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No
|
Para Status
|
Action item
|
Due
by date
|
To
be implemented by
|
|
1
|
52
|
The Committee further
recommended that in future surveys information should also be collected
on Cruise Summary Reports (CSR).
|
IODE-XXI
|
Secretariat
|
|
2
|
54
|
The Committee tasked the IODE
Officers, with assistance from other members of the Committee as
appropriate, with further refining and developing metrics for
quantifying data flow in the IODE network, taking account of the
guidelines on metrics/indicators in Manuals and Guides No. 5 (2nd
rev. ed.) 2008.
|
2010 Session
of the IODE Officers Meeting
|
IODE Officers
|
|
3
|
93
|
The Committee recommended that a
“global map on the management of oceanographic data for the world” be
prepared to assess the degree of overlap between the WDCs and the
project data assembly centres’ data holdings. It should include a
consideration of the physical location of the master copy of the data
sets.
|
2010 Session
of the IODE Officers Meeting
|
WDCs
Oceanography, IODE Officers
|
|
4
|
104
|
The Committee instructed the
Secretariat to contact countries that had indicated, in their national
report (see Agenda Item 4.1), the possibility to provide seconded staff
or internships, to formalize the offers.
|
End of 2009
|
IODE
Secretariat
|
|
5
|
112
|
The Committee emphasized the
importance of having a process through which the vocabularies become
standards and are distributed widely. Vocabularies will evolve and what
has been assembled should be exposed quickly so that people know what
is available and are able to use and comment the lists. The Committee
identified the Ocean Data Standards process as a mechanism that could
be utilised to adopt the lists but cautioned that this should not delay
the creation of new vocabularies. The Committee encouraged GE-BICH and
SeaVox to proceed quickly towards establishing such a mechanism.
|
Continuously
|
GE-BICH,
SeaVox
|
|
6
|
115
|
The Delegate of the United
Kingdom drew the attention of the Committee to a European Union funded
project – MyOcean, which will focus on ocean monitoring and forecasting
in Europe. She recommended that GE-BICH should explore the possibility
for collaboration with this project, which will handle bio-chemical
parameters and also intends to develop Quality Control procedures.
|
IODE-XXI
|
GE-BICH
|
|
7
|
116
|
The Committee adopted the report
of the GE-BICH-IV Session and the Recommendations included therein.
|
Implementation
of action plan by IODE-XXI
|
GE-BICH
|
|
8
|
117
|
The Committee adopted Resolution
IODE-XX.1 (Revised Terms of Reference for the IODE Group of Experts
on Biological and Chemical Data Management and Exchange Practices –
GE-BICH)
|
IODE-XXI
|
GE-BICH/ IOC
Member States
|
|
9
|
130
|
The Committee adopted the “IODE
Statement of the future of OBIS” attached as Annex VII to this Report.
It requested Mr Geoff Holland, Consultant, as well as the IODE
Co-Chairs to present this statement to the 25th Session of
the IOC Assembly, where this item will be further discussed and decided
upon.
|
June 2009
|
G. Holland
|
|
10
|
138
|
The Committee urged all IOC
Member States to nominate IODE national coordinators for Marine
Information Management and to ensure that their information is kept
up-to-date in OceanExpert.
|
July/August
2009
|
IODE
Secretariat to send Circular Letter
IOC Member
States
|
|
11
|
140
|
The Committee welcomed the
success of the marine information management activities and adopted the
reports of GE-MIM-IX and GE-MIM-X as well as all recommendations
included therein.
|
Implementation
of action plan by IODE-XXI
|
GE-MIM
|
|
12
|
147
|
The Committee called for
continued and expanded cooperation between IODE and JCOMM through the
JCOMM DMPA as well as through relevant capacity building activities and
OceanTeacher.
|
continuous
|
JCOMM DMPA
and OceanTeacher
|
|
13
|
157
|
The Committee approved the
(ETDMP) work plan.
|
IODE-XXI
|
ETDMP
|
|
14
|
158
|
The Committee adopted Recommendation
IODE-XX.1 (REVISION OF THE TERMS OF REFERENCE OF THE JCOMM/IODE
EXPERT TEAM ON DATA MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (ETDMP))
|
JCOMM-III
|
IOC Executive
Secretary/ IODE Co-Chairs/ Chair JCOMM DMCG/ IOC Member States
|
|
15
|
166
|
The Committee, considering its
work in the areas of vocabularies and metadata, invited the SeaDataNet
project managers to submit standards proposals to the Ocean Data
Standards Pilot Project. The Committee considered that this would offer
the opportunity to SeaDataNet to share and promote its expertise beyond
Europe
|
Continuous
|
SeaDataNet
project managers
|
|
16
|
167
|
Similarly, the Committee invited
Member States or regional 15initiatives active in the area of
standardization and best practices, to submit proposals to the Ocean
Data Standards Pilot Project.
|
Continuous
|
IOC Member
States
|
|
17
|
168
|
The delegate of the United
Kingdom, Dr Lesley Rickards, informed the Committee that the document
regarding the quality control of sea level data will be submitted in
June or July 2009.
|
July 2009
|
Dr L. Rickards
|
|
18
|
169
|
The Committee adopted Recommendation
IODE-XX.2 (THE OCEAN DATA STANDARDS PILOT PROJECT)
|
IODE-XXI
|
IOC Member
Ststes
|
|
19
|
186
|
The Committee adopted the (IODE
Ocean Data Portal) work plan for 2009-2011)
|
IODE-XXI
|
IODE ODP
Project Steering Team
|
|
20
|
187
|
The Committee adopted Recommendation
IODE-XX.3 (IODE Ocean Data Portal)
|
IODE-XXI
|
NODCs, IODE
projects, IOC Member States
|
|
21
|
192
|
…the Government of the Republic
of Korea has provided funding and will host an IODE Ocean Data Portal
training course between 31 August and 3 September 2009
|
August/September
2009
|
IODE
Secretariat/ Republic of Korea
|
|
22
|
198
|
The Committee adopted the (WIGOS
Pilot Project for JCOMM) work plan for 2009-2011
|
IODE-XXI
|
Joint
Steering Group for the IODE Ocean Data Portal and the WIGOS Pilot
Project for JCOMM
|
|
23
|
203
|
The Committee thanked Mr Levitus
for his report, expressed appreciation for the continuing work carried
out during the inter-sessional period, and approved the work plan for
the next inter-sessional period.
|
IODE-XXI
|
GODAR Project
Leader
|
|
24
|
213
|
The
Committee noted that the Cyclical Redundancy Check (CRC) is a good
candidate to be used as a tool for producing unique identifiers for
oceanographic data. It could be a good candidate for submission to the
Ocean Data Standards Pilot Project.
|
IODE-XXI
|
GTSPP Chair
|
|
25
|
214
|
The
Committee thanked Dr Sun for his detailed report, expressed
appreciation for the work carried out during the inter-sessional
period, and approved the work plan for the next inter-sessional period.
|
IODE-XXI
|
GTSPP
Co-Chairs
|
|
26
|
227
|
The
Committee thanked Mr Petit de la Villéon for his detailed report,
expressed appreciation for the work carried out during the
inter-sessional period, and approved the work plan for the next
inter-sessional period.
|
IODE-XXI
|
GOSUD
Co-Chairs
|
|
27
|
239
|
The Committee suggested that the
SeaDataNet vocabularies might be excellent candidates for the Ocean
Data Standards Process.
|
IODE-XXI
|
SeaDataNet
project managers
|
|
28
|
241
|
The Committee thanked Dr
Rickards for presenting Dr Lowry’s report, expressed appreciation for
the work carried out during the inter-sessional period, and approved
the work plan for the next inter-sessional period.
|
IODE-XXI
|
MarineXML
Steering Group
|
|
29
|
247
|
The Committee thanked Mr Reed
and supported his proposal that the Steering Group for MEDI be terminated and
future development and administration of MEDI should be managed by the
IODE/JCOMM ETDMP.
|
IODE-XXI
(report from ETDMP)
|
ETDMP
|
|
30
|
255
|
The Committee was informed that
operators of offshore wind farms now also collect a considerable number
of metocean parameters. In most cases these data are still classified
but the Committee recommended that contact is made with the operators
to investigate the possibility to obtain and share this new source of
data.
|
IODE-XXI
|
Offshore wind
farm operators
|
|
31
|
259
|
The Committee adopted Recommendation
IODE-XX.4 (THERMODYNAMICS
AND EQUATION OF STATE OF SEAWATER. TEOS-10)
|
IODE-XXI
|
NODCS
|
|
32
|
273
|
Dr Gwenaelle Moncoiffe, Chair of
GE-BICH, reported that guideline documents materials on quality control
procedures are available for submission to OceanTeacher.
|
June/July 2009
|
G. Moncoiffé
|
|
33
|
274
|
Mr Robert Keeley, Chair JCOMM
Data Management Coordination Group, reported that JCOMM would
contribute to OceanTeacher with training materials (e.g. JCOMM
catalogue on standards and best practices).
|
End of 2009
|
R. Keeley
|
|
34
|
275
|
The Committee welcomed the
success of OceanTeacher, thanked the Government of Flanders (Kingdom of
Belgium) for supporting this important Project and invited Member
States to (i) contribute to OceanTeacher by making available national
experts as lecturers or content providers; and (ii) make use of the
OceanTeacher Academy for new staff members of data and information
management centres who require training; and (iii) provide sponsorship
for OceanTeacher Academy students from developing countries.
|
IODE-XXI
|
Member States
|
|
35
|
284
|
The Committee adopted the work
plan for ODINAFRICA for the period 2009 – 2013
|
IODE-XXI
|
ODINAFRICA
project manager
|
|
36
|
298
|
The Committee invited Mr
Martinez to continue sharing his expertise in ODINCARSA through any way
possible and appropriate.
|
IODE-XXI
|
Rodney
Martinez
|
|
37
|
299
|
The Committee requested the IODE
Secretariat to organize a regional meeting for ODINCARSA to enable the
participating countries to define new goals and to identify a new
regional coordinator for the South American sub-region.
|
2009/2010
|
IODE
Secretariat/ ODINCARSA participating countries
|
|
38
|
302
|
The Committee instructed the
IODE Secretariat to follow-up with communications to IODE and IOC
national contacts in the region, as well as to organize a meeting for
Member States from the region during the 25th Session of the
IOC Assembly (June 2009).
|
June 2009
|
IODE
Secretariat/ ODINCINDIO participating countries
|
|
39
|
311
|
The Committee adopted the
ODINECET work plan for 2009 and 2010 – 2011
|
IODE-XXI
|
ODINECET
project coordinator
|
|
40
|
320
|
The Committee adopted the work
plan for ODINWESTPAC.
|
IODE-XXI
|
ODINWESTPAC
project coordinator
|
|
41
|
326
|
The Committee invited Dr
Vladymyrov to continue as the ODIN Black Sea Coordinator, and arrange a
Steering Committee meeting to prepare a work plan for ODIN Black Sea.,
taking into account the cooperation with the EU funded Black Sea SCENE
project.
|
2009/2010
|
V.
Vladymyrov/ ODINBlackSea participating countries
|
|
42
|
332
|
The Committee tasked the ETDMP
to compare the similarities and differences between the various portal
systems that are being developed with the objective of promoting and
achieving their interoperability.
|
IODE-XXI
|
ETDMP
|
|
43
|
343
|
The Committee adopted the
ODIN-PIMRIS work plan.
|
IODE-XXI
|
ODIN-PIMRIS
project coordinator
|
|
44
|
364
|
The Delegate of Malaysia offered
to establish a regional training node in the International Centre for
South-South Co-operation in Science, Technology and Innovation (ISTIC)
in Kuala Lumpur, which functions under the auspices of UNESCO (http://istic-unesco.org/)
|
IODE-XXI
|
Malaysia
|
|
45
|
366
|
The Committee agreed on the IODE
course calendar and called on the Member States to promote the IODE
Training activities on the national level.
|
IODE-XXI
|
Member States
|
|
46
|
367
|
The Committee invited the
Delegate from Malaysia as well as other Member States that may be
interested in hosting a regional IODE training node, to discuss the
details and requirements in more detail with the IOC/IODE Secretariat.
|
IODE-XXI
|
Malaysia/
Member States
|
|
47
|
395
|
Regarding Recommendation 7
(…reduced capacity of the Secretariat ) the Committee called on the IOC
Executive Secretary to consider ways and means to strengthen the
staffing of the IOC Project Office for IODE (General support staff as
well as Professional staff) with additional regular UNESCO positions to
ensure the long-term sustainability of the Office as the IODE
Secretariat. In addition the Committee, noting with concern the pending
retirement of Mr Adrien Vannier from IOC/UNESCO Headquarters, urged the
IOC Executive Secretary to ensure a suitable replacement is identified
in a timely fashion to ensure the essential administrative backstopping
of the IODE programme.
|
IODE-XXI
|
IOC Executive
Secretary
|
|
48
|
396
|
Regarding Recommendation 9
(…develop indicators
and benchmarks to assess the amount of data and information being
exchanged …) the
Committee invited NODCs to provide information on their metrics
methodology to the IODE Secretariat, which will then be collated and
shared with the IODE community for further consideration by the next
Session of the Committee.
|
IODE-XXI
|
NODCs
|
|
49
|
406
|
The Committee also recommended
that each IOC Member State should be preferably be represented by a
single IODE national coordinator for oceanographic data management and
a single IODE national coordinator for marine information management,
to ensure coherence in national positions regarding data and
information management.
|
IODE-XXI
|
Member States
|
|
50
|
406
|
To ensure the best possible
national coordination between the different national data centres the
Committee recommended that Member States establish national data and
information coordination mechanisms.
|
IODE-XXI
|
Member States
|
|
51
|
424
|
The Committee established an
inter-sessional working group that will address the issue of “Long-term
Secure Archival of Data and Information”. It was tasked to answer the
following questions:
(i) What does IODE need from
WDCs or their successor organizations to promote “Long-term Secure
Archival of Data and Information”;
(ii) What do WDCs or their
successor organizations need from IODE to promote “Long-term Secure
Archival of Data and Information”
|
IODE-XXI
|
(i) Sydney
Levitus (Chair); (ii) Greg Reed; (iii) Prof. Lin Shoahua; (iv) Vladimir
Kuznetsov; (v) Friedrich Nast; (vi) Lesley Rickards; (vii) Sissy Iona;
(viii) Bob Keeley; (ix) Taco de Bruin; and (x) Linda Pikula.
|
|
52
|
435
|
The Committee instructed the
GE-MIM Chair to liaise with Ms Cathy Norton at WHOI to ensure GE-MIM
participation (in the SCOR/IODE activity on data publishing).
|
IODE-XXI
|
GE-MIM
|
|
53
|
436
|
The Committee noted the progress
of this initiative and instructed the IODE experts involved in this
undertaking to continue informing the Committee on progress.
|
IODE-XXI
|
IODE experts
involved in the activity
|
|
54
|
442
|
The Committee tasked the IODE
Officers to look into this matter (WDS) and report back to the next
Session, and also to monitor the accreditation and certification
process of data centres established by the WDS.
|
IODE-XXI
|
IODE Officers
|
|
55
|
446
|
The Committee requested the
Technical Secretary to contact the JCOMM Observations Programme Area,
through the GOOS Project Office, to include the sea surface salinity
network in reporting the status of the global observing system.
|
June 2009
|
IODE
Secretariat
|
|
56
|
459
|
The Committee welcomed the
cooperation with IOC/HAB on HAIS which is an example of the new role of
IODE assigned to IODE within the framework of the IOC Strategic Plan
for Oceanographic Data and Information Management.
The Committee adopted Resolution
IODE-XX.2 (DEVELOPMENT OF THE HARMFUL ALGAL INFORMATION SYSTEM)
|
IODE-XXI
|
IODE/ HAB
|
|
57
|
470
|
The Committee welcomed the
cooperation with ICAM (on SPINCAM, CMA, AMA), which is another example
of the new role assigned to IODE within the framework of the IOC
Strategic Plan for Oceanographic Data and Information Management.
|
IODE-XXI
|
IODE/ ICAM
|
|
58
|
476
|
Mr De Bruin proposed to contact
each of the NODCs involved in IPY projects and ask those NODCs to
identify (and consequently manage and preserve) the IPY data from that
NODC country. That is to start at the level of the 170 honeycomb
project and then go down to the level of the subprojects and the
sub-subprojects. Mr De Bruin would contact those concerned during
IODE-XX or in the very near future and he asked for active support from
the IODE community in this matter.
|
July 2009
|
T. De Bruin
|
|
59
|
477
|
The USA suggested an IODE
Circular Letter be sent to NODCs on this topic. Mr De Bruin agreed to
also make contact at the working level with relevant NODCs to
supplement the Circular Letter, and to keep the IODE secretariat
informed of progress.
|
June 2009
|
IODE
Secretariat
|
|
60
|
477
|
Germany offered to help in
ensuring Arctic research cruise summary reports are made available
|
End of 2009
|
German NODC
|
|
61
|
477
|
The UK noted the importance of
ship operators inputting data into cruise planning databases such as
the one maintained by POGO and noted that the new draft SCAR data and
information strategy envisions a strong partnership with IODE for
marine data exchange and stewardship for the Southern Ocean.
|
IODE-XXI
|
IODE/ POGO/
SCAR
|
|
62
|
479
|
The Committee stressed the
importance of comprehensive, professional management as well as
long-tern secure archival of the IPY data, and called on the NODCs as
well as WDCs Oceanography to actively participate in this activity.
|
IODE-XXI
|
NODCs, WDCs
Oceanography
|
|
63
|
485
|
The Committee thanked Mr Keeley
for his presentation and called on NODCs to actively participate in
OceanObs’09.
|
September 2009
|
NODCs
|
|
64
|
490
|
The Committee welcomed the
planned establishment of a long-term archival for OTN data at the
Canadian NODC.
|
IODE-XXI
|
Canadian NODC
|
|
65
|
496
|
The Committee invited NODCs to
collaborate with OneGeology by providing marine geology data or to
contact relevant national contacts in institutions that may hold
relevant maps or data.
|
IODE-XXI
|
NODCs
|
|
66
|
499
|
The Committee welcomed the
cooperation with MMI and recommended its continuation, thereby also
taking into account the SeaVox vocabulary services and developments
taking place in the IODE Marine XML Steering Group.
|
IODE-XXI
|
MMI
coordinators
|
|
67
|
505
|
The Committee requested to send
at least one paper copy of information materials published by the
Project Office to NODCs.
|
continuously
|
IODE
Secretariat
|
|
68
|
514
|
The Committee requested the
NODCs and Marine Information Centres to send historical photographs of
data centres, information centres and their equipment and staff to the
IOC project Office for IODE (printed or electronic).
|
End of 2009
|
NODCs, Marine
Information Centres
|
|
69
|
515
|
The Committee established an
inter-sessional Working Group to finalise plans for commemoration of
the 50th anniversary of IODE.
The Committee instructed the
Group to submit its Report to the Officers by the end of 2009
|
End of 2009
|
The group,
Chaired by Greece, will include Belgium, Canada, France, Germany,
Senegal, South Africa, Turkey, Ukraine, the IODE Co-Chair (Malika Bel
Hassen Abid), the ODINAFRICA Coordinator, and the Chair GE-MIM.
|
|
70
|
518
|
The Committee instructed the
NODCs to put a link to the 'IOC Oceanographic Data Exchange Policy’ on
their own web page.
|
End of 2009
|
NODCs
|
|
71
|
525
|
The Committee expressed its
concern that not all 46 members of the "IOC Data and Information
Management Advisory Group" will be active in the governance system for
the Strategy. The Co-Chairs will need to identify a smaller group to
take action. The next key issue will be on the Impact on IODE of cooperation
with OBIS and
this needs to be done before the next IOC Assembly.
|
June 2009
|
Co-Chairs
|
|
72
|
530
|
The Committee instructed the
Co-Chairs to bring to the attention of the IOC Assembly the need to
diversify the sources of extra-budgetary funding, recalling that over
90% of the extra-budgetary funding for IODE is now provided by one
Member State
|
June 2009
|
IODE Co-Chairs
|
|
73
|
530
|
The Committee
also called on Member States to use the Flanders-UNESCO Trust Fund for
Science as an example of an effective and flexible way to provide
assistance to UNESCO and its IOC and this had been confirmed by an
assessment, and invited other Member States to establish similar
mechanisms with IOC to support IODE and other IOC programmes.
|
IODE-XXI
|
Member States
|
|
74
|
531
|
The Committee adopted Recommendation
IODE-XX.5
|
IODE-XXI
|
IOC Member
States, members of the IODE Committee
|
|
75
|
536
|
The delegates of Belgium and the
United States of America offered to investigate the possibility of
hosting the 21st session IODE-XXI in 2011.
The Committee welcomed the
offers and instructed the Secretariat and the Co–Chairs to follow-up on
the offers.
|
Early 2010
|
IODE
Secretariat
|
|
76
|
540
|
The Committee requested the IODE
Co-Chairs to present the Executive Summary with all Resolutions and
Recommendations therein to the Twenty-Fifth Session of the IOC Assembly
that will take place between 16 and 25 June 2009 at the UNESCO
headquarters in Paris, France.
|
June 2009
|
IODE Co-Chairs
|
