Thanks to support from member states the IODE programme is able to
organize a wide range of training courses on a regular basis. These
courses are complemented and supported by the OceanTeacher training
system.
In order to assess training needs and to enable cost-effective
planning of courses in 2009 the IOC Project Office for IODE has created
a web-based survey through which oceanographic data managers can
identify needs. The survey is open between 29 October and 28 November
2008.
The first version of the provisional agenda of the 20th Session of the IODE Committee (Tianjin, China, 4-8 May 2009) is now available from the IODE web site HERE .
Robert Gelfeld from the U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center/World Data Center for Oceanography, Silver Spring presented the plenery speech at the 5th National Scientific Conference INFOBAZY 2008: Systems, Applications, and Services in Sopot, Poland from 15-18 October organized by the Institute of Oceanologii of Polish Academy of Science (PAN). The objective of the Conference was to implement the foundations of the “Program Development in Scientific Information Infrastructure for the years 2007-2013” in the area of scientific databases and information services.
His speech noted that a key to utilizing national and international systems, applications, and services for the information community is the ability to provide general access to scientific data and information using current scientific innovations, research, and collaboration between science and society. NODC, the World Data Center system and member states from the IOC international Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange Program provide data and information products and services to scientists, engineers, resource managers, policy makers, and other users around the world to document and describe the ocean’s natural variability.
Topics of interest presented during the conference included OBIS – Ocean Biodiversity Information System, Data standards and formats, Meta-data systems and ontologies, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Risk Management in marine and coastal areas, and Need for Polish National Oceanographic Data Center.
The electronic document repository for ODINECET has been established. The repository is hosted by the Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas (IBSS) in Ukraine.
CEEMaR (Central and Eastern European Marine Repository) is a thematic
digital repository covering the marine, brackish and freshwater
environments and providing access to papers produced by staff of the
ECET countries Institutes.
Currently
(October 2008) nine research institutes from three countries of Central
and Eastern Europe are involved in this project: two institutes from
Poland, two from Russia and five Institutes from the Ukraine among
them.
At this moment all participants create their own structures of
collections/sub-communities and preparing digital documents for input.
All technical and functional problems concerning document submission
module were corrected.
08-Oct-2008 : The Second Joint GOSUD/SAMOS Workshop was held in Seattle, Washington, United States between 10-12 June 2008. The summary report is now available HERE. Read more on the GOSUD page
06-Oct-2008- SCOR and IODE organized the "SCOR/IODE Workshop on Data Publishing" between 17-18 June 2008 at the IOC Project Office for IODE, Oostende, Belgium, and decided to start a pilot activity to promote the ability
to "publish" data sests as unique objects and their citation by other
researchers as a missing incentive to improve data flow to NODCs.The report of the meeting is now available [read more ]
06-Oct-2008: Geneva, 16 September 2008 - WMO/ISO : The World Meteorological
Organization (WMO) and the International Organization for
Standardization (ISO) have agreed to increase their cooperation in the
development of international standards related to meteorological and
hydrological data, products and services. ISO Secretary-General Alan
Bryden and WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud today signed an
agreement on Working arrangements in Geneva, Switzerland, to formalize
the partnership. [read more on the WMO site ]
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