The 20th Session of the IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE-XX) will be held at the China People's Palace Hotel in Bejing, China. All IODE National Coordinators (data management and information management) as well as partner organizations have received invitations. If you have not yet registered (click here to register ) then please do so now. You should also book your hotel room (find more info here ). We remind you that IOC/IODE can not provide support to national delegates in this Conference. Further information on the meeting will ONLY be emailed to registered participants.
Bob Gelfeld, who carries under his belt over 30 years of data management experience at the US National Oceanographic Data Center, has joined the IOC Project Office for IODE in Oostende, Belgium for a period of 3 months. During this time Bob will assist us with the preparations of documents for the twentieth Session of IODE.Bob will assist in particular with the analysis of the IODE national reports. In addition Bob will be working on the "JCOMM catalogue of best practices". Bob can be reached through the email address This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The report of the "Workshop on
Collaboration Between IOC and OBIS Towards the Long-term Management,
Archival and Accessibility of Ocean Biogeographic Data" held at the IOC Project
Office for IODE, Oostende, Belgium, 24-26 November 2008 is now available. Find out MORE
The IODE online survey on training requirements related to oceanographic data management has now been completed. We received a total of 135 responses. Under "Basic Courses" the most requested course is "Ocean Data Products and Synthesis" closely followed by "Developing an Ocean Data collection". Under "Advanced courses" the course "Marine GIS" is the winner. Under "Specialized courses" the course "Ocean Modeling and related data management" came out first, followed by "Web-based data services development" and "Sea Level data management and analysis".
A full report will be made available early January when the IODE course programme for 2009 will also be published.
Similar to the survey on data managemenr requirements, carried out in November 2008, IODE is now carrying out a survey on training requirements for marine information managers. Through this survey we will try to identify the training topics that are most needed by marine information professionals (librarians) in IOC Member States. The survey can be filled by IODE national coordinators for marine information management, marine information professionals involved in ODIN networks, IAMSLIC members or other marine information professionals in IOC member states.
The survey will be open between 4 and 12 December.
28-Nov-2008: During the Intergovernmental Conference on Oceanographic Research, 1960, at which the setting up of an Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
was recommended, certain initial tasks for the new Commission were
outlined and amongst these was included the requirement for a structure
to co-ordinate international oceanographic data exchange (already at that time it was recognized that oceanographic exchange was impossible without global access to data).
The
first formal establishment of a Working Group on Exchange of
Oceanographic Data was made by IOC Resolution I-9 adopted at the First
Session of the Commission in October 1961, which also prescribed that:
"The mission of this Working Group shall be the
facilitating of exchange of oceanographic data, the standardization of
forms for reporting and coding data, the encouragement of the
preparation of data catalogues, and the assistance of development of
national oceanographic data centres."
We therefore consider 1961 as the official "date of birth" of the
IODE, making 2011 the 50th anniversary of the IOC Committee on
International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE).
To
celebrate this important milestone in the history of the IOC (which
will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2010) we are inviting all
members of the IODE familty to dig deep into the historical archives
for old reports, photographs, anecdotes, etc. The IODE Secretariat will
post these items on the IODE web site starting December 2008.
A Table of Contents of the IODE Archive will be made available and regularly updated.
Bob Gelfeld, who carries under his belt over 30 years of data management experience at the US National Oceanographic Data Center, has joined the IOC Project Office for IODE in Oostende, Belgium for a period of 3 months. During this time Bob will assist us with the preparations of documents for the twentieth Session of IODE.Bob will assist in particular with the analysis of the IODE national reports. In addition Bob will be working on the "JCOMM catalogue of best practices". Bob can be reached through the email address 
recommended, certain initial tasks for the new Commission were
outlined and amongst these was included the requirement for a structure
to co-ordinate international oceanographic data exchange (already at that time it was recognized that oceanographic exchange was impossible without global access to data).