Workshop: Data Network Building
Transnational data harmonization and requirements (based on the BaltSeaPlan data model) were subject of detailed discussions within the pilot cases in PartiSEApate. This workshop brought together INSPIRE contact points as well as the various maritime data providers throughout each country, in order to explore possible a process for making data networks compatible with each other.
Title: Workshop on data network building for MSP in the Baltic Sea
Date: 15-16 October, 2013
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Host: German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH)
Contact: Bettina Käppeler
Downloads: Agenda, Summary report
Background:
- The Baltic Sea marine environment is a highly complex system regarding physical, hydrological, chemical and biological parameters, but also functionality with regard to the ecosystem or human activities.
- Knowledge and availability of data are often not as detailed and comprehensive as for terrestrial areas, gaps and uncertainties have to be dealt with and available data often is scattered and not comparable on a national level but even more so at the regional level.
- Maritime Spatial Planning needs a broad though also quite specific knowledge of the marine space and environment to be able to analyse former, current as well as future human activities, assess actual or potential conflicts and cumulative environmental impacts of certain activities and to identify areas best suited or needed for specific activities or nature conservation.
- On a national as well as pan-Baltic scale a multitude of potential data sources and providers for Maritime Spatial Planning exists.
- For a consistent and sustainable Maritime Spatial Planning for the Baltic Sea a transnational, comprehensive, efficient and focused infrastructure is needed, which links those data sources, providers and users and offers access to adequate data sets and tools required and useful for Maritime Spatial Planners.
- How this data network and data MSP infrastructure for the Baltic Sea could and should look, be set up and be managed will be discussed at this dedicated PartiSEApate workshop.
Objectives:
- Introduce MSP principles and Baltic Vision for the use of marine space.
- Get an overview on activities at a pan-Baltic scale and related initiatives on European level.
- Learn about interests of maritime spatial planners, data holders and providers, problems and attitudes towards MSP.
- Explore and discuss the feasibility of developing a Pan-Baltic data network.
- Identify main organisational, legal, technical and content related issues for a Pan-Baltic MSP data network to be addressed and respective framework to be developed
Presentations
- PartiSEApate – Introduction to the project and stakeholder workshops in particular - Anda Ruskule, BEF
- Development of the Evidence Base for Marine Planning in England - Duncan Hume, MMO
- Dutch developments on marine data management - Dennis van Schaardenburg, RWS
- Transnational MSP data links: The Lithuanian – Latvian – Russian trans-boundary experience - Nerijus Blazauskas, CORPI
- Examples of European and national initiatives to ‚deliver and boost‘ maritime and marine knowledge and datain relevance for Maritime Spatial Planning - Kai Soetje,BSH
- HELCOM: Data infrastructure and management - Manuel Frias Vega, HELCOM
- Findings and recommendations from BaltSeaPlan with regard to spatial data for MSP and a Baltic MSP spatial data infrastructure - Bettina Käppeler, BSH
- Spatial Data Infrastructure (GDI) at the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) with a side glance to the CONTIS data model - Jürgen Schulz Ohlberg, BSH
- The Shelf Geo-Explorer – Marine Geology for MSP and Offshore Projects - Manfred Zeiler, BSH
- Continental Shelf Information System (CONTIS) - Miriam Müller, BSH
- The German Marine Data Infrastructure (MDI-DE) - Johannes Melles, BSH
- Polish data policy (and other comments) - Juliusz Gajewski, MIG
Recommended reading
BaltSeaPlan Project’s “Recommendations for the development and implementation of a data exchange network and infrastructure for Maritime Spatial Planning and Management purposes in the Baltic Sea Region” (taken from BaltSeaPlan Report #20)
