As outlined in the Description of Work for Work Package 4, “the ODIP workshops and the ODIP prototypes as well as the resulting feedback will provide the ODIP partners with an insight into possible common standards and/or interoperability solutions. However implementing these solutions in practice might have significant implications for the operational systems. Their adoption may require modifications throughout the existing system from the portal to the distributed data providers”.

This document describes the “Final strategic analysis” which has been conducted to identify the possible impacts and potential solutions for the adoption of the prototype interoperability solutions and the associated standards by the regional data infrastructures. This analysis is based upon the “Interim strategic analysis” documented in deliverable D4.1 Interim strategic analysis report and the status of the prototype development tasks as reported at the 4th ODIP workshop which took place in Liverpool, UK on 20th - 23rd April 2015.

Appraisals of the three cross-cutting topics which have been addressed during the ODIP workshops are also included in this document. These topics, which are data citation and publication, vocabularies and data ingestion, were identified by the ODIP partners as being of fundamental importance for all of the ODIP development tasks and also of direct relevance for the wider marine community.

Finally this report includes a proposed action plan to address some of the issues that have been identified by the impact analysis. It is also suggested that this plan could potentially be used as part of the road map for those agencies responsible for the development and operation of the regional marine e-infrastructures.