reduce duplication of effort with simple cut
  paste from a neighbouring Services chart
• With appropriate agreements
• Support production of a common global ice
  analysis
• Where every service concentrates on the areas it
  knows best

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Seamless Customer Support

• A mariner travelling across oceans should be able
  to access ice information from different local
  authorities in the same manner and with the same
  look and feel
• Mariners tell us that they do not want to use
  special systems to get ice information
• Electronic Navigation Charts and ECDIS are
  rapidly becoming the standard for route planning
  and ship navigation
• Ice Services should provide ice chart information
  in a format compatible with ENCs
• Electronic chart version of the ice chart
  facsimile broadcast standards or GMDSS NAVTEX
  standards

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• Ice Service interoperability - Seamless customer
  support
• Are not mutually exclusive objectives

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Objectives for Technical Workshop

• Education
• To understand better what we mean by
  interoperable data formats
• To appreciate the benefits
• Decision
• Where we want to go with interoperable data
  formats
• What can we achieve within our own organizations
  and what can we achieve together
• Commitment to Action
• To develop action plans, that we can all commit
  to, for going forward 

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Outline for Technical Workshop

• Education
• Ice in ECDIS
• Tim Evangelatos Doug OBrien - Canadian experts
  on ECDIS and IHO under contract to the Canadian
  Hydrographic Service
• Sea Ice Presentation for ECDIS
• Yuri Scherbakov AARI expert on ECDIS
• Interoperable Data Formats in Production Systems
• Dave Denault CIS expert on Geographic
  Information Systems
• Brian Scarlett ESRI contractor at CIS

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Outline for Technical Workshop

• Decision
• Lunchtime discussions
• Plenary discussion
• Breakout Groups
• Operational Ice Information Producers
• Standards Enforcers
• Commitment to Action
• Breakout group reports
• Workshop Report

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Questions?