http://www-wram.slu.se/

The workshop aims to bring together researchers and research groups working or planning to work with fish and wildlife telemetry data to

• gather human competence on WRAM related data throughout Scandinavia and Europe,
• make an in-depth inventory over existing local database solutions in Scandinavia and Europe,
• explore the possible technical and legal challenges and needs to integrate local solutions in a common international open source solution,
• build an international network of researchers and research groups who are willing to participate by sharing data and cooperation on the analysis tasks,
• discuss possible organizational constellations, and
• lay the foundation for an application to the Swedish Research Council for the 2009 application period for a full scale implementation of the WRAM database network.

Prelim. program

Day 1

• Presentation of WRAM: Who? What? When?
• Presentation of participants and their current WRAM related work
• Technical approach - databases, networks, access
• Legal approach - Data sharing contracts, data ownership, publications

Day 2

• Group discussion in small groups:
  • Technical and legal preconditions and needs
  • Financing
  • Organizational issues
• Presentation of group discussions
• Plenary discussion
• Outlook: Future networking & financing, and applications

Costs

Participation in the workshop is free.

Travel and lodging are arranged and paid by the participant.
We plan for a common dinner in the evening of September, 24^th.

Registration

We kindly ask you to register online for the participation in the workshop not later than 2008-08-20 to enable us to plan the detailed program.