OGC Federated Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure Pilot: Call for Participation (CFP)

The Federated Marine Protected Area Data stage will focus on the Baltic Sea / North Sea and will demonstrate improved access to Marine Protected Area (MPA) data for a wider variety of end users outside of the traditional MSDI domain. These users may include fishers, resource extractors, utilities, tourists, recreational boaters, etc. This will be accomplished using open standards and employing the FAIR principals; make data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.

This stage of the initiative will focus on the development of the following deliverables:

Additionally, the components developed in this stage will be packaged into a series of Docker containers to be utilized by the sponsor for up to a 3-year period.

This is the second stage and will identify, examine, and expand upon existing data sets to give them greater fidelity, mobility, and versatility. This will go beyond marine protected areas and open the examination to a broader set of data and standards. These include other data sets and standards that could be utilized to develop a firmer more holistic view of a region, such as terrestrial data, meteorological data, earth observation data, etc.

This stage of the initiative will focus on the development of the following deliverables:

The data being utilized will be examined for cross-domain connection points and a methodology will be developed for how to connect existing data standards and outside marine domain standards. This methodology could be through usage of various OGC API building blocks, ingestion using OGC API – Processes, digestion using OGC API – Environmental Data Retrieval, or other accessory data connection models. A demonstration for these combined data structure could be one of several different scenarios:

This third stage will run in parallel to the entirety of the initiative and focus on the development of the IGIF-MSDI Maturity Roadmap, plus supporting principles and guidelines where appropriate. The roadmap will provide a strategic or top-level, fully comprehensive roadmap of the different stages and effective level of maturity an MSDI goes through from initial creation, to fully developed, and and the potential areas to explore and enhance an existing MSDI. It will seek to complement and not duplicate the existing ecosystem of UN-GGIM and IHO resources, but will synergize and leverage them, via a straightforward guidebook for simplifying early steps in the joint IGIF-MSDI space. Much of the initial analysis and construction could be developed through question, answer, and examination of the sponsors’ MSDI and what considerations the sponsor is taking to expand their MSDI. An additional data gathering effort of MSDI providers may be needed to fully form the maturity roadmap. Anonymization of responses is available via OGC if institutional privacy is desired for participation, such as limiting identification to geographic region and generalized level of MSDI development. In appreciation for fulsome engagement by responders, basic insights may be requested in writing regarding their state of MSDI maturity with respect to their geographical region (or more broadly if not possible). All insights are anonymized and regionalized (where sufficient responses have been received), with any verbal insights subject to reasonable endeavors in the contect of meeting the project milestones.

Additional inspection will need to occur of existing roadmap models, such as IHO C17, as well as investigation on how the various MSDIs have been constructed and what an appropriate and efficient order of operation for MSDI construction would be, this should also consider any governance, technological, and public impacts involved. A benchmarking test should occur with a non-sponsor or a sponsor intentionally removed in development of the maturity score. Ideally this benchmarking would occur with multiple organizations; a well tenured MSDI, a middling tenured MSDI, and a newer MSDI.

This stage only has one deliverable D004 IGIF-OGC FMSDI Maturity Roadmap Engineering Report which summarizes the findings. This will outline the Roadmap and the various references and other source materials that could be utilized to inform the development of a Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure. This deliverable will be authored by a dedicated resource from the sponsoring organization.

Email Rollin Phillips <rphillips@ogc.org> the PDF Proposal prior to December 10, 2021