BENGUELACC OIH Meeting 2022 04 28

Meeting time

• 2022-04-28 @ 12:00 UTC
• 60 minutes in length

Meeting Location

• Jitsi meeting (audio or optional video)
  • connect directly in your browser (no installation required) by clicking: https://meet.jit.si/OceanInfoHub
  • or use the "Jitsi Meet" app on Android or iOS
    • room name: OceanInfoHub

Meeting Agenda

• Agenda1: introductions
• Agenda2: background on ODIS
  • https://book.oceaninfohub.org/
• Agenda3: background on BCC Geodata Portal
  • https://geodata.benguelacc.org
• Agenda4: potential steps for connecting BCC with ODIS
• Agenda5: schedule next meeting

Action Items

Action Item	Assigned to

Log

• Attendance: Anja (BCC), Zukile (BCC), Mike (ODINAfrica), John (ODINAfrica), Pier-Luigi (OIH), Doug (OIH), Jeff (OIH)
• agenda: background
  • Anja: admin who setup the GeoNode portal: https://geodata.benguelacc.org/
  • Zukile:
    • want system to accommodate many sectors
    • want data to be useful
    • some private data
    • end-of-June publish the portal/system
  • PL:
    • OIH is a way to harvest
    • schema.org based
    • contains 6 main patterns: https://book.oceaninfohub.org/thematics/README.html#thematic-profiles
      • Experts and Institutions
      • Documents
      • Spatial Maps
      • Projects
      • Training
      • Vessels
  • Doug:
    • discussing the ODIS 3-step process the expose your catalogue layers through schema.org, index, and then discovery
      • 
  • Jeff:
    • exposing your catalogue layers through JSON-LD gives 2 big benefits:
      • that record/dataset will be discoverable through the upcoming "Google Dataset Search" tool: https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/
      • your layers will be shared through ODIS and discoverable & queryable by other nodes (ocean data centres) around the world
  • Zukile:
    • discoverability is important
• potential steps for connecting BCC with ODIS