Transcript IODE presentation

International Oceanographic Data
and Information Exchange
Outline
What is IOC
 What is IODE
 Roles and functions of IODE
 Data sharing policy
 Data standards
 OceanDataPortal
 ODIN
 Capacity building, OceanTeacher
 Project Office
IOC
 Intergovernmental Oceanographic
Commission: body within UNESCO
 Headquarters in Paris, France
 Field Offices
 Colombia, Brazil, Thailand, Kenya, Denmark,
Belgium, Australia
 141 Member States
IOC Programmes
 Science: Addressing scientific
uncertainties for the management of
the marine environment and climate
change
 Observation: Developing operational
capabilities for the management and
sustainable development of the open
and coastal
 Tsunami Unit: Works with Member
States and other UN agencies and
NGOs, to build sustainable tsunami
early warning systems.
 Capacity Development: Empowering
developing countries to sustainably use
their coastal and marine resources
IOC Structure
IODE
IODE: International Oceanographic Data and
Information Exchange
 Established in 1961
‘to enhance marine research, exploitation and development by
facilitating the exchange of oceanographic data and
information between participating Member States and by
meeting the needs of users for data and information products’
IODE Structure
IODE Committee
 The IODE Programme is managed by the IODE
Committee
 Meets every 2 years
 The IODE Committee reports to the IOC Governing
Bodies (IOC Assembly and Executive Council)
 Membership of the IODE Committee includes:
 IODE Co-Chairs
 IODE National Coordinators for Ocean Data Management
 IODE National Coordinators for Marine Information Management
 Directors of the WDCs-Oceanography and WDCs-Marine
Geology and Geophysics
Groups of Experts
The IODE Committee has established a number
of small groups that provide expert advice to the
IODE Committee
The following Groups of Experts are currently
active:
IODE Group of Experts on Biological and Chemical
Data Management and Exchange Practises (GEBICH)
IODE Group of Experts on Marine Information
Management (GEMIM)
IODE Group of Experts on the Biogeographic
Information System (OBIS)
Joint JCOMM/IODE Expert Team on Data
Management Practises (ETDMP)
JCOMM
JCOMM is the Joint WMO-IOC Technical
Commission for Oceanography and Marine
Meteorology
JCOMM provides the mechanism for
international coordination, regulation and
management of oceanographic and marine
meteorological observing, data management
and services systems
IODE collaborates with JCOMM through the
JCOMM Data Management Programme
Area (DMPA) and its JCOMM/IODE Expert
Team on Data Management Practices
(ETDMP)
IODE: global network
 National Oceanographic Data Centres & Marine Information Centres
 80 NODCs
Role of an IODE NODC
National Oceanographic Data Centre (NODC) is
a facility for providing ocean data and
information in a usable form to a wide user
community
National: acquire, process, quality control, inventory,
archive and disseminate data
International: international data exchange
NODC functions
Receive data from national, regional and international
programmes collecting oceanographic data
Verify the quality of the data (using agreed standards)
Ensure long term preservation of data and associated
metadata
Make data available, nationally and internationally
(see: IOC Manuals and Guides No. 5)
IOC Data Policy
The timely, free and unrestricted international exchange of
oceanographic data is essential for the efficient acquisition,
integration and use of ocean observations gathered by the
countries of the world for a wide variety of purposes including
the prediction of weather and climate, the operational
forecasting of the marine environment, the preservation of
life, the mitigation of human-induced changes in the marine
and coastal environment, as well as for the advancement of
scientific understanding that makes this possible
“IOC OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA EXCHANGE POLICY, 2003”
IOC Strategic Plan
July 2007: IOC Assembly adopted the
IOC Strategic Plan for Oceanographic Data and
Information Management
“A comprehensive and integrated ocean data and
information system, serving the broad and diverse
needs of IOC Member States, for both routine and
scientific use.”
The Strategy includes …
 process and archive data on a diverse range of variables
according to scientifically sound and well-documented
standards and formats
 distribute data on a diverse range of variables (observations
and model outputs) in both real time and in “delayed” modes
depending on the needs of user groups and their technical
capabilities (automatic dissemination as well as “on demand”)
 enable efficient access to data on core variables and derived
products (including forecasts, alerts and warnings) by users
who have a broad range of capabilities.
IODE Projects
IODE is responsible for a number of Global and
Regional Activities
Global activities are implemented by Steering Teams
or through the NODCS or marine library
Regional activities focus on capacity development
related to oceanographic data and information
management through the ODIN network
Ocean Data Standards
 The objective of the Project is to achieve broad agreement
and commitment to adopt standards related to ocean data
management and exchange
 Standards Forum (2008) recommended a formal process to
submit and publish standards
 Aim is to reach agreement and commitment to adopt
standards that will meet the interoperability requirements of
the Ocean Data Portal including:
 Date and time – Recommended Standard
 Country codes – Recommended Standard
 Quality control flags – Submitted Standard
 Platform names – use ICES Platform Codes
 Metadata – ISO 19115 candidate
 Keywords (parameters, instruments) – work underway
Ocean Data Portal
The Ocean Data Portal (ODP) facilitates and
promotes the exchange and dissemination marine
data and services.
This is achieved through the IODE network of NODCs
which provide seamless access to collections and
inventories of marine data
The ODP provides the full range of processes
including data discovery, access, and visualization
Discover -> Deliver -> View -> Download
ODP: Interoperability
 The IODE is working with World Meteorological Organization
(WMO) to ensure ODP is interoperable with the WMO
Information System (WIS)
 WIS will be the core
component of the
GEOSS for weather,
water, climate and
disaster societal
benefit areas and
ODP will contribute
oceanographic data to
GEOSS, through the
WIS
NODC
NODC
ODP
NODC
NODC
WIS
GEO
PORTAL
GODAR Project
 The Global Oceanographic Data Archaeology and Rescue
(GODAR) Project
 Established in 1993 by the IODE
 Project lead is WDC for Oceanography, Silver Spring, USA
 "Data Archaeology"
 the process of seeking out, restoring, evaluating, correcting, and
interpreting historical data sets;
 "Data Rescue"
 the work required to save data at risk of being lost to the science
community by digitizing manuscript data and copying data from old
electronic media, then archiving these data to an online database.
 The GODAR project has resulted in the acquisition of:
 9 million temperature stations
 158,200 chlorophyll stations
 218,695 plankton stations
Metadata
A key part of any marine dataset is the accompanying
metadata.
Metadata includes characteristics about the data
such as the content, accuracy, reliability and the
source.
IODE has established a metadata
directory to locate marine and
coastal datasets from IOC
member states.
Other IODE Projects
 GTSPP. Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program is
an international project to develop and maintain a
global ocean Temperature-Salinity resource.
 GOSUD. Global Ocean Surface Underway Data Pilot
Project is a global project to collect, process, archive
and disseminate sea surface salinity and other
variables collected underway by research and
opportunity ships.
 OBIS. Ocean Biogeographic Information System is a
web-based access point to information about the
distribution and abundance of living species in the
ocean.
 OceanDocs. A repository network for oceanography
and marine science
IODE and Capacity Development
Capacity development has been a cornerstone of the
IODE since the programme’s inception in 1961
The objective is to assist Member States to acquire the
necessary capacity to manage marine data and
information and become partners in the IODE network.
Capacity development teaches the principles of data
and information management and also promotes the
use of "standards" amongst all IODE centres and thus
achieve interoperability between centres.
IODE Capacity Development Strategy
ODIN – Ocean Data and Information Network strategy
 ODIN is based upon four elements:
 providing equipment
 providing training
 providing seed funding for operational activities for newly created data
centres and marine libraries
 work in a regional context, addressing common as well as national
goals
 ODIN regional networks
 ODINAFRICA. 25 African countries
 ODINCARSA. Latin America and Caribbean
 ODINCINDIO. Central Indian Ocean
 ODINWESTPAC. Western Pacific region
 ODINBlackSea. Black Sea region
 ODINECET. European Countries in Economic Transition
 ODIN-PIMRIS. Small Island Pacific States
ODINs
IODE regional capacity building projects:
 ODINAFRICA. 25 African countries
 ODINCARSA. Latin America and Caribbean
 ODINCINDIO. Central Indian Ocean
 ODINWESTPAC. IOC WESTPAC region
 ODINECET. European Countries in Economic Transition
 ODINBlackSea. Black Sea region
Benefitsof
of ODINs
ODINs
Benefit
Participating countries identify national priorities and
develop work plans that aim to address them
Added value
-Sharing of expertise
-Sharing of data
-Sharing of information
ODIN: Regional products
African Marine Atlas
 For resource managers, planners and decision-makers from
various administrative institutions and specialized agencies in
Africa
 800 layers
Atlas Themes
GEOSPHERE
HYDROSPHERE
ATMOSPHERE
BIOSPHERE
HUMAN ENVIRONMENT
ODIN: Regional products
Caribbean Marine Atlas
 A joint initiative of 9 countries including Barbados, Cayman Is,
Cuba, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Lucia,
Trinidad and Tobago, and Turks and Caicos Islands
 Atlas will identify, collect and
organize available geo-spatial
datasets for the Caribbean
region as a support service to
the sustainable development
and integrated management of
marine and coastal areas in the
region
 Prototype released 2010
Training Tool: OceanTeacher
 Training resource for marine data and
information management
 Audience:
 data/information managers
 ocean researchers
 University students
 Continuous development
 Increasing focus on
continuous professional
development
http://www.oceanteacher.org
OceanTeacher model
Digital Library: online
encyclopaedia about
marine data
management and
marine information
management
Classroom: Courses on
data and information
management based
upon Moodle
IOC Project Office for IODE
 Based in Oostende, Belgium
 International Training Centre
 International Conference
Centre
 2005-2010: > 800 students
from 120 countries
 Host for IOC/IODE data and
information services
 Support from Flanders
Government
 Close cooperation with
Flanders Marine Institute
(VLIZ)
http://www.iode.org