Caspian Sea research information
One of the important output of the project is that CASPINFO will provide access to high quality, up-to-date marine, environmental, and research (meta-) data and information. At this stage of the project this information is still being collected by the partners. This information will be stored in (meta) databases.
In a later stage the online CASPINFO data & information service will serve as a portal for the relevant, available marine environmental and industrial (meta-) data and provide search options for the users to easily find access to the information sources.
Interoperability and harmonisation with other European systems are key conditions, following international standards is a "must". Therefore CASPINFO system developments are closely related to developments in European leading marine and oceanographic projects like SeaDataNet and SIMORC. The formats of the the metadatabases as well as the exchange formats and procedure will be taken as basis, e.g.:
- EDMERP - European Directory Marine and Enviromental Research Projects
- EDMO - European Directory Marine Organisations
For these directories an ISO19115 compliant exhange format (incl XML and Schema) is available and will be used.