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Great progress with specifications  

24 March 2006

At the 4th Coordination Group and OGP JIP Metocean Committee meetings 22nd - 23rd March 2006 great progress was presented. The following items are nearly finalized :

  • metadata format for data sets: subset of ISO19115 and extended version of Sea-Search Common Data Index format => CDI+
  • metadata format for publications: subset of Dublin Core - ISO15836-2003
  • data format: BODC ASCII and NetCDF (Woce - Ocean Sites)
  • User interface specifications and handling of data requests
  • User License Agreement for scientific & eductional users 
  • Protocol for Other users
  • Data Quality Control procedures manual     

These documents are available to SIMORC participants via the extranet, but will also soon be available in the public domain on this website.