The Report of the Second Session of the JCOMM/IODE Expert Team on Data Management Practices (ETDMP) is now available. The meeting was held between 6-7 April 2010 at the IOC Project Office for IODE, Oostende, Belgium. The meeting discussed the proposed ETDMP work structure and organization. The ETDMP will be composed of 3 task teams: (i) TT for Ocean Data Standards; (ii) TT for Metadata; and (iii) TT for ODP. The meeting then discussed the work plan for each of the Task Teams.
