Fisheries and Aquaculture Resources Management

1st meeting of the OBIS Governing Board

Start: 29/04/2008 End: 29/04/2008
Event locationTown: Rome
Country: Italy

For more information: Ocean Biogeographic Information System

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Presentation of D4Science at OBIS governing board meeting on 29 April 2008

OBISThe Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) recently held its board meeting in FAO headquarters, Rome, Italy.

FAO presented an overview of the D4Science project and the "Integrated capture information system - An opportunity for strengthening Partnerships between Fisheries & Biodiversity communities".

The presentation was followed by an open discussion about possibilities offered by grid technologies and about ways of leveraging synergies through future collaboration between FAO and OBIS.

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1st D4Science user communities meeting

Start: 06/03/2008 End: 06/03/2008
Event locationTown: Rome
Country: Italy

Agenda of the 1st D4Science user communities meeting

10:00 - 10:15 Opening remarks

10:30 - 11:00 Diligent/ImpECt background / requirements

11:00 - 11:30 Diligent/ImpECt demo

11:30 - 11:45 Coffee break

11:45 - 12:15 Present current country profiles and underlying data

12:15 - 13:00 Discuss points of collaboration

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch