4th Session of the IODE Group of Experts on Biological and Chemical Data Management and Exchange Practices

27 - 30 January 2009,

UNESCO/IOC Project Office for IODE
Wandelaarkaai 7 - Pakhuis 61

B-8400 Oostende
Belgium



Agenda



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