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News
November 2013:
Alfonso Pagá García joins the MIDA team on a 6 month Leonardo
da Vinci vocational training programme. He will create,
edit and upload new GIS layers, update existing layers and complete the associated metadata.
Congratulations to Liz O' Dea on her marriage to Andres Springborn.
Liz was the main developer of MIDA in the period 2003-2007.
She now works on Washington State's Coastal Atlas.
October 2013:
Kathrin Kopke is invited to speak about the MIDA and ICAN
at the SMARTSkills
2013 Postgraduate Workshop on Access to Research Funding and Marine Data.
June 2013:
Ned Dwyer, Kathrin Kopke and Yassine Lassoued travelled to
Victoria, Canada to represent the CMRC at the ICAN
(International Coastal Atlas Network) 6 workshop and the
CoastGIS
conference. The MIDA team was involved on several levels at
this meeting. Ned chaired the ICAN workshop, Yassine presented
the ICAN portal to demonstrate atlas interoperability and
Kathrin led discussions in workshop breakout sessions. Both
Ned and Kathrin presented during the CoastGIS conference.
Dawn Wright (ESRI), Andrus Meiner (EEA), Lucy Scott (ASCLME),
Simon Claus (VLIZ), Terry Curran (IOS), Todd Hallenbeck (WCGA), Ned Dwyer (CMRC) and Kathrin Kopke (CMRC) during a break at ICAN 6.
March 2013:
ICAN has been formally accepted as an official Project of
the International Oceanographic Data & Exchange (IODE)
committee of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
(IOC). This is testament to the leadership and work carried
out by the MIDA team over the years, with the CMRC being a
founding member of ICAN.
April 2013:
The MIDA team held a series of consultations with the CMRC
research teams in order to find out how changes on the MIDA
could make the resource more relevant to our researchers.
The valuable input of CMRC researchers will lead to modifications
on the MIDA in terms of data and information requirements
and provision as well as specifics of the technology update
as part of the MIDA upgrade via the SmartAtlas technology.
December 2012:
Since the launch of the MIDA in 2006,
we have successfully captured a returning user community and attracted new visitors
with an average of 800 visits each month. These numbers doubled
in 2011 and 2012, showing that interest in the MIDA continues
to grow.
November 2012:
SmartAtlas
has been developed by the CMRC as an OpenSource web mapping
solution that allows coastal atlas users deploy a coastal
atlas quickly. SmartAtlas is being adopted by ODINAFRICA in
order to implement the national Atlases of the African Coastal
and Marine Atlas (ACMA). MIDA will soon be upgraded with SmartAtlas
technology. Development of SmartAtlas was supported by IOC-IODE.
The ACMA uses CMRC's SmartAtlas technology.
Ned Dwyer and Declan Dunne of CMRC's MIDA team attended the
EuroICAN workshop held before Littoral 2012 in Ostend, Belgium.
This was an occasion to get updates on coastal atlas development
and use activities of the various ICAN members from Europe and
Africa.
October 2012:
Daragh Kervick joins the MIDA team for a 9 months in the context of the National Internship Scheme JobBridge.
She will create, and upload new GIS layers, updating the associated existing Metadata.
May 2012:
Miguel Castillo joins the MIDA team on a 6 month Leonardo
da Vinci vocational training programme. He will create,
edit and upload new GIS layers, update existing layers and complete the associated metadata.
February 2012:
David Roig joins the MIDA team on a 6 month Erasmus
Practices vocational training programme. He will create,
edit and upload new GIS layers, update existing layers and complete the associated metadata.
Aug/Sep 2011:
Ned Dwyer, Kathrin Kopke, Declan Dunne and Yassine
Lassoued represented the CMRC and the MIDA at ICAN
5, which specifically explored the potential of Coastal
Web Atlases for coastal and marine spatial planning. Ned Dwyer
chaired the overall ICAN workshop, which engaged 43 participants
from 15 countries, representing 36 organisations with multiple
areas of scientific and technical expertise. The MIDA team
helped organise the workshop and was actively involved in
all thematic sessions and mini workshops.
Declan Dunne (CMRC) and Kathrin Kopke (CMRC) are delighted to catch up with Liz O' Dea (Washington State Department of Ecology), who left the CMRC and Ireland in 2007 to return to the States.
June 2011:
Hector Barco joins the MIDA team on a Leonardo
da Vinci scholarship and is creating, uploading, updating
GIS layers as well as maintaining metadata records.
December
2010:
Kathrin’s daughter Saoirse
is born on the 30th of December.
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to announce the arrival of the Next Generation to the
MIDA team and wish all the best to Kathrin and family. |
Diego
del Villar Guerra leaves the MIDA team, which he joined
in July 2008 as part of a 6 month EU Leonardo
da Vinci vocational training program. Diego has since
the completion of the training program, provided invaluable
technical support to the MIDA team, while working on other
CMRC projects as a GIS analyst. Furthermore he successfully
completed a research MSc, which involved seal
tracking using electronic tags.
Diego will be missed as a colleague and friend and the
MIDA team wishes him all the best in Denmark, where he
is going to do a PhD in Seatrout tracking at the DTU Aqua. |
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November 2010:
Ivan Portugues Molla joins the MIDA
team on a 6 month Leonardo
da Vinci vocational training programme. He will create,
edit and upload new GIS layers, update existing layers and complete the associated metadata.
Sarah Twomey joins the MIDA team to keep the information pages
up to date as well as to add new pages to the MIDA Infoport.
October 2010:
Rory Scarrott joins the MIDA team
to provide technical support to MIDA interns.
September 2010:
Ned Dwyer, Yassine Lassoued and Declan
Dunne travel to London to represent MIDA at the ICAN
European and African Session during Littoral as well as
Ned actually hosting the session.
August 2010:
MIDA publications:
Dwyer,
N., Kopke, K., Cummins, V., O’Dea, E. and Dunne, D.,
2010 Ireland.
Edited by: D. Wright, E. Dwyer and V. Cummins in Coastal Informatics:
Web Atlas Design and Implementation, 105-130 pp, Information
Science Reference, IGI Global.
O'Dea, L, Dwyer, E, Cummins, V, Dunne, D., 2010 Harmonising
Marine Data Exchange in Ireland. Edited by: D. Green, in Coastal
and Marine Geospatial Technologies. In series: Coastal Systems
and Continental Margins, Vol. 13. Springer. 451pp, ISBN: 978-1-4020-9719-5.
July 2010:
All the best to Ned and Carmel from
the MIDA team!
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Ned Dwyer
and Carmel Sharkey are getting married in France.
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November
2009:
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Ned
Dwyer, Yassine Lassoued and Kathrin Kopke travelled to
ICAN
4: Formalizing the Network, Engaging the Mediterranean
to represent MIDA. This event took place at the Adriatico
Guest House, UNESCO International Centre for Theoretical
Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy from the 16th to the 20
of November in 2009.
The event was held in association with the European Environment
Agency (EEA)/Environmental Information and Observation
Network (EIONET) Workshop on Maritime and Coastal Information
Systems, which took place from the 18 to the 19 of November
2009.
The MIDA team was involved on several levels at this meeting.
Ned co-chairing the ICAN workshop with Dawn Wright (Oregon
State University), Yassine reporting on progress concerning
the prototype to demonstrate atlas interoperability proof-of-concept
and Kathrin presenting at the Mini workshop for CWA users
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The MIDA
team is catching up with friends at the ICAN 4 (from
left to right Ned Dwyer - CMRC, Tanya Haddad - Oregon
Coastal Management Program, Liz O'Dea - Washington Department
of Ecology and Kathrin Kopke - CMRC)
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Paula Domingo returned to Spain after
completing her 6 month Leonardo
da Vinci vocational training programme.
May 2009:
Ned is attending the European
Maritime Day stakeholders conference in Italy, where he
will participate in a workshop entitled: How
can atlases help to organise and promote the seas?.
April 2009:
Paula Domingo has joined the MIDA team
on a 6 month Leonardo
da Vinci vocational training programme. She will work in
the areas of creating, editing and preparing various GIS layers
for MIDA as well as completing metadata. Diego del Villar Guerra
is now carrying out a Masters in UCC which involves tracking
seals using electronic tags.
November
2008:
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Ned Dwyer and Kathrin Kopke
attended the Littoral
2008 conference in Venice representing MIDA as part
of the International
Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN).
Ned facilitated and chaired the ICAN
workshop at this conference, which aimed to
introduce ICAN to those with an interest in coastal
atlases, to present the relevance of ICAN activities
in a European context, to encourage participation of
new members and in general to raise the profile of ICAN.
Kathrin presented the ICAN outreach poster and gave
a talk on coastal web atlas users drawing on her experience
with MIDA.
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ICAN outreach
poster presented at Littoral 2008
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July 2008:
Diego del Villar Guerra is joining the
CMRC under the Leonardo
da Vinci vocational training programme. He will work for
MIDA in the areas of creating, editing and preparing various
GIS layers as well as completing metadata.
Ned Dwyer, Declan
Dunne, Yassine Lassoued and Kathrin Kopke travelled
to Copenhagen, Denmark to represent MIDA in the ICAN
(International Coastal Atlas Network) 3 workshop
and the EEA conference on coastal atlases. The MIDA
team was involved on several levels at this meeting.
Ned co-chaired the ICAN workshop with Dawn Wright (Oregon
State University) and Yassine presented the first prototype
to demonstrate atlas interoperability proof-of-concept.
The MIDA team continues to work on atlas interoperability
issues to incorporate more coastal atlases.
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Ned Dwyer
(CMRC) and Dawn Wright (Oregon Staate University ) co-chairing
the ICAN 3 workshop
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March 2008:
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Iban Ameztoy Aramendi
is returning to Spain after completing a twelve month
Leonardo
da Vinci scholarship and continuing to work for MIDA
and the CMRC for another year. MIDA benefitted greatly
from Iban's input into
acquiring, processing and
managing data. |
February 2008:
Ned Dwyer presented MIDA at the United
Nations International Oceanographic Data and Exchange (IODE)
Workshop on Coastal Atlas requirements organized at the
IOC Project Office for IODE, Oostende, Belgium. The meeting
investigated ways to improve interoperability between atlases
and what can be learned from various atlas projects to help
with the development of the African and Caribbean Marine atlases.
January 2008:
MIDA and the Oregon
Coastal Atlas (OCA) test Atlas interoperability proof of
concept, which is in progress since summer 2007. The results
will be presented at the next ICAN workshop in copenhagen, July
2008.
December 2007:
Liz O'Dea is leaving
the CMRC and returning
to the United States.
Liz joined the CMRC in 2002 and worked on the MIDA
design, implementation, GIS data integration, web
development and management of the MIDA project.
She is one of the "parents" of the MIDA
and will be missed as a friend and brilliant colleague.
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November 2007:
Kathrin Kopke is becoming the new data
manager of the MIDA.
July 2007:
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Val
Cummins, Liz O'Dea, Ned Dwyer, Iban
Ameztoy Aramendi, Declan Dunne and Yassine Lassoued are
travelling to Corvallis (USA), to the
2nd Transatlantic Atlas Workshop of the International
Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN).
This workshop explored Coastal Atlas Interoperability.
MIDA and the Oregon
Coastal Atlas (OCA) are getting involved to develop
and test a prototype for Atlas interoperability. |
| The
MIDA Team with participants and organisers of the 2nd
Transatlantic Atlas Workshop in the States. |
December 2006:
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Juan Arevalo Torres
returned to Spain after working with MIDA and the CMRC
for almost two years. His hard work with acquiring, processing
and managing data to go into MIDA was a huge asset to
the project.
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September 2006:
Natasha Faucher joined the MIDA Team
on a 6 month internship to work with GIS data and web content
for MIDA. Natasha's placement is through the Marine
Institute International Internship Programme of Memorial
University of Newfoundland, with whom the CMRC has a Memorandum
of Understanding.
July 2006:
The
official launch of MIDA took place on
July 25th at University College Cork.
It celebrated four years of development and data collection
and the beginning of MIDA's next phase of integrating
new technology, tools and information. Speaking at the
launch were Prof. Gerard T. Wrixon, President, UCC; Joe
Breen, Head of Aquatic Services, Environment and Heritage
Service, Northern Ireland; and Valerie Cummins, Director,
CMRC.
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Official
press release ~
~ Photos of the launch
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| The MIDA Team: (l-r) Iban
Ameztoy, Ciara Herron, Carlo Brondi, Valerie Cummins,
Ned Dwyer, Liz O'Dea, Declan Dunne and Juan Arévalo. |
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During
the week of the launch, the CMRC hosted a workshop entitled
Potentials and Limitations of Coastal Web
Atlases, the first of two Trans-Atlantic
Workshops on Coastal Mapping and Informatics.
This workshop brought together coastal mapping experts
from across Europe and North America. Attendees included
representatives from UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency,
Coordination Centre for Integrated Coastal Zone Management
of Belgium, European Environment Agency, NOAA Coastal
Services Center, Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
University of California San Diego, Virginia Institute
of Marine Science and Oregon State University. More information
can be found on the Trans-Atlantic
Workshops website. |
| Attendees took part in a
Coastal Atlas Showcase where they could see and discuss
atlases with developers. |
June 2006:
Carlo Brondi, ERASMUS student, joined
the project on a three month unpaid GIS internship.
March 2006:
Iban Ameztoy Aramendi joined the project
on a twelve month Leonardo
da Vinci scholarship as part of the GIS placements
initiative of the University
of Girona in Spain.
January 2006:
Juan Arévalo attended Environ
2006 in Dublin on the 27-29 January and gave a presentation
on data preparation challenges for the MIDA.
December 2005:
Kristell Koutel has finished her placement
working on MIDA. From January she will be working as a GIS Specialist
at QS4IT,
a GIS Company in Cairo (Egypt). Thank you Kristell, and best
of luck!
November 2005:
Ciara Herron has been funded to work
on MIDA by the Environment
and Heritage Service, Northern Ireland. Ciara will be based
in the Centre
for Coastal and Marine Research at the University
of Ulster, Coleraine.
Juan and Liz presented a poster
entitled A
Web GIS Portal for Integrated Coastal Information:The Marine
Irish Digital Atlas at the FP6-funded ECO-IMAGINE
conference held in Nice, France.
October 2005:
Ned attended the IRLOGI
organised GIS Ireland 2005 conference on October 18 and presented
a paper
on data collection aspects of MIDA.
August 2005:
The MIDA team wishes to recruit a person,
to be based at the University of Ulster in Coleraine, to work
on sourcing and preparing data sets of relevance to Northern
Ireland for inclusion in the atlas. This person will also contribute
to the expansion of the information resource within the atlas
by researching, writing and collating lists of existing resources
about various topics. Other potential tasks include exploring
how MIDA can be integrated with other organisations’ web-based
GIS efforts through a distributed network. The closing date
for applications is September 2nd 2005. Full details of the
application procedure are available on the University
of Ulster's website.
July 2005:
Liz attended CoastGIS
2005 in Aberdeen on the 21-23 July and presented a paper
to a large international audience.
June 2005:
June 30: The Environment
and Heritage Service of Northern Ireland is funding a person
to work on collection and integration of Northern Ireland relevant
data sets in the atlas. The position will be based at University
of Ulster, Coleraine.
June 28: A user
workshop was hosted by the Centre for Coastal and Marine Research
at the University of Ulster, Coleraine.
May 2005:
May 31: User workshops
have been held in Cork and Maynooth since atlas launch. These
have been attended by over 40 people. Feedback on the atlas
has been very positive. Users have also given us lots of ideas
on how to improve the atlas. The next workshop will be held
in Coleraine on June 28th.
May 23: Kristell
Coutel will be working with the MIDA team for the next 10
weeks. She is carrying out a work placement as part of her
studies in GIS and Geomatics at the GR.ETA institute in Avallon
in Burgundy in France.
May 11: The atlas
is now live online! The MIDA and its new web site were launched
today after a long but extensive redesign of our offline prototype.
The interactive map page in the new MIDA is a demonstrator,
which continues to be a work in progress. We welcome your
feedback and will take all comments
into consideration for current or future development.
April 2005:
April 27: Due to
circumstances beyond our control, the MIDA is unable to be
launched today. We are working hard to ensure it is made available
shortly. Thank you for your patience, and check back soon!
The April 8: MIDA goes live on April 27th!
After much work on atlas design, database development, program
testing and data collection over the last number of months,
we will be putting Version 1.0 online with over 50
coastal and marine datasets. The MIDA website also
gets a fresh new look to mark the launch, so mark the date.
Dídac Perales í Giménez is returning
to Spain after finishing his year working with MIDA on a Leonardo
da Vinci placement. He made significant contributions
in GIS data collection and preparation for the atlas. Thank
you Dídac, and best of luck!
January 2005:
Juan Arévalo Torres joined
the project on a five month Leonardo
da Vinci scholarship as part of the GIS placements
initiative of the University
of Girona in Spain.
December 2004:
A meeting with SeaZone
took place at the CMRC to discuss inclusion of their products
in the MIDA.
October 2004:
Dr.
Dawn Wright, Professor of Geography and Oceanography at
Oregon State
University, spent two weeks visiting the CMRC. A number
of the meetings which took place related to the various overlapping
research areas, in particular with the MIDA and the Oregon
Coastal Atlas.
September 2004:
Val attended the Littoral
conference in Aberdeen, Scotland on the 20-22 September and
presented a paper
on the educational aspects of MIDA.
Liz and Ned presented MIDA at the Geodata
Conference in Belfast. They also met with Ordnance
Survey Northern Ireland to discuss inclusion of OSNI products
in MIDA.
July 2004:
Liz and Ned attended a meeting at the
EPA in Co.
Wexford to discuss inclusion in the atlas of data layers generated
as part of the Water
Framework Directive.
May 2004:
Liz delivered a keynote speech entitled
Improving
Access to Coastal Information: Metadata in the Marine Irish
Digital Atlas at the FP6-funded ECO-IMAGINE
conference held in Seville, Spain.
March 2004:
Liz attended the Oceanology
International Conference in London on the 17-19 March and
presented a paper
to a large international audience.
Dídac Perales i Giménez joined the project on
a twelve month Leonardo
da Vinci scholarship as part of the GIS placements
initiative of the University
of Girona
February 2004:
An article on the project was published
in the UK's Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture
Science (CEFAS) Coastmap
News Winter 2004 edition (issue
5).
An article giving an overview of the project was published in
the Spring 2004 edition of "GIS Ireland: The Newsletter
of IRLOGI".
Meeting in Cork with members of the steering committee from
The British
Oceanographic Data Centre and the UK Inter
Agency Committee on Marine Science and Technology (IACMST).
January 2004:
A meeting was held at the University
of Ulster in Coleraine to discuss the potential for extending
the atlas to include datasets from the whole island. Given the
positive response to the atlas project, appropriate resourcing
is being discussed with a number of bodies.
Liz gave an oral presentation on the project at the ‘ENVIRON
2004’ conference held in the University of Limerick.
December 2003:
Liz gave an oral presentation on the
project at the Environmental Science Day held at UCC.
November 2003:
The prototype system was demonstrated
at the Marine Institute's offices in Dublin to a group of potential
data suppliers and users from a number of public and private
bodies.
October 2003:
The MIDA team attended the CoastGIS
2003 Conference in Genova, Italy on the 16-18 October. Ned
presented their paper
to a large international audience in the Palazzo Ducale.
September 2003:
The MIDA team submitted a paper
that they will present at the CoastGIS
2003 Conference in Genova, Italy, 16-18 October. The conference
is the Fifth International Symposium on GIS and Computer Cartography
for Coastal Zone Management, which is a collaborative initiative
of the International
Geographical Union's Commission on Coastal Systems and the
International Cartographic Association's Commission
on Marine Cartography.
8 June 2003:
Liz attended METOC's
Marine GIS Seminar in London to learn more about their marine
data services, as well as other marine GIS developments in Britain.
Speakers included Wyn Williams of the UK Hydrographic Office,
Juan Brown from the British Oceanographic Data Centre, and David
Green, Chairman of the AGI Marine and Coastal Special Interest
Group.
23 May 2003:
The CMRC office moved its location from
the Old Presentation Building on the UCC campus to a lovely
refurbished
office on the Naval Base at Haulbowline, in Cork Harbour.
15-16 May 2003:
Liz presented a poster on MIDA at the
EPA's “Pathways to a Sustainable Future” conference
in Dublin.
21 March 2003:
The MIDA team met with people from
the Marine
Institute's Data Centre to discuss mutual data warehousing
efforts.
10 February 2003:
The Geological
Survey of Ireland have launched a web mapping site to display
their Seabed Survey maps.
20 January 2003:
Ned Dwyer and Liz O'Dea presented a
poster at the ENVIRON 2003 Conference in Galway on January 8-10.
Project Timeline
2007/2008/2009/2010:
CMRC is maintaining and updating the MIDA. For news updates
check page above.
25 July 2006: Official
launch of the MIDA at University College Cork. The launch will
take place during a transatlantic workshop on Coastal
Mapping and Informatics entitled "Potentials and Limitations
of Coastal Web Atlases", hosted by the Coastal and Marine
Resources Centre.
April 2006: A tutorial
on how to use the atlas is now available. Most MIDA development
efforts in the last year have been put into data collection,
processing and adding layers to the atlas. See the list
of layers that have been added since October 2005.
May/June 2005: Collect
user feedback through workshops in Cork, Maynooth, Galway and
Coleraine -- let us know if you are interested in taking part.
Feedback will also be collected via the MIDA website.
April 2005: Final
prepartions and testing for the website launch of the atlas
prototype on April 27.
March 2005: New website design is in progress
by Lillian
Fidler Design.
January 2005: Preparation of data layers for
Version 1.0 continues. Redesign of the information pages. MIDA
website to get a new look for launch!
October 2004: Database implementation for metadata
and information elements is completed. Testing underway. Layer
selection and final preparation for Version 1.0 taking place.
July 2004: Database design for metadata and
information elements is completed. Atlas redesign based on this
database design has begun. Priority dataset collection and preparation
is well advanced.
April 2004: Restructuring atlas framework based
on prototype, incorporating feedback from user group meetings.
January 2004: Continued data collection and
processing, focussing on priority data layers.
December 2003: Prototype demonstrator completed
and presented to an audience in Dublin.
September 2003: Discovery metadata XML file
design and Beta version of metadata online collection tool complete
(the tool is not yet live on the Web). Prototype Demonstrator
development is well advanced.
June 2003: Initial development of the metadata
database structure and metadata online collection tool.
April 2003: Beginning of data collection process,
starting with inventory of CMRC owned data sets.
February 2003: Development of MIDA prototype
demonstrator is underway.
January 2003: Review of metadata
standards complete.
November 2002: Hardware and software systems
were chosen.
September 2002: The MIDA team began its three
year project.
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