The purpose of the Commission is to promote international cooperation and to coordinate programmes i

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Why ?

• The purpose of the Commission is to promote
  international co-operation and to co-ordinate
  programmes in research, services and capacity
  building, in order to learn more about the nature
  and resources of the ocean and coastal areas and
  to apply that knowledge for the improvement of
  management, sustainable development, the
  protection of the marine environment, and the
  decision making processes of its Member States

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If IOC Oceans

• Then IOC has a key role to play as a global
  knowledge broker involving gathering, transfer,
  dissemination and sharing of information, data,
  knowledge and best practices related to
  Oceanography

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IODE 1960-today

• Network of 60 oceanographic data centres
• Global ocean data archives
• Now From delayed mode to delayedoperational
• Now from centralized to decentralized
• Now from mainly physical oceanography to
  physOcchembiocoastal
• Now close cooperation with GOOS and JCOMM
• IODE 4 decades of experience for todays
  tomorrows requirements

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Information?

• 1998 good lesson lots of interest from general
  public for the Oceans
• WWW lots of information on Oceans BUT hard to
  find
• IOC site good specialized sites, poor central
  site
• National vs Regional regional presence?

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Ocean Research Services

• Target Users decision makers, private sector,
  educational sector, general public
• Do we reach them at national, regional,
  international level?
• Are they aware of IOC?
• Do they know where to get Ocean data and
  information?
• Are our national research and management
  institutions IOC-aware and do they promote IOC?

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Problems

• IOC visibility at national level is low
• Fragmentation at national, regional and
  international level
• Users get lost in the mountain of information
• Who does what and where questions get only
  partial answer

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Solution?

• IOC HQ is not source of information
• Member States are sources of information
• At IOC HQ bring it all together and provide
  gateway to sources portal
• Linkage with other sources UN Ocean Atlas

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What to do?

• Develop a Vertical Portal (vortal)
• linking people specialized online communities
  of practise
• Single subject area or subject focus
• Wide variety of content and from multiple sources
  (aggregation) from community sources
• Interactive services forums, polls,
• Dynamic near real-time, news value
• Multiple languages
• ? Note difference with horizontal portal (Yahoo
  wide scope). Vertical portal narrow scope

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Portal Services

• Information Locator (directory and search
  engine) OceanPortal
• Experts Directory OceanExpert
• Regional OceanPortals

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Service 1 Linkshttp//www.oceanportal.org

• The OceanPortal Information Locatorhigh-level
  directory of Ocean Data and Information related
  web sites. Its objective is to help scientists
  and other ocean experts in locating such data
  information
• Directory (category browser) AND index (search
  content of all sites)

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Why?

• Try web tools like Google, Yahoo,

• Search GOOS
• Google 72,800 pp
• Yahoo 43 sites (or 51,000 pages)
• flooded by results or irrelevancy high

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OceanPortalInformation Locator

• Launched 21 July 01
• 3251 sites
• gt500,000 docs indexed

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Categories

• Abstracts/Bibliographies
• Associations/NGOs
• Commercial Equipment/Services
• Data catalogues
• Expertise
• IODE/World Data Centres
• Meeting/Event Calendars
• Ocean Libraries

• Online Data Servers
• Projects/Agencies/Institutions
• Protected Areas/Aquariums
• Publications/ Communications
• Research Vessels
• Tools References
• Topical Sites/ Education

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Try it out!
Fast To the point Advanced functions
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Are you there?

• Are your national institutions and programmes in
  the OceanPortal Information Locator? No? then
  submit!
• Initially focus on ocean data and information
  sources. Now also topical sites
• Question Should we expand scope (beyond data and
  information sources)?

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Service 2 Expertshttp//www.oceanexpert.net

• The OceanExpert.net (Global Directory of Marine
  (and Freshwater) Professionals) is a database,
  developed and maintained by the IOC, containing
  information on individuals involved in all
  aspects of Marine or Freshwater Research and
  Management. It is intended to be a tool for
  scientists, policy makers and anyone who needs to
  contact a marine or freshwater professional. A
  'Professional' is defined as a person who,
  through his/her job, has expertise related to the
  research and management of the aquatic
  environment.

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OceanExpert.net

• Launched in 1997
• Currently 13107 experts recorded
• Re-engineering by July 2002 adding institutional
  records
• Question Are you there?
• Question Are your national ocean experts in
  OceanExpert.net?

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Service 3 Regional OceanPortals

• A lot is happening in our regions related to the
  oceans but how can people know about it?
• Need single point of entry to ALL information and
  for many audiences promote participation by as
  many stakeholders as possible

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Regional OceanPortal why?

• Empower communities in IOC Member States
• Provide virtual space for sharing knowledge,
  news, expertise, views on the Oceans in a
  regional context

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Objectives

• The UNESCO/IOC ocean (sub-)portal seeks to
  provide access to information and data on all
  aspects of ocean/coastal research and management
  for the benefit of various communities such as
  policymakers, scientists and the general public,
  as well as to provide an education space for
  specific subjects and target audiences.
• The project will focus on
• (i) regional ocean portals to offer in-depth
  information and data services targeting local,
  national and regional audiences, in multiple
  relevant languages especially targeted at Africa,
  Latin America, and Western Pacific
• (ii) a subject-specific and region-focused ocean
  sub-portal, the HAB-SEA sub-portal, will promote
  education and public awareness and will provide
  research information to assist in the mitigation
  of harmful algal blooms on human health,
  fisheries and aquaculture in South-East Asia.

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Stakeholders?

• Stakeholders?
• Research Community
• Decision Makers
• Private Sector
• Education Sector
• General Public NGOs
• They will be knowledge provider AND knowledge
  user
• Promote communication within and between
  stakeholders

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Talking to different audiences

• Multiple paths for multiple audiences
• Different audiences have different interests and
  different knowledge so content needs to be
  grouped differently
• Multiple languages
• Want to reach audience? Speak their language!

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Getting there

• UNESCO Cross-cutting initiatives
• Project UNESCO Knowledge portal
• Education portal
• UNESCO/IOC Ocean portal
• Global Heritage portal
• Digi-arts portal

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UNESCO/IOC Ocean portal

• Regional Portals
• African OceanPortal
• Caribbean and South America OceanPortal
• Subject Portal
• HABSea portal

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Status

• Project approved US 400,000 allocated for
  2002-2003
• Regional OceanPortal activities
• Software installed (March 2002)
• First Editorial Meeting of the IOC OceanPortal
  Project held in Paris, 13-17 May

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Starting now

• Africa http//www.africanoceans.net
• Caribbean and South Americahttp//www.portalocean
  ico.net

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Different regions, different concept
Africa Caribbean
South America
audiencegeographysubject
geographythemes
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Management?

• Africa
• Chief Editor Dr Desiderius Masalu (Tanzania)
• Assistant Chief-Editor Ms. Regina Folorunsho
  (Nigeria)
• 5 Editors (startup)
• Mr Jorge Banze (SEACAM, Mozambique)
• Mr Mika Odido (ODINAFRIFA, Kenya)
• Mr Clive Angwenyi (Kenya)
• Dr Julius Francis (WIOMSA, Tanzania)
• Dr Yacouba Sankare (ODINAFRICA, Côte dIvoire)

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Management

• Caribbean South America
• Chief Editor Mr Rodney Martinez (Ecuador)
• 4 Editors (startup)
• Mr Marfiu Rodriguez (Ecuador)
• Mr Samuel Rivera (Colombia)
• Mr Eduardo Zambrano (Ecuador)
• Mr Giovanni Daneri (Chile)

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Linkage UN Ocean Atlas

• The Atlas is an information system designed for
  use by policy makers who need to become familiar
  with ocean issues and by scientists, students and
  resource managers who need access to underlying
  data bases and approaches to sustainability

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Integration
IOC programmes
IOCsite
DECENTRALIZED MODEL
Member States
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End Objective

• A global ocean related portal enabling users
  to access information from a wide variety of
  sources linking institutions in Member States as
  well as other UN agencies, NGOs etc.

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• Thank you