Project Status - Active
Start Year: 2009
End Year: 2012
Funding Body: EU FP7 Research Infrastructures

Geographic Area: Europe
Local Study Area:

Project Co-Ordinator: Colin Graham, British Geological Survey, UK
CMRC Contact: Gerry Sutton

Website: http://www.geo-seas.eu/

Abstract

Geo-Seas is implementing an e-Infrastructure of 26 marine geological and geophysical data centres, located in 17 European maritime countries. Geo-Seas will contribute to e-Infrastructure development in the areas of Scientific Data (coherent management and access to data) and Standards (data management, metadata, formats, delivery). Users will be able to identify, locate and access pan-European, harmonised and federated marine geological and geophysical datasets, and derived data products held by the data centres through a single common data portal. It will expand the existing SeaDataNet marine and ocean data management infrastructure to handle marine geological and geophysical data, data products and services, creating a joint infrastructure covering both oceanographic and marine geoscientific data. The Geo-Seas partnership is assuring the archival and long-term stewardship of data for re-use by new applications in many fields, thus preserving the availability of unique observational data, which can be difficult or impossible to re-create. The aims of Geo-Seas are aligned with European directives and recent large-scale framework programmes on global and European scales, such as GEOSS and GMES, EMODNET and INSPIRE.