The paper Putting meaning into NETMAR the open service network for marine environmental data describes the development of two semantic resources for discovery and validation of Web Processing Services and to support interoperability of coastal web atlases. The paper addresses both the formal representation as well as the tools and methods used to develop these semantic resources.

Yassine Lassoued, CMRC, presented the NETMAR semantic framework and CSW Mediator at EUROGI 2013. See the slides here.

Adam Leadbetter, BODC, presented the NERC Vocabulary Server V2.0 and the NETMAR Oceanography Thesaurus at
AGU 2012, 3-6 December, San Francisco, USA. See the poster here.

Declan Dunne, CMRC, and Adam Leadbetter, BODC, presented NETMAR at the EuroICAN workshop in Ostend, Belgium, on 26 November. Presentations:

• International Coastal Web Atlas (ICWA) prototype Version 3
• NETMAR Service Chaining Editor
• ICAN & Web 3.0

Stein Sandven, NERSC, presented NETMAR at the Arctic ROOS annual meeting in Sopot, Poland, on November 7.
See the slides here.

Adam Leadbetter, BODC, presented work done on extending vocabularies at the SeaDataNet2 Plenary Meeting in Rhodes, Greece, 19 - 21 September 2012.
See the slides here.

The NETMAR semantic cookbooks have been announced in ICAN's second official newsletter, where you will also find information about other marine and coastal zone web-GIS developments.

The new cookbook on Semantic Data Delivery and Processing Services is now available. Take a look to see how you can add semantics metadata to your data delivery and data processing services, using open sources tools and standard OGC protocols.

We have revised our Semantics Cookbook. Check it out and learn about how to use ontologies to implement powerful data and service discovery in your system.

Jorge de Jesus, PML, led the preparation of a Web Processing Service Tutorial for GEOSS Providers. It's available from the GEOSS Best Practices Wiki: WPS Tutorial. (Use the left hand menu to navigate through the tutorial.)