The iMarine data infrastructure aims to foster “innovation” by providing an open platform and a variety of services that are designed to become an integral part of the organized procedures of a wide community of practitioners addressing the challenges of fishery management and the conservation of our marine resources.
Donatella Castelli, CNR-ISTI, Italy, iMarine Project Director
The main objective of iMarine is to bring together scientists from different backgrounds and create synergies between these groups by sharing data, tools and expertise, through a shared infrastructure. The iMarine Board will ensure close communication between participants from different disciplines, and that the needs of different communities are adequately covered.
Edward Vanden Berghe, OBIS & iMarine Board member, USA
I expect that i-marine will facilitate the access of scientists, stakeholders, fishery managers and the interested public to a wide range of marine and fishery data and thus contribute to a transparent and well-informed decision-making process for the conservation and sustainable use of marine resources
Johanne Fischer, FAO
I expect that iMarine will contribute enormously to create an infrastructure of linked open data for fishery management.
Johannes Keizer, FAO & iMarine Board member, Germany
I have high expectations that through the iMarine e-infrastructure initiative and open data infrastructure we can strengthen our collaborate on fisheries management and conservation of marine living with scientists, practitioners, managers and fishers through more effective and efficient sharing and access to the anticipated common knowledge, information, data and services ecosystem.
Karl Morteo, FAO & iMarine Board member, Italy
The iMarine data infrastructure will respond to the need for working more efficiently in meeting today’s Ecosystem Approach policy making and management challenges, will distribute effectively roles considering the complexity and diversity of expertise, and will establish partnerships for efficient collaboration among various specialized communities.
Marc Taconet, FAO & iMarine Board Chair, Italy
iMarine should facilitate a more efficient and collaborative use of both knowledge based and technology based resources to the benefit of the community of scientists, managers and policy advisors working in the Marine Ecosystem management domain.
Neil Holdsworth, ICES & iMarine Board member, Denmark
iMarine aims to identify, capture, store, and share different data sources and formats that are produced and processed by fisheries' management and marine ecosystems' conservation stakeholders. This will take place over an infrastructure that will allow interconnection and collaboration with other relevant data infrastructures.
Nikos Manouselis, Agro-Know Technologies & iMarine Board member, Greece
iMarine aims to provide a cutting-edge technological platform, friendly and fully transparent for the use of a wide variety of specialist communities, that by coming together in a single “community of practice” that by sharing data and knowledge within the iMarine infrastructure, can collectively develop tools and information to advance the application of an ecosystem approach for the integrated management of the Ocean
Patricio Bernal, Coordinator IUCN High Seas Initiative
I hope that our group, with its broad-based set of competences, can help guide the iMarine developers and their iMarine Board, on their very ambitious undertaking, improving the understanding on user needs and expectations and monitoring informally the progress towards meeting such expectations
Serge Michel Garcia, iMarine Advisory Council Member
The iMarine Board will provide insights on user needs and recommendations on current practices, standards and vocabularies, quality assurance and archiving procedures, dissemination and copyright/IPR issues, and will investigate partnerships and synergies in order to improve fisheries data streams.
Ward Appeltans, Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) & iMarine Board member, Belgium
My expectation is that the iMarine project will demonstrate new approaches on data sharing and knowledge development, utilising and optimising the use of internet. The iMarine Board governs and efficients the liaison with related biodiversity informatics initiatives and advises the iMarine management on request, securing the integrity of the project progress.
Yde de Jong, NCB – Naturalis & iMarine Board member, The Netherlands