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<p>Dear Lists,<br>
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<p>Interoperability and Standardization for Marine Sensors
and Observation Data - Dick Schapp (MARIS) exemplifies the
need for standardization in the marine community in his
keynote for the Geospatial Sensor Web Conference 2016.</p>
<p>52°North is proud to announce Dick Schaap as the keynote
speaker for the upcoming Geospatial Sensor Webs Conference
2016 [1]. Dick Schaap is the managing director of MARIS
B.V., a company developing web based services and
applications in the fields of oceanographic data
management, geographical interfaces and websites with
complex information structures. He is a longtime
strategist in the domain of ocean and marine data
management and has extensive experience in the
coordination of a range of EU projects on marine data
management infrastructures. As the technical coordinator
of SeaDataNet [3] - the pan-European infrastructure for
ocean and marine data management - and of the Ocean Data
Interoperability Platform (ODIP [4]) with participation of
leading data management experts from EU, USA, Canada and
Australia, he acutely aware of the need for
interoperability and standardization in the marine
community. He is also heavily involved in the definition,
development and implementation of the European Marine
Observations and Data Network (EMODnet [5]) and its range
of thematic data portals.</p>
<p>Registration for the Geospatial Sensor Webs Conference is
now online [6]. The conference is free of charge and in
English.</p>
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[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://52n.org/conference">http://52n.org/conference</a><br>
[2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.maris.nl/">http://www.maris.nl/</a><br>
[3] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.seadatanet.org/">http://www.seadatanet.org/</a><br>
[4] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.odip.org/">http://www.odip.org/</a><br>
[5] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.emodnet.eu/">http://www.emodnet.eu/</a><br>
[6] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://52n.org/conference/registration">http://52n.org/conference/registration</a><br>
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Best regards,<br>
Ann Hitchcock<br>
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font-size:10px; color:#626250;">Ann Hitchcock<br>
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48155 Muenster, Germany<br>
tel. +49 (0)251 396371 -21<br>
fax: +49 (0)251 396371 -11<br>
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