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Overview of IODE
Peter Pissierssens
Head, Ocean Services IOC
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IODE: mission statement
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’
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Data Centre Network
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Network of nearly 70 Data Centres
World Data Centres Oceanography (3)
National Oceanographic Data Centres (64)
Responsible National Oceanographic Data
centres
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Role of the NODC
• A National Oceanographic Data Centre (NODC) is
a centralised facility for providing ocean
data/information in a usable form to a wide user
community;
• Acquires, processes, quality controls, inventories,
archives and disseminates data in accordance with
national responsibilities;
• Charged with the responsibility for conducting
international exchange;
• Traditionally, but not exclusively, deals with delayed
mode data
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IODE organizational structure
• IODE Committee
– IODE national coordinators + all below
• IODE Chair and Vice-Chair
• IODE Officers
– Chair, Vice-Chair, Chairs Groups of
Experts, Directors WDCs Oceanography,
Regional Coordinators.
• Secretariat
– HQ, Project offices
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IODE Activities
• Expertise: Groups of Experts
– GE-TADE (now Joint JCOMM/IODE ETDMP),
GE-MIM, GE-BCDMEP
• Global activities:
– ASFA, GTSPP, GODAR, GOSUD, OceanExpert,
MEDI, marineXML, OceanPortal, Regional Ocean
Portals, OIT, OceanTeacher
– Data policy
• Capacity building:
– National, regional
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Capacity Building
• national & regional workshops/training
courses
• advisory missions
• internships
• regional data & information exchange
networks (RECOSCIX-WIO, RECOSCIX-
CEA, ODINEA, ODINAFRICA, ODINCARSA)
• training tools: OceanTeacher
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IODE Yesterday
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centralized data centre architecture (1/c)
delayed mode operation (weeks-year)
physical oceanography data (T,S,…)
QC, data archival and dissemination
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IODE today-tomorrow
• decentralized model
• more attention to chemical, biological
data, coastal data
• delayed mode + some real-time (close
links with GOOS)
• E2EDM
• products and service oriented
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Traditional centralized model
1 NODC per country: full control
Data
acquisition
NODC
User
products/
services
WDC
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Decentralized model
Data
Data Mgmt
acquisition
WDC
Data
acquisition
Data
acquisition
NODC
User
products/
services
Data
Data Mgmt Modeling
acquisition
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NODC: coordinating, guiding role
Technology?
• 26/1: Alan Edwards:
“Research in GMES: … Information
Technology for improved accessibility to
long-term data archives, implementation
of metadata standards, actions for
facilitating information retrieval and
diisemination…”
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IODE: new Technology
• Old problem: formats!!
• Metadata standard: MEDI and JCOMM/IODE
ETDMP pilot projects (centralized repositories,
decentralized metadatabases, harvesters, automated
generation by instruments,…??)
• How make different systems exchange data
– New solution: marineXML (ref Nic)
• Framework: OIT
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marineXML
• marine XML will support tracking of
data from collection through to
generation of integrated global and
regional datasets.
• marineXML can support metadata
describing the data collection, quality
control and subsequent processing.
• The generation of data tagged with
marineXML at the instrument level can
enable automating processes like
generation of metadata descriptions
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IODE involvement in mXML
• ICES-IOC Study Group on the
Development of Marine Data Exchange
Systems using XML [SGXML]
• EU Marine XML project
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SG-XML ToR
framework and methodology for the
use of XML …;
• develop a work plan that within 4 years will lead
to published protocols for XML …;
• explore how to best define XML tags and
structures so that many ocean data types can be
• develop a
represented using a common set of tags and structures.
• test and refine these common tags and
structures using case studies
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SG-XML membership
• ICES
– Pekka Alenius, Thierry Carval, Ray Cramer,
Robert D. Gelfeld, Anthony Isenor, Philip Knight,
Roy Lowry, Bernard Pelchat, Lesley Rickards,
Helge Sagen, Jan Szaron, Jean Gagnon, Peiter
Haaring, Ritta Olsonen, C. Haenen, Todd O'Brien,
Lotta Fyrberg, Slawomir Sagan, Marcin
Wichorowski
• IODE
– Robert Starek, Don Collins, Nick Mikhailov,
Edward Vanden Berghe, Greg Reed
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EU project ToR
• To produce a prototype marine data
ontology framework for interoperability
• To produce working demonstrations of
the data interoperability framework
• To develop a prototype MML
specification
• To advance the standardisation of a
Marine Mark-up Language
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EU project members
• Keiran Millard & Alsion Houghton (HR
Wallingford)
• Brian Matthews (CCLRC)
• Torill Hamre (NERSC)
• Francisco Hernandez (VLIZ)
• Pieter Haaring (RIKZ)
• Dan Pillich & Holger Bothien (SevenCS)
• Nic Flemming (EuroGOOS)
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Ocean Information
Technology (OIT)
• significant advances in many branches of
oceanography and marine science and
technology…
• rapid expansion in data and information …, to
the point where our ability to manage and
interpret this information is beginning to limit
further progress
• trend toward increased applied oceanography
of a form that provides routine, reliable and
sustained ocean and marine services for a
variety of public good and commercial areas
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Capacity Building: new deal
• Before: occasional training courses,
internships
• Now: ODIN strategy
– Linking training, equipment, operational
support
– Regional context
– Product and service oriented
– Multi-stakeholder approach
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ODINAFRICA
• Started 2001
• 20 African countries
– 2 in MED region: Tunisia, Morocco
• 2001-2003: 19 NODCs established
• Data products and services developed
– Data atlases, metadatabases, national ocean
awareness activities, stakeholder meetings,
national coordination teams established,…
• 2004: ODINAFRICA-III
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ODINAFRICA-III
3 components:
1. coastal ocean observing system
2. data/information management
3. product development, end-user
communication and information delivery
system
Modeling?
Data
acquisition
Data Mgmt
User
products/
services
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ODINAFRICA-III: observation
• Physical
– Sea-level, Water Temperature, Salinity, Currents,
Surface Waves, Changes in Bathymetry, Changes
in Shoreline Position, Sediment grain size,
Attenuation of solar radiation ,
• Chemical
– Sediment organic content, Dissolved inorganic
nitrogen, phosphorus, silicon, Dissolved oxygen
• Biological
– Benthic biomass, Phytoplankton Biomass, Faecal
Indicators
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ODINAFRICA-III: D&IM
• strengthen NODCs to
– (i) manage data streams from the coastal ocean-observing
network;
– (ii)obtain, analyse and disseminate operational in-situ
measurements from global programs (e.g. Argo and shipsof-opportunity); and
– (iii) obtain, analyse and disseminate Level 3 satellite
imagery/analyses to the local/national community;
• Integrate biogeographic and hydrological data steams into
NODC systems;
• delivery of selected CD-ROM databases
• Upgrade internet access to all NODCs using VSAT and other
available technologies and upgrade computer systems.
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MAMA (MedGOOS) –
ODINAFRICA-III?
• Expand/strengthen ODINAFRICA
network in North Africa?
• Use MAMA experience/expertise in all
ODINAFRICA countries and vice-versa?
• ODINAFRICA needs modeling
expertise: what levels (using,
developing) and where (national,
regional…)
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Training Tool: ODIMeX
• OceanTeacher to ODIMeX (2004-2007)
= single integrated e-learning and expert system
• expert and training resources for marine data
management and marine information management
needed by professional ocean data and information
managers and scientists involved in data
management;
• provide ocean researchers and students with the
necessary knowledge to interact effectively with their
national oceanographic data centres
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ODIMeX
• Distance learning technology
• Topics expansion: Remote
Sensing, Biological data
management, Operational
oceanography data
management, Modelling
• Tools expansion: GIS,
Programming, XML,
development of WWW based
services
• Expanded audience:
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AUDIENCES
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The Binary Model
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IODE new deal
• IODE needs to lead way in coordinating
access to marine data and information
to support needs of users
• Close collaboration with sciences and
operational oceanography
• Need to develop new technologies
• Need to undertake major training at
global scale (existing and new DCs!)
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IODE project Office
• establish a creative environment facilitating the
further development & maintenance of IODE
projects, services & products with emphasis on
improving the efficiency & effectiveness of the
data & product/service stream between the
stage of sampling & the user;
• to assist in strengthening the capacity of
Member States to manage oceanographic data
& information & to provide ocean data &
information products & services required by
users.
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IODE-XVII
• IODE-XVII (March 2003) received a formal
offer from the Government of Flanders
(Kingdom of Belgium) to host the IODE
Project Office in Oostende, Belgium.
• IODE-XVII recommended to accept the offer
(Rec. IOC/IODE-XVII.4), adopted by IOC-XXII
• Renovation works to start March 2004-March
2005
• Head: Dr Vladimir Vladymyrov (starting
1/2/04)
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-1000m2
-2 meeting rooms
-1 large conference/training room
- broadband Internet connection
-10 offices
-2 D&IM lab areas
- web/db servers
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2004 Calendar
• 27-30 January 2004: 5th MAMA meeting (incl WP2/WP4
Expert Meeting and the MD&IM Workshop), Malta
• 7-9 February 2004: Second Session of the regional GOOS
forum, Fiji
• February 2004: ODINAFRICA-III Project Steering Committee,
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• 18-20 March 2004: JCOMM MAN-III, Geneva, Switzerland
• 22-24 March 2004: GE-BCDMEP, 2nd Session, Univ Liverpool,
UK
• April 2004: ODINCINDIO Planning Meeting, INCO, Iran
• 6-7 May 2004: Third Session of ICES-IOC SGXML, IODE
Project Office
• 2-4 September 2004: 8th Session of GE-MIM, Hobart,
Australia
• 29 November-1 December 2004: International Conference on
Marine Biodiversity Data Management, Hamburg, Germany
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IODE web sites
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http://www.iode.org
http://www.marinexml.net
http://ioc.unesco.org/medi
http://www.oceans-it.net
http://www.odinafrica.net
http://www.odincarsa.net
http://www.oceanportal.net
http://www.oceanteacher.org
http://www.oceanexpert.net
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We need you!
• Input from GOOS regional alliances:
– Today’s and future data types?
– Today’s and future technology D&IM
needs?
– CB needs?
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Thank you
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