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

Due to the public health situation linked to COVID-19 pandemic, it was decided to organise the IMDIS 2021 conference entirely online. Every session will have its own connection link, available only for registered and logged in participants. The last 3 minutes of every talk are reserved for Q&A, we will use the Zoom chat function for that.

Registration is free but mandatory to access the conference (https://imdis2021.seadatanet.org/).

For more information, do not hesitate to contact imdis@seadatanet.org