IMDIS 2024 - Bergen (Norway), 28-30 May 2024 International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems

The Aim

The IMDIS cycle of conferences has the aim of providing an overview of the existing information systems to serve different users in ocean science. It also shows the progresses on development of efficient: infrastructures for managing large and diverse data sets, standards, interoperable information systems, services and tools for education.

The Conference will present different systems for on-line access to data, meta-data and products, communication standards and adapted technology to ensure platforms interoperability. Sessions will focus on infrastructures, technologies and services for different users: environmental authorities, research, schools, universities, etc.

Sessions

Session 1: 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

Session 2: 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.)

Session 3: 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. ENVRIplus, EuroSea... )
• Marine pollution related (contaminants, litter,...) metadata/data systems

Session 4: 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