GE-BICH-V

Submitted by cchandler on December 29, 2010
City: 
Oostende
Country: 
Belgium
Start: 
Monday, January 17, 2011 (All day)
End: 
Thursday, January 20, 2011 (All day)
Related Link: 
http://sites.google.com/site/gebichwiki/what-is-ge...

GE-BICH-V: 5th Session of the IODE Group of Experts on Biological and Chemical Data Management and Exchange Practices

Cyndy Chandler is an invited participant at the fifth IODE GE-BICH workshop meeting in Oostende, Belgium during January 2011.  The purpose of the workshop is to enable the group to achieve the overall objective of helping to develop standards for oceanographic biological and chemical data management and exchange, and to improve the quality and quantity of chemical and biological data available to end users.

The final workshop report is available from the GE-BICH site: http://www.iode.org/index.php?option=com_oe&task=viewEventRecord&eventID=650

For more information on the IODE Group of Experts Workshops see this page from the IODE site: IODE URL

Some of the workshop discussion topics:
  • Review of GE-BICH IV actions list and workplan
  • Update to Ocean Teacher range checks as recommended by GE-BICH QA/QC workshop.
  • Vocabularies - status of GE-BICH IV planned work and future directions
  • QA/QC procedures including quality control flags - actions from the IODE QA/QC workshop (see attachment below)
  • Online access to chemical and biological data (survey of Ocean Data Portal and SDN)
  • Collaboration with GE-OBIS
  • Collaboration with IPHAB and input to the Harmful Algal Information System
  • Submissions to Ocean Data Standards including Quality Control Flag scheme proposal