UNESCO/IOC Project Office for IODE
Wandelaarkaai 7 - Pakhuis 61
B-8400 Oostende
Belgium
| 1. | OPENING OF THE SESSION |
| 1.1. | Welcome |
| 1.2. | Adoption of the agenda |
| 2. | REPORT ON INTERSESSIONAL ACTIVITIES |
| 2.1. | Issues remaining from GE-BICH-II |
| 2.1.1. | Pilot Project on Nomenclators (GE-BICH II 4.4.3.) |
| 2.1.2. | Document on need of Data Management (GE-BICH II 4.1.1.) |
| 2.1.3. | XML Registry |
| 2.1.4. | Contribution to Ocean Teacher |
| 2.2. | Status of implementation of the GE-BICH-III action plan |
| 2.2.1. | Organisation of the “Ocean Biodiversity Informatics-II” Conference |
| 2.2.2. | Topics arising from the GE-BICH III meeting |
| 2.2.3. | Other action items arising from GE-BICH III |
| 2.3. | Issues arising from IODE-XIX |
| 2.3.1. | Revision of the Terms of Reference of GE-BICH (Recommendation IOC/IODE-XIX-3) |
| 2.3.2. | Cooperation with IOC/IPHAB on the development of the HAIS |
| 3. | NEW ISSUES OF RELEVANCE TO GE-BICH |
| 3.1. | Ocean Data Standards Pilot Project |
| 3.2. | OceanDataPortal Project |
| 3.3. | Standards for chemical data and metadata exchange in SeaDataNet |
| 3.4. | Presentation of the ICES data management activities, WG-DIM and the ecosystems database |
| 3.5. | CDIAC (Carbon Dioxide Information Centre) Ocean Data Management Activities |
| 3.6. | Plankton functional types and the green ocean modelling initiative - report from the Eur-Oceans Cambridge meeting |
| 3.7. | Perspective on collaborative research environments offered by D4Science project |
| 4. | IODE ORGANIZATIONAL REFORM AND ITS IMPACT ON GE-BICH |
| 4.1. | Relationship between OBIS and IOC and its impact on GE-BICH |
| 4.2. | Implications of Recommendation IODE--XIX.2 (Strategy and Structure of IODE Groups of Experts) for GE-BICH |
| 4.3. | Implications of the IOC Strategic Plan for Oceanoraphic Data and Information Exchange on GE-BICH |
| 5. | STRATEGIC PRIORITIES FOR GE-BICH |
| 6. | STANDARDS AND VOCABULARIES FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL DATA |
| 6.1. | Biological taxonomic standards |
| 6.2. | Controlled vocabulary for biological and chemical data types and gears |
| 6.2.1. | Controlled vocabulary for biological/chemical sampling gears |
| 6.2.2. | Controlled vocabulary for biological/chemical data types |
| 6.3. | Standards and vocabularies for the management of ocean acidification data |
| 6.4. | Action plan including recommendations and possible input to Ocean Data Standards Pilot Project |
| 7. | QUALITY CONTROL/ QUALITY ASSESSMENT PROCEDURES |
| 7.1. | Review of numerical criteria used in different data centres for chemical parameters QC |
| 7.2. | Methods of quality control of biogeochemical data submitted to the MHI database |
| 7.3. | Recommendations for the QC of biological and chemical data: priorities, existing procedures/expert groups for given compounds, applicability of existing QC flags |
| 8. | TRAINING AND EDUCATION RELATED TO GE-BICH: CONTRIBUTION TO OCEANTEACHER |
| 9. | WORK PLAN AND REQUIRED RESOURCES FOR THE NEXT INTER-SESSIONAL PERIOD |
| 10. | ANY OTHER BUSINESS |
| 11. | ELECTION OF (CO-)CHAIR(S) |
| 12. | DATE AND PLACE OF NEXT SESSION |
| 13. | ADOPTION OF THE SUMMARY REPORT |
| 14. | CLOSURE |