19th Session of the IOC Committee on IODE

12 - 16 March 2007,

Trieste
Italy

Annotated Agenda

1 OPENING
2 ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENTS
2.1 ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA
2.2 DESIGNATION OF A RAPPORTEUR
2.3 SESSION TIME TABLE AND DOCUMENTATION
2.4 ESTABLISHMENT OF SESSIONAL WORKING GROUPS
2.5 LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
3 STATUS OF IODE
3.1 CHAIR'S REPORT
3.2 IMPLEMENTATION STATUS OF THE IODE-18 WORK PLAN
3.3 REPORT ON INTER-SESSIONAL MEETINGS OF THE IODE OFFICERS
3.4 REPORTS OF NODCs AND DNAs
3.5 REPORT OF THE IODE PROJECT OFFICE
3.6 ACTIVITIES OF THE RNODCs AND WORLD DATA CENTRES
3.7 FOLLOW UP TO THE IODE REVIEW
3.8 IODE DATA FLOW
3.9 QUALITY CONTROL/ QUALITY ASSESSMENT
4 STRUCTURAL ISSUES
4.1 RESTRUCTURING OF THE IOC AND ITS IMPACT ON IODE
4.2 IMPACT OF THE IODE REVIEW AND FOLLOW-UP
4.3 ROLE OF NODCs AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL
5 COOPERATION WITH OTHER PROGRAMMES
5.1 COOPERATION WITH GOOS
5.2 COOPERATION WITH JCOMM
5.3 COOPERATION WITH WMO
5.4 COOPERATION WITH GEO/GEOSS
5.5 COOPERATION WITH IOC SCIENCE AND MONITORING PROGRAMMES
5.6 COOPERATION WITH IPY
5.7 OTHERS
6 PROGRAMME ACTIVITIES: PROGRESS REPORTS AND FUTURE PLANNING
6.1 GROUPS OF EXPERTS
6.1.1. IODE Group of Experts on Biological and Chemical Data Management and Exchange Practises (GEBICH)
6.1.2 IODE Group of Experts on Marine Information Management (GEMIM)
6.1.3 JCOMM/IODE Expert Team on Data Management Practices (ETDMP)
6.2 PROJECTS
6.2.1 Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA)
6.2.10 OceanTeacher (see 6.3.2.2)
6.2.11 SeaDataNet (and related)
6.2.12 SIMORC
6.2.13 New initiatives: Ocean Data Portal
6.2.14 Other
6.2.2 Global Oceanographic Data Archaeology and Rescue (GODAR)
6.2.3 Global Temperature and Salinity Profile Programme (GTSPP)
6.2.4 Global Ocean Surface Underway Data Pilot Project (GOSUD)
6.2.5 Development of a marine XML (marineXML)
6.2.6 Marine Environmental Data Inventory (MEDI)
6.2.7 Global Directory of Marine and Freshwater Professionals (OceanExpert)
6.2.8 Development of e-repositories (OceanDocs)
6.2.9 OceanPortal (including regional OceanPortals)
6.3 IODE CAPACITY BUILDING
6.3.1 IODE's regional capacity building projects: ODIN
6.3.1.1 Ocean Data and Information Network for Africa (ODINAFRICA)
6.3.1.2 Ocean Data and Information Network for the Caribbean and South America regions (ODINCARSA)
6.3.1.3 Ocean Data and Information Network for the Central Indian Ocean Region (ODINCINDIO)
6.3.1.4 Ocean Data and Information Network for European Countries in Economic Transition (ODINECET)
6.3.1.5 Ocean Data and Information Network for the Western Pacific region (ODIN-WESTPAC)
6.3.1.6 Black Sea Region
6.3.1.7 Pacific Islands
6.3.1.8 Other regions
6.3.2 IODE Training Programme
6.3.2.1 Training activities at the IOC Project Office for IODE
6.3.2.2 OceanTeacher
6.3.3 New requirements in regional capacity building
6.3.4 National data and information management capacity building requirements
6.3.5 IODE capacity building strategy (see also 8.2)
7 IODE PUBLIC AWARENESS
7.1 IODE WEB SITES
7.2 IODE BROCHURES, POSTERS AND PUBLICATIONS
7.3 NATIONAL IODE AWARENESS ACTIVITIES
7.4 OTHER
8 IODE VISION AND STRATEGY
8.1 IOC OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA EXCHANGE POLICY: IMPLEMENTATION BY MEMBER STATES
8.2 IOC STRATEGIC PLAN FOR OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA AND INFORMATION EXCHANGE
9 REQUIRED RESOURCES AND PLAN OF ACTION FOR 2007 (CURRENT UNESCO BIENNIUM) AND 2008-2009 (NEXT UNESCO BIENNIUM)
10 ELECTIONS OF CHAIR AND VICE-CHAIR
11 DATE AND PLACE OF IODE-XX
12 ADOPTION OF THE SUMMARY REPORT
13 CLOSURE