News
New additions to the SIMORC database
7 March 2021
Early 2021 more data sets added to the SIMORC database.New additions to the SIMORC database in 2020
1 January 2021
The SIMORC database has been expanded and end 2020 covers 12507 datasets.New additions to the SIMORC database
2 September 2019
The SIMORC database has been expanded with more than 3000 extra data sets and now covers 10888 datasets.New datasets added to the SIMORC database
13 September 2018
The SIMORC database has been expanded with another 85 new data sets and now covers 7736 datasets.New entries in the SIMORC database.
30 April 2018
The SIMORC database has been expanded with another 116 new data sets and now covers 7651 datasets.New datasets added to the SIMORC database
19 October 2017
The SIMORC database has been expanded with another 617 new data sets and now covers 7535 datasets.New datasets added to the SIMORC database
20 December 2016
The SIMORC database has been expanded with another 415 new data sets and now covers 6918 datasets.New entries in the SIMORC database
9 November 2016
The SIMORC database has been expanded with another 709 new data sets and now covers 6503 data sets.New entries in the database.
10 April 2016
The SIMORC database has been expanded with another 466 new data sets and now covers 5794 data sets.New entries in the SIMORC database.
21 December 2015
The SIMORC database has been expanded with 850 new data sets and now covers 5328 data sets.New entries in the SIMORC database
20 September 2015
The SIMORC database has been expanded with 689 new data sets from Total and now covers 4478 data sets.More data sets added to SIMORC
12 September 2014
The SIMORC database has been expanded and now covers 3630 data sets.SIMORC database expanded with new entries
17 September 2013
The SIMORC database has been expanded with ca 150 new data sets from Total and BP concerning meteo and wave, currents and sea level data at a number of locations worldwide. More data sets are under prNew entries in SIMORC database
18 April 2012
The SIMORC database has been expanded with ca 270 new data sets from Total and BP concerning meteo and wave, currents and sea level data at a number of locations worldwide. More data sets are under prSIMORC database extended again with new entries
18 November 2011
The SIMORC database has been expanded with ca 148 new data sets from Total and BP concerning meteo and wave, currents and sea level data at a number of locations worldwide. More data sets are under prNew SIMORC Poster
2 February 2011
An up to date poster has been produced and can be downloaded, presenting the SIMORC Service.Strategy paper 2010 on SIMORC Service published
28 December 2010
The SIMORC Strategy document details the functions of SIMORC, how decisions are made on new additional data sets, the benefiNew entries to SIMORC database
13 April 2010
The SIMORC database has been expanded with several hundreds of new data sets from Shell, Total and BP concerning meteo and wave, currents and sea level data at a number of locations wor
SIMORC website upgraded
15 March 2010
The SIMORC portal has been upgraded in look & feel. Moreover the metadata model has been harmonised with the CDI metadata format of the SeaDataNet infrastructure and the data discovery and accessPriviledged access for data providers
12 January 2009
The functionality of the SIMORC service has been expanded with priviledged access for data providers to their own data sets. This implies that staff from Shell, Total and BP have unrestricted access tSIMORC Service agreement signed!
10 December 2008
The SIMORC Service contract has been signed by the first 3 oil & gas companies, Shell, Total and BP. The contract is organised as a Limited Interest Project (LIP) agreement in which OGP members
New SIMORC leaflet
1 March 2008
A second leaflet has been prepared and includes the latest developments of the operational SIMORC Service and its long term arrangement. It has been circulated at the Oceanology International 08 exhibBP presents SIMORC
20 November 2007
BP included SIMORC in a presentation at the Royal Society in London 'Investigating the Oceans - how should UK marine science be organised?'TOR and draft contract for SIMORC service arrangement
1 November 2007
To secure the long term operation of the SIMORC service a Terms of Reference and a final draft have been prepared for a service contract, that will be signed between OGP, representing OGP members, andIODE finalises dedicated SIMORC Training curriculum
1 October 2007
IODE finalised the development of the dedicated SIMORC training curriculum and its inclusion in a new version of OceanTeacher (www.oceanteacher.org). It is
SIMORC Training curriculum under development by UNESCO-IODE
2 July 2007
As part of its training and education activities IODE is developing and incorporating a SIMORC training curriculum in the IODE OceanTeacher training tool.
OceanTeacher is a collection
SIMORC presented at Oceans ’07 conference
1 July 2007
MARIS presented a SIMORC paper and presentation at the Oceans 07 conference, that took place in June 2007 in Aberdeen, Scotland.OGP Highlights newsletter features SIMORC
15 April 2007
OGP Highlights, the monthly newsletter of OGP, features a nice article about SIMORC in its April 2007 issue. You can download and read the Newsletter.International Workshop marks official launch of the SIMORC Service
29 March 2007
The SIMORC Service was officially inaugurated 28th March 2007 by dr Alan Edwards of the European Commission at the successful Workshop on the exchange and availability of ocean data and products.
Major expansion of the SIMORC database
15 February 2007
The SIMORC database has been expanded again, this time with ca. 500 new data sets, concerning meteo and wave, currents and sea level data at a number of locations worldwide. More data sets are under pNew entries to SIMORC database
17 January 2007
The SIMORC database has been expanded with ca. 100 new data sets from Shell, concerning meteo and wave, currents and sea level data at a number of locations worldwide. More data sets are under processRegister as a user to the SIMORC service!
9 October 2006
Scientific and academic organisations are invited to register to the SIMORC service and conclude a User Licence Agreement for their staff members for regular use and access to data sets. This Agree
The SIMORC service is now open
6 October 2006
After a period of testing and finetuning the SIMORC service has officially been launched, right after the OGP - JIP meeting. The SIMORC service provides an index metadatabase and a databa
EU has accepted the periodic activity report for 1st project year
5 September 2006
The SIMORC project started at the 1st June 2005 and a Report has been submitted to the EU concerning the activities and progress made in the 1st project year. Recently this report has been ful
SIMORC prototype under evaluation by project partners
26 July 2006
The SIMORC service consists of an index metadatabase and a database of actual Metocean data sets, that together are accessible through the Internet. The public index metadatabase features a geograp
Periodic activity report submitted to EU for 1st project year
26 July 2006
The SIMORC project started at the 1st June 2005 and recently a Report has been submitted to the EU concerning the activities and progress made in the 1st project year. The actual progress is consideraNext Coordination Group meeting planned for 4th - 5th October 2006
26 July 2006
The 6th meeting of the SIMORC Coordination Group will take place at the 4th - 5th October 2006 and a progress report will be presented to the Committee for Meteorology and Oceanograp
Next Coordination Group meeting planned for 27th June 2006 at BODC
24 May 2006
The next meeting of the SIMORC Coordination Group will take place at the 27th June 2006 and will mark the internal launch of the prototype of the SIMORC Service. This will then be tested by OGP mem
IOC-IODE Recommendation for SIMORC
9 May 2006
The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC) adopted a policy on oceanographic data exchange to promote and to facilitate a wide availability and access to oceanographic and marin
SIMORC User License Agreement formulated and established!
9 May 2006
After consulting with the SIMORC Advisory Board and considering a number of international data policies and licenses a draft was prepared for a SIMORC User License Agreement for scientific and educ
SIMORC leaflet available for downloading
25 March 2006
Great progress with specifications
24 March 2006
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Number of active participants increasing
24 March 2006
Next Coordination Group planned 22nd - 23rd March 2006
26 January 2006
Constructive meeting of SIMORC Advisory Board
23 December 2005
Next SIMORC meeting together with Advisory Board
20 September 2005
SIMORC website launched!
31 August 2005
The SIMORC website has been launched at 1st September 2005 at the domains http://www.simorc.com and
Successful SIMORC meeting at JIP week in Paris
2 August 2005
A successful meeting of the SIMORC Coordination Group took place at 15 and 16 September 2005 in Paris - France. The meeting was combined with sessions at the Metocean JIP (=Joint Industry
SIMORC project started !
8 July 2005
The SIMORC project started at 1st June 2005 in agreement with the European Commission. SIMORC is short for System of Industry Metocean data for the Offshore and Research Communities. The