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Data Systems

World Register of Marine Species (WoRMs)

Taxonomic database (taxon names, distributions, specimens, ...)

+50 installations based on species or geographical context

IMIS - The Integrated Marine Information System

Metadata on people, institutes, references, and datasets, describing the marine landscape.

+60 installations based on projects, topics or institutes

Photo gallery

A collection of images & movies related to different projects & websites, accessible via their own URL's.

+100 installations based on projects, topics or institutes.

IMERS

Stores measurement data based on water, sediment, suspended matter and biota samples

+10 installations based on projects Output framework: PHP

MarinePass

Central authentication system

Wiki

Wikipedia installation

+10 installations based on topic or project

EMODnet biology

Data portal and view occurrence and other data types

ETN

European Tracking Network-Data platform, featuring

+800,000,000 detections

LifeWatch Belgium

Develops and operates a number of essential and complementary infrastructure components (species information backbone, observatory, and habitat mapping)

ScheldeMonitor

Geoviewer for a Flemish-Dutch knowledge and information portal on research and monitoring in the Scheldt estuary.

Marine Regions Gazetteer

Standard, relational list of geographic names, coupled with information and maps of the geographic location of these features.

Sea Level Station Monitoring Facility

Monitor the status of real time sea level stations.

Active stations tracked :
2024: 1249
2023: 1234

LifeWatch
RShiny Data Explorer

Expose all lifewatch data types

LifeWatch
Buoys

Capture real-time data from logger on buoys

(Thornton, Spuikom, Meetnet Vlaamse Banken (MVB), ...)

OBIS Annotated List

Scientific names originating from OBIS not matched to WoRMS

OpenAIS

Set of tools that are aimed at reducing the time, technical skills, and domain expertise required to derive meaningful insight from raw vessel tracking data.

Cores Repository Index (CRI)

Manages data about cores drilled out of the sea. Users can view core data and add metadata (CRUD operations).

All get routes are accessible to everyone, but modifications require using authentication via JWT.

Vocab Server

A service where users or applications can query for details about a specific vocabulary

Networks

Open Geospatial Consortium At OGC, we unite a global network of leaders across government, business, research institutions, startups, and the geospatial community.

EUROBIS The European Node of the international Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) - publishes distribution data on marine species, collected within European marine waters or collected by European researchers

The Flemish Research Data Network (FRDN) Develops the preconditions necessary to motivate and enable researchers from Flemish research performing organizations to exchange and reuse (FAIR) research (meta)data. This contributes to the integrity, quality, and efficiency of research and thus to accelerating innovation in society.

The Blue Cluster In 2019, a cooperation agreement was concluded between the VLIZ and The Blue Cluster to promote cooperation in the areas of project operation, internationalization of research, scientific support, joint events and communication, as well as around the representation of the VLIZ in the management bodies of The Blue Cluster.

EOSC Association The EOSC Association works to advance Open Science in the service of creating new knowledge, inspiring education, spurring innovation and promoting accessibility and transparency