IMDIS 2021 is entirely online.

Programme:

Services: Data services and tools in ocean science

• Services and tools for discovery, visualisation, dissemination (considering the potentially diverse range of stakeholders/end users) and education


• Services and tools for data processing and data analysis


• Services and tools for data ingestion


• Services and tools for data management (data reformatting, quality checks, data access…)


• Virtual Research Environment (VRE), Cloud environment


• European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and Blue Cloud pilot


• Open data for the marine domain


• Federated search

Tech: Technical developments for marine information and data management

• Standards for data interoperability (e.g. INSPIRE, vocabularies, data formats, Sensor Web Enablement, Semantic Web, Linked data)


• Metadata/Data FAIRness


• Quality assurance


• Data citation, DOI, PID and data versioning


• Monitoring and tuning


• Best practice


• Data centre/repository accreditation/certification (e.g. IODE Quality Management Framework, CoreTrustSeal, etc.)

Infra: Marine environmental infrastructures for observation data (data management and access)

• Operational oceanography metadata/data systems


• Physical and bio-chemical metadata/data systems


• Geophysical and geological metadata/data systems


• Fisheries and biological metadata/data systems


• Cross infrastructure activities (e.g. ENVRI, EuroSea... )


• Marine pollution related (contaminants, litter,...) metadata/data systems

Products: Data products, information and knowledge

• Quality Check procedures and data consistency assessment for historical data collections for climatic studies


• Machine learning, Artificial Intelligence and application to data collection and data quality check


• Regional and global data collections and marine data aggregations


• Validation of data products and uncertainty estimation


• Distribution and publication of data products


• Data products for multiple stakeholders/end users including the Blue Economy/Blue Growth/Maritime Spatial Planning


• Data integration and evaluation of data portal solutions


• Transfer of technologies and knowledge


• Systems and products for outreach and dissemination, including Ocean Literacy


• Metadata analysis


• Data (and metadata) rescue and integration into data centre systems