Special Session 1

The session is aimed at presenting the latest updates on data system networking and interoperability methodology in ocean parameters measurements (metadata, vocabularies, ISO and OGC applications, data models), interoperability (Virtual Research Infrastructures, Interoperability forms, Web services, Quality of Services, Open standards), data circulation and services (quality assurance / quality control, preservation, network services).

Presenters are strongly encouraged to demonstrate how their efforts will benefit their user communities, facilitate collaborative knowledge building, decision making and knowledge management in general, intended as a range of strategies and practices to identify, create, represent and distribute data, products and information. Datasets and products should be free, open accessible and integrable from European Marine Data infrastructure and initiatives (e.g. EMODnet, CMEMS, SeaDataNet, ICES, etc).

Antonio Novellino Biotechnology and Bioengineering, MSc Biomedical Engineering, Research Manager at ETT (gruppo SCAI). From 2008 to 2010, he served the European Commission, JRC – IHCP as a senior researcher. Since 2011, he is the ETT Research Manager. He served on the board of Consortium Tecnomar (about 100 companies working on maritime and environment technology, www.consorziotecnomar.com); the techno-scientific board of Consortium TRAIN (innovation in energy and transport management, www.consorziotrain.org). He serves on the techno-scientific board of the Ligurian Cluster of Marine Technology DLTM (www.dltm.it) and the board of Consortium TRAIN. He is member of the EuroGOOS DATAMEQ group and contributes to several EuroGOOS Task Teams for advising (http://eurogoos.eu/) on operational oceanography data management procedures and standards. He is member of the SOOS DMSC (South Ocean Observing System Data Management Steering Committee) and DOOS DMTT (Deep Ocean Observing System Data Management Technical Team). He serves on the EMODnet Steering Committee, the EMODnet Technical Working Group. He serves the Expert Team on WIS Centres (ET-WISC) and Task Team on Data Centres (TT-DC). He is co-author of scientific publications and he participates as reviewer for scientific journals for Elsevier and Frontiers. He is the EMODnet Physics coordinator and CMEMS DU/MDS deputy coordinator, deeply involved in EMODnet Data Ingestion and in the EMOD-PACE Partnership for China-Europe project and was/is involved in a series of national and EU projects in the field of oceanography and marine data management (SCHeMA project on FP7 Ocean of Tomorrow; JERICO-NEXT on H2020; AtlantOS on H2020 BG8, SeaDataCloud on H2020, EuroSEA on H2020, Jerico S3 on H2020, SO-CHIC on H2020, NAUTILOS on H2020, EMODnet Baltic Sea Check Point on EMFF/EASME, INCREASE CMEMS Service Evolution on CMEMS, LAMBDA CMEMS Service Evolution on CMEMS).