Valeria Pacheco
Junior Researcher
Portuguese Institute of Sea and Atmosphere
Portugal

Biography
Valeria Pacheco is from Porto and currently she lives in Lisbon. She graduated in computer engineering in 2010 from ISCTE-IUL (Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa). She started her professional career in banking and insurance industry where she worked as analyst, tester and developer. She took a post-graduation in Information Systems and Knowledge management. Valeria also have experience in giving classes to undergraduates. Currently, she is working on her thesis related with Information Systems and she is working has a Junior researcher at IPMA (Portuguese Sea and Atmosphere Institute) where she is providing IT support to one of IPMA’s internal projects.

Abstract
Building an IT infrastructure to support marine SDI : IPMA case study

Co-Author: Jose Santos, Directorate General for Territorial Development of Portugal

The Portuguese Institute for the Sea and Atmosphere, IPMA, I.P.’s mission is to promote and coordinate scientific research, technological development, innovation and services on the sea and atmosphere. This Institute hosts several interdisciplinary projects: providing weather, oceanographic, sea biological and climate data, forecasts and warnings towards safeguarding people and property within the national territory. IPMA has responsibility to tackle issues of data availability to third parties, public and private entities and some of its main challenges are the handling of large quantity of produced data, format diversity and intra-departmental dispersion. A partnership agreement between IPMA , I.P. and the Portuguese Task Group for the Extension of the Continental Shelf (EMEPC), more specifically on the implementation of SNIMAR project, is presently serving as a trigger to address these issues. The SNIMAR project Preparation of integrated geographic information for marine and coastal water management – predefined project of the EEA Grants, aims to develop a Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure (MSDI) to increase capacity of assessing and predicting environmental status in marine waters. SNIMAR will be developed in accordance with the Directive INSPIRE and based on open source technologies, thus ensuring interoperability and compatibility between geographic data and services. This presentation outlines IPMA’s contributions to the SNIMAR project and the procedures used to identify structure and create relevant data classification in compliance with the adopted metadata profile (SNIMar). To reach these goal methods to normalize and harmonize IPMA's marine spatial data are required, thus, the definition of its data policies. Besides wanting to adopt SNIMar profile, IPMA also intends to improve its levels of monitoring and control of the production process, reason why IPMA has the necessity of collecting and treat the information.The proposed methodology will serve as a case study that will be applied later on to the Institute's remaining core areas.