The goal of the SmartFish portal is to provide a portal to access information and data scattered in 3 independent source information systems.

1. SmartFish
Chimaera portalChimaera portal
Yann Laurent
FAO Fisheries Department

2. Chimaera Presentation Outline
• SmartFish project Background
• Harmonization workshop
• Toward a Regional Fisheries Portal
SmartFish Chimaera portal
• Portal hosting plan
• Services from iMarine connectCube
• Enriching iMarine services
Chimaera iMarine collaboration
The results and summary
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3. Goal: provide a portal to access information and
data scattered in 3 independent source
information systems
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4. SmartFish Chimaera Portal
SmartFish Background
Harmonization workshopHarmonization workshop
Toward a regional portal
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5. SmartFish project Background
• SmartFish: EU funded project to strengthen national
and regional fishery/aquaculture policy and strategy
frameworks
– Support participating countries to fulfill international commitment
towards responsible fisheries improve food securitytowards responsible fisheries and to improve food security
• SmartFish Result 1: “Enhance Regional and National
Fisheries and Aquaculture Strategies and Policies”
– Component 1M3 aims to “improve knowledge and information in
support to fisheries management processes “
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6. Harmonization Workshop
(june 2012)
• Aimed to address harmonization issues between the
4 main identified Information System or approach
containing data of interest of management plans
supported by the project:supported by the project:
– WIOFish: a regional knowledge base on West Indian Ocean
Fisheries (http://wiofish.bluebox.co.za/)
– FIRMS: an international knowledge base including resources
from West Indian Ocean (http://firms.fao.org)
– StatBase: a statistical database containing fishery statistics
provided by West Indian Ocean countries
(http://statbase1.smartfish.d4science.org/statbase/)
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7. Harmonization Workshop
(june 2012)
• To identify common concepts shared across the
systems/approach including common reference data and
classification as common standard for the Regional
Information System.
• To identify needs for mapping concepts, defining
gateways between the concepts and reference data not
matching between the 4 systems.
• To bring together the previous analysis to propose
options for a Regional Information System
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8. Harmonization Workshop
(june 2012)?
The 3 fisheries
Information
Systems
concepts and
their relationships
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their relationships
have been analyzed
and summarized
The floor is prepared
to exploit
these structure
of information

9. Toward a Fisheries Regional Portal
• HW Recommendations:
– Creation of a simple portal (with simple web technologies)
– Embedding iMarine web semantic tools to offer complex
functionalities to the portal: being able to exploit data in afunctionalities to the portal: being able to exploit data in a
seamless way with very little data exchanges
Not yet another centralized database
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10. Toward a Fisheries Regional Portal
• Achieved so far:
– Prototype 1: proof of concepts
– Prototype 2: enhanced functionalities and contents with
involvement of the community – user validationinvolvement of the community – user validation
• Now in the process of making the portal public
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11. Chimaera iMarine collaboration
Portal hosting plan
Services from iMarine connectCube
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Services from iMarine connectCube
Enriching iMarine services

12. iMarine as hosting infrastructure
• Provide portal hosting solution: sustainability and
security
• Provide StatBase hosting solution addressing KMFRI
servers’ instabilities issuesservers’ instabilities issues
• Now in the process on formalizing Service
Agreement Letter with iMarine
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13. Services from iMarine connectCube
• Indexing and annotation process taking into
consideration each source IS data access and sharing
policies
• Creation of search indexes and search services to• Creation of search indexes and search services to
exploit these search indexes
• Provide a list of results to the user query
the portal embeds these services in a user friendly
way to guide the user in his data search
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14. Semantic services
Indexing – annotation
Chimaera hosting
-> search
Stat
Base
Semantic services to support federating data portals
Example of Chimaera, SWIO fisheries regional portal
FIRMS
WIO
Fish
App. hosting
Base
Other
DB
Content is accessed and
indexed according
to each IS data access
and sharing policies
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15. Semantic services
Chimaera hosting
Example of Chimaera, SWIO fisheries regional portal
enriched with geographic information
-> get maps
Scalable
solution
iMarine GIS
catalogue
Associating geo-data
Other GIS
catalogue
VLIZFAO
GIS catalogues
Content is associated according
to each geographic data access
and sharing policies
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16. Enriching iMarine services
• In the process of embedding iMarine web semantics
tool in Chimaera: development of libraries to exploit
the search result
• Working closely with iMarine developers to integrate
the JS libraries to exploit the search result as part of
the gCube to offer a complete solution (from data
indexing to result exploitation)
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17. Conclusion
• Proof of concept validated: this model could
be extended to other databases and
information systems (Regional or national)
• Address the issue of data exchanges but can• Address the issue of data exchanges but can
face problems given restricting data access
and sharing policies
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