The Integrated Global Observing Strategy Partnership (IGOS-P) established, in 1999, a thematic approach to the implementation of the IGOS. Recognising that other themes will emerge, the “Ocean Theme...

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Used at Inter-sessional working group for updating the IOC Strategic Plan for Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (2012-2015)

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This document contains some of the highlights of the JCOMM activities since JCOMM-I The Assembly will be invited to (i) Note the activities of and progress made by JCOMM; (ii) Recognizing that the ...

Data formatting is an important component of data Management technologies, which provides the structural basis for data sets ‘ creation as well as for software interfaces between data sets and ...

The necessity to access greater quantities of marine data to support a broad range of maritime activities has been increasing rapidly over the past few years. Larger quantities of data combined with a...

The SGXML Terms of Reference (TOR) for the 2002/2003 period are as follows: TOR 1. Create, evaluate and discuss intersessional work on SGXML parameter dictionary including the population of the dicti...

The need to develop capacity in collection, analysis and distribution of data and information from the oceans and all seas was one of the components of Chapter 17 Agenda 21 of UNCED. This was to be do...

OdinPubAfrica: Development of an African repository for electronic publications in marine science and oceanography Realisations in 2004 – Planning of 2005 The goal of OdinPubAfrica is to develop...

After an introductory paragraph this document contains all decisions adopted by the Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange at its eighteenth session as follows: Sectio...

The IOC Global Oceanographic Data Archaeology and Rescue (GODAR) Project was established by the IOC in 1993. The goal of the project is to expand the historical database of ocean profile-plankton dat...

Since its inception in 1993 as an IOC project, the GODAR Project continues its progress in locating, collecting, and disseminating in electronic form, historical ocean profile and plankton data that a...

The distributed nature of the G3OS data and information systems is best served by a single entry for users. This central source, the Global Observing Systems Information Center (GOSIC), provides basic...

The Global Ocean Surface Underway Data (GOSUD) Project is an Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)programme designed as an end to end system for data collected by ships as they traverse the...

Two important events had a direct influence on the establishment of the Group of Experts on Biological and Chemical Data Management and Exchange Practices. The first was the International Workshop on ...

IODE/IGOSS Support of GOOS The foundation for supporting much of the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) data management requirements are already in place in the form of the Intergovernmental Oceano...

The attached Action Sheet was extracted from the IODE-XVIII Summary Report. A first review of the progress with action items was made during the 2006 IODE Officers Meeting, held between 6 and 7 Februa...

During the intersessional period significant progress took place on various IODE elements that further promoted its general objectives. This report provides a brief overview of the major activities an...

The Sixteenth Session of the IOC Committee on IODE was attended by nearly 100 participants from 37 countries and a number of partner organizations. The Committee recommended specific support to the ...

The IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange held its Eighteenth Session (IODE-XVIII) at the Kursaal, Ostend, Belgium between 26 and 30 April 2005. The Session was at...

The IODE Programme must now meet the new challenges related to ocean data and information management. The IODE community has to lead the way in coordinating access to marine data and information to su...

The JCOMM Management Committee, during its First Session (Geneva, Switzerland, 6-9 February 2002) recommended that a draft resolution be prepared for the 35th Session of the IOC Executive Council call...

Presented at the 11th Session of the IOC Committee on IODE, New York, 9-18 January 1984

Report for Argentina

The conduct of science in Antarctica is the corner stone of the Antarctic Treaty System. Antarctic science is interdisciplinary in character, multinational in execution, and globally relevant. The sci...

The IODE marine data management capacity building program has, up till now, emphasized the use of existing, large-scale data archives as principal sources for constructing national data collections. ...

Oceanographic data management in Canada is coordinated by the Marine Environmental Data Service (MEDS) located in Ottawa, Canada. MEDS has broadened its scope to include biological and chemical data a...

The document provides information on the progress in the implementation of the IODE Ocean Data Portal including the Ocean Data Portal version 1 status and also a vision and high?level design decisio...

The OceanTeacher website and CD-ROM publication have proven to be powerful and flexible tools for marine data and information management training. There are two segments of OceanTeacher: marine data m...

IODE OFFICERS MEETING 2006, SUMMARY REPORT, IOC Project Office for IODE, Ostend, Belgium, 6-7 February 2006

This Document provides an overview of implementation of all actions requested by the 19th Session of the IODE Committee, held in Trieste, Italy between 12 and 16 March 2007. The 2007 Session of the IO...

The Marine Environmental Data Service (MEDS) of Fisheries and Oceans Canada was accredited as the RNODC for drifting buoys by the IODE in January 1986. As such, MEDS archives all drifting buoy data di...

Service Hydrographique of ICES was accredited as the RNODC - Formats by the IODE in 1983. An important function of the RNODC was to distribute information concerning data formats and supporting codes ...

The Marine Environmental Data Information Referral Catalogue (MEDI) is a directory system for datasets, data catalogues and data inventories developed by IODE. The IODE Steering Group for MEDI was est...

The coastal zones in the world are exposed to continuously increasing environmental stresses: pollution, eutrophication, erosion problems which are amplified by steadily growing economic and recreatio...

One of the major challenges faced by the IODE Secretariat has always been to keep the IODE community informed about programme progress both in terms of execution of the IODE Session work plans and in ...

During the intersessional period, the training component of IODE was marked by continuous development and regional expansion. As it was recommended during IODE-XV, the regional approach laid the found...

The history of the IODE programme’s web presence goes back to September 1995 when the IOC’s web site was opened as one of the first UNESCO web sites. As the site was developed by the Ocean Servic...

The Expert Team on Data Management Practices (JCOMM-I, 2001), in close collaboration with IODE and CBS subsidiary bodies and related experts, shall: (a) Develop, recommend and implement principles a...

The Marine Environmental Data Inventory (MEDI) is a directory system for datasets, data catalogues and data inventories within the framework of the IOC's International Oceanographic Data and Informat...

The Marine Environmental Data Inventory (MEDI) is a catalogue system for marine datasets within the framework of the IOC's International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) programme. ...

Two Sessions of the IODE Group of Experts on Marine Information Management (GE-MIM) were relevant to the IODE-XVI/IODE-XVI inter-sessional period: The Fourth Session (Athens, Greece, 17-19 January 199...

Sixteenth Session of the IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE), Lisbon, Portugal, 30 October – 9 November 2000

The Ocean Data and Information Network for Africa (ODINAFRICA) brings together marine related institutions from twenty five (25) Member States of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNES...

The utilization of available data and information for management and exploitation of the marine environment and resources is one of the major challenges facing African coastal states. The success of d...

Progress Rreport 2003-2004 ODINCARSA was set up primarily as a mechanism for assessing the current and potential state of development of national data centers and to create the means for mutual capac...

The Ocean Information Technology Project was conceived to be “a major, concerted effort with an efficient and effective, comprehensive data and information management system as the goal. We are seek...

The Fifth Session of the GSC received an updated Prospectus on the proposed Ocean Information Technology Pilot Project (OIT). The Committee recognised that the goals were ambitious but that it was an ...

The IODE has supported the creation of a global index of Internet websites containing ocean data and information, called OceanPortal. It currently holds 3400+ records, but it is linked to approximatel...

The IODE has supported the creation of a global index of Internet websites containing ocean data and information, called OceanPortal (OP).It currently holds 5000+ records in eight super categories/251...

The objective of OceanTeacher is to provide training tools for Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange. These tools are used during IODE Training Courses but can also be used for self training and...

The spirit of this [data sharing project] was to jump in and try it out as a learning experience for a year following the POGO meeting in La Jolla. We chose to try DODS (Distributed Ocean Data Server...

The Ocean Observations Panel for Climate and its predecessor examined the usefulness of surface salinity data in the context of climate change detection. They stated that "At high latitude, sea surfac...

The IOC’s International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) is established to enhance marine research, exploitation and development by facilitating the exchange of oceanographic data ...

The advancement of science is unthinkable without continuous and efficient exchange of data and information. There is no point in developing scientific programmes and in undertaking scientific researc...

The last 10 years have witnessed a revolution in the handling of both data and information through the widespread availability of personal computers. Increasingly, data and information about data coll...

The Sixth Session of the IODE Group of Experts on Marine Information Management(GE-MIM) took place 31 May-03 Jun 1999 in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. After a successful intersessional period of thr...

During the intersessional period, the Group of Experts on RNODCs and Climate Programmes (hereafter referred to as the Group) could not find an opportunity to convene a meeting, due to the lack of time...

GE-MIM presented a report at IODE-XVII in December 2002, which highlighted achievements of work done and intended actions till 2004. The 8th Session of GE-MIM was held at CSIRO Marine Research Laborat...

World Data Center for Oceanography - Silver Spring

World Data Centre for Oceanography - Obininsk

World Data Center for Marine Geology and Geophysics - Moscow, Russian Federation

World Data Center for Oceanography - Tianjin, China

The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO is one of the United Nation’s co-sponsoring partners for the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA). This is an abstracting and ind...

Over the last intersessional period the GTSPP Steering Group has met at one-day sessions in conjunction with the WOCE Data Products Committee meetings. This allowed most members to attend without incu...

This report will describe the activities of the Chairman of the IODE Committee over the intersessional period. It will also focus briefly on the developments and achievements in the IODE program and a...

This document contains the reports on the activities of the National Oceanographic Data Centres (and Designated National Agencies), Responsible National Oceanographic Data Centres and World Data Centr...

This document contains the reports on the activities of the IODE Regional Co-ordinators for the period February 1996 – July 2000 (IODE-XV to IODE-XVI inter-sessional period) as received by the IOC S...

15.1 Group of Experts on Biological and Chemical Data Management and Exchange Practises (GEBCDMEP) [E. Vanden Berghe] 15.2 Group of Experts on Marine Information Management (GEMIM) [M. Tapaswi] 15....

In view of the on going review of IODE, the planned development of an IOC data management strategy and the preparations of the JCOMM strategy it is important that the IODE data and information managem...

This report will examine the existing IODE program and will look at the strengths and weakness of its past activities. The paper will also suggest changes to IODE in order to improve the effectivenes...

After an introductory paragraph this document contains all decisions adopted by the Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange at its seventeenth session as follows: Se...

The regional subsidiary bodies of the IOC have been developed since the middle 1970s and in particular during the 1980s to foster intergovernmental co-operation in marine sciences. The basic ideas are...

(polled 29 October – 3 December 2004) In view of the ongoing review of IODE, the planned development of an IOC data management strategy and the preparations of the JCOMM strategy it is important t...

Over the last two decades, the number and complexity of international cooperative programmes has increased. We are just completing WOCE, and JGOFS, but there is the IGBP, CLIVAR, GOOS, GCOS and GTOS a...

The WMO Executive Council, at its Forty-eighth Session (Geneva, June 1996), strongly endorsed the developing and strengthening co-operation between WMO and IOC in a number of areas, and specifically "...

OceanExpert started as the Global Directory of Marine (and Freshwater) Professionals (GLODIR) in 1997 after the IODE Group of Experts on Marine Information Management (GE-MIM) had noted that the Inter...

OceanExpert started as the Global Directory of Marine (and Freshwater) Professionals (GLODIR) in 1997 after the IODE Group of Experts on Marine Information Management (GE-MIM) had noted that the Inter...

This third version of the plan has been drafted based on comments received at the GOOS SC meeting held in Beijing in April, 1999 and from the GOOS Project Office recently. There has been a major rewri...

At its meeting in May 1999, the IOC Group of Experts on the Global Sea Level Observing System (GE-GLOSS) discussed the need for data archaeology of historic sea level records in order to possibly exte...

Two regional GODAR meetings have been held since the IODE XV meeting in 1996. A meeting was held in Cartagena, Colombia during 1996 for Caribbean and Central American countries (IOC Workshop report No...

The Global Temperature Salinity Profile Project continues to develop capabilities and deal in greater volumes of data. At the last SOT meeting, the Annual Report for 2002 was presented. The annual rep...

The Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Programme (GTSPP) is a joint programme of the IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) and the Joint IOC/WMO Committee ...

The International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) Resource Kit is a CD-ROM based product that contains a range of marine data management and information management material, includi...

The implementation of ODINAFRICA-III commenced with a meeting of the first session of the Project Steering Committee (PSC) meeting at the UNESCO Nairobi Office from 12-15 July 2004. The PSC agreed on ...

The second phase of the project for the development of an Ocean Data and Information Network for Africa (ODINAFRICA-II) aims at enabling member states from Africa to get access to data available in ot...

Activities of ODINCARSA project began with the First Planning workshop held in Guayaquil, Ecuador between 24-26 October 2001, hosted by the Oceanographic Institute of the Navy (INOCAR), with participa...

The IODE Think Tank Session was held in order to review the IODE programme in detail and develop a plan of action to carry IODE forward into the next decade of international oceanographic data managem...

All countries have a concern about climate change because of the global impact of climate variability whether this variability is of natural or anthropogenic origin. In 1996, the United Nations Interg...

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