Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission Training Course Report 85

Third ODINCARSA-I Marine Data Management Training Workshop 21 – 26 November 2005 Ostend, Belgium

UNESCO

IOC Training Course Report No. 85

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND ......................................................................... 1 2. VENUE ................................................................................................................................ 1 3. PARTICIPANTS.................................................................................................................. 1 4. COURSE PROGRAMME.................................................................................................... 2 5. RESULTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ......................................................................... 3 ANNEX I – Lesson Schedule.......................................................................................................... 4 ANNEX II – List of Participants..................................................................................................... 5 ANNEX II – List of Participants..................................................................................................... 5 ANNEX III - IODE OceanTeacher Digital Library Table of Contents .......................................... 7 ANNEX IV – Recommendations for NODC Websites in the ODINCARSA Region.................. 15 ANNEX V – Recommended Priorities for Future Training.......................................................... 16 ANNEX VI – Progress Report from Argentina ............................................................................ 17 ANNEX VII – Progress Report from Brazil ................................................................................. 19 ANNEX VIII – Progress Report from Colombia .......................................................................... 20 ANNEX IX – Progress Report from Ecuador ............................................................................... 22 ANNEX X – Progress Report from Mozambique......................................................................... 23 ANNEX XI – Progress Report of Peru ........................................................................................ 24 ANNEX XII – Acronym list ......................................................................................................... 26

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1. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND

The ODINCARSA program has been arranged among the coastal States of South America and

the Caribbean area to provide capacity-building workshops and resource materials in the areas of marine

data management and marine information management. ODINCARSA is a sub-program of the

International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange Program (IODE) of the Intergovernmental

Oceanographic Commission (IOC). The principle focus of the program is to provide sufficient training to

mid-level professionals in the participating countries, so that National Ocean Data Centers (NODCs) and

associated marine libraries can be founded and well managed. The NODCs will, in turn, become part of

the international network of ocean data facilities, which feed data into the World Data Center system.

Through these activities, prospective data managers learn about sources of global and regional data,

useful software systems for managing and analyzing the data, formats and other specifics concerning the

data, and general information about the international systems and programs involved.

The training resource used by the IODE in all marine data and information capacity-building

work is OceanTeacher (www.oceanteacher.org), a multidisciplinary, modular, online resource for formal

and informal education. It consists of an encyclopedic Digital Library of resource documents and a series

of thematic Course Manuals, which direct students through the topical materials. The Digital Library and

the Courses have been under continuous development since 2001, stemming from earlier training

resources in previous IODE capacity-building programs, mainly in Africa.

2. VENUE

The workshop was held at the IOC Project Office for IODE in Ostend, Belgium

(http://www.iode.org/projectoffice/), from November 21-26, 2005. Locally, the meeting was hosted by

Dr. Vladymyrov, with assistance from the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ; http://www.vliz.be/) and

financial support from the Government of Flanders.

3. PARTICIPANTS

This workshop is the third meeting of the first cycle of ODINCARSA data managers. They have

previously completed the basic curriculum (2002) and also completed a special practice teaching

workshop (2003). The list of participants is provided as Annex II. In addition, at the request of the

ODINAFRICA program, a Mozambican student who previously completed the basic curriculum in

Maputo (2003) was invited to attend.

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4. COURSE PROGRAMME

4.1 LECTURES AND PRACTICALS

4.1.1 Workshop Objectives

The IOC/IODE Marine Data Management training curriculum has been designed to provide

participants with knowledge and skills in the following areas:

• The importance of marine data in general, and particularly within participants’ national and

regional environments

• How to set up an oceanographic data center within the IODE System

• The infrastructure requirements, including hardware and software tools

• How to manipulate and analyze the principal types and formats of marine data

• How to produce ocean data products and to disseminate these products, both over the Internet

and by traditional methods

Because OceanTeacher was radically revised in 2004-2005, it was necessary to re-convene the

ODINCARSA group to orient them to the new structure and content of the materials.

4.1.2 Workshop Technical Outline

The following is the outline of the relevant Course Manuals prepared and selected for use in this

workshop. [ID = Interdisciplinary; DM = Data Management] All of the following topics were covered in

lectures and practicals, using basic reference materials contained in the IODE OceanTeacher Digital

Library (outlined in Annex III).

DM 200 OceanTeacher Refresher Course for Data Management Graduates

GOAL To introduce graduates of the Data Management training cycle to major

additions & upgrades to OceanTeacher, especially exercises involving new

data and software

CONTENTS Division One: Oceanography Today

Division Two: Information Technology & Scientific Communication

Division Five: Data Management Principles

Division Six: Oceanographic Data Management Processes

Information Technology Exercises

Data Roadmap Exercises - Score sheet for past and current exercises

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Data Roadmaps: Collection Building

Data Roadmaps: QC with Special Collections

Data Roadmaps: Argo Data

Data Roadmaps: Improved Gridding

Data Roadmaps: OPeNDAP NetCDF Data

Data Roadmaps: Student Selections (integrated into the above)

4.1.3 Special Materials

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4.1.4 Invited Presentations

• Dr. Sergey Konovalov: Special Purpose [Data] Collections – What type of collections

you may need or may be requested?

• Dr. Edward Vanden Berghe: Introduction to Biological Diversity Data Concepts

4.2 EVALUATION & TESTING

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5. RESULTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

The ODINCARSA-I graduates have remained well informed about new developments in

OceanTeacher, so the curriculum was easily and informally covered. They remain one of the best corps

of regional training talent in the IODE marine data management-training program. In addition, the group

was tasked with an informal evaluation of existing websites in the ODINCARSA region (Annex IV) and

with providing recommendations for further training (Annex V). It is strongly advised that this group

should be challenged with regional products, due to their well-displayed talents and eagerness, providing

appropriate support can be identified.

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ANNEX I – Lesson Schedule

[Original schedule; modified according to student vote on Day 2]

Course Lesson Title/Presentation Lecturer/Moderator Date

Opening Activities Welcome and orientation Vladymyrov 21

Reports NODC Activities 2003-2005 21

ID 100: Introduction to OceanTeacher All Brown 21

DM 200: OceanTeacher Refresher Course for Graduates

Division One: Oceanography Today Brown 22

Division Two: Information Technology & Scientific Communication

Reed 22

Division Five: Data Management Principles

Brown 22

Division Six: Oceanographic Data Management Processes

Reed 22

Information Technology Exercises Brown 23

Data Roadmaps Score Sheet Reed 23

Data Roadmaps: Collection Building Brown 23

SPECIAL SESSION Planning and Coordination Session for ODINCARSA Future Activities

Martinez Last quarter of 23

Data Roadmaps: QC with Special Collections

Brown 24

Data Roadmaps: Argo Data Reed 24

Data Roadmaps: Improved Gridding Brown 25

Data Roadmaps: OPeNDAP Data Reed 25

Data Roadmaps: Student Selections Brown 26

N/A Closing Activities Martinez/Vladymyrov

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ANNEX II – List of Participants

STUDENTS ECUADOR Juan José Neito Instituto Oceanográfico de la Armada www.inocar.mil.ecacustica@inocar.mil.ec COLOMBIA Carlos Para Centro de investigiaciones Oceanograficas e Hidrograficas (CIOH) http://www.cioh.org.cocedat@cioh.org.co ECUADOR Katiusca Briones Instituto Oceanográfico de la Armada www.inocar.mil.ecmodelamiento@inocar.mil.ec ARGENTINA Ariel Hernán Troisi Centro Argentino de Datos Oceanográficos www.hidro.gov.ar/ceado/ceado.aspatroisi@hidro.gov.ar PERU Myrian Tamayo Dirección de Hidrografía y Navegación www.naylamp.dhn.mil.penaylamp@dhn.mil.pe CHILE Andrea Devis-Morales Universidad de Concepcion www.cccp.org.cowww.cioh.org.co/cedat/adevis@udec.cl MOZAMBIQUE Clousa Francisco Sarmento Maueua Instituto Nacional de Hdrografia e Navegação (INAHINA) www.inahina.gov.mzClousam@yahoo.com.br BRAZIL Roberto Maisenhelder Banco Nacional de Dados Oceanográficos maisenhelder@chm.mar.mil.br INSTRUCTORS AUSTRALIA Mr. Greg REED

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Australian Ocean Data Centre Joint Facility greg@metoc.gov.au UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Murray Brown Phoenix Training Consultants murraybr@bellsouth.net ADDITIONAL RESOURCE PERSONS BELGIUM Edward Vanden Berghe

Flanders Marine Data and Information Centre wardvdb@vliz.be UKRAINE Sergey Konovalov Marine Hydrophysical Institute Sergey_Konovalov@yahoo.com BELGIUM Wouter Rommens IOC Project office for IODE Wouter.Rommens@vliz.be

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ANNEX III - IODE OceanTeacher Digital Library Table of Contents

1. Global Oceanography Today

1. Sciences of Oceanography 1. Biological Oceanography 2. Chemical Oceanography 3. Geological Oceanography 4. Physical Oceanography 5. Remote Sensing 6. Ancillary & Applied Sciences 7. Oceanography Glossary

2. Collecting Data 1. Introduction to Ocean Datasets 2. Oceanography Data Fundamentals

1. Oceanographic Parameters 2. Oceanographic Measurement Units 3. Temperature and Salinity Scales

3. Ocean Measurement Technology 1. Sampling Devices

1. Tools of Oceanography 2. Biology 3. Chemistry 4. Geology

2. Platforms 1. Vessels

1. Boats & Ships 2. Submersibles

2. Fixed Platforms 1. Piers 2. Moored Buoys 3. Offshore Structures

3. Drifting Buoys & Floats 4. Autonomous Underwater Vehicles 5. Benthic Observatory Nodes 6. Animals

3. Instruments & Sensors 1. Biology 2. Chemistry 3. Geology 4. Physics

4. Instrument Data Processes 1. Within Instruments 2. On Vessels 3. Post-Processing

1. Seabird Training Class Handouts 4. Remote Sensing Technology

1. Parameters & Sensors 2. Sensors & Missions 3. Missions & Data

5. Manuals & Guides 3. Geopolitics of Oceanography 4. Research Oceanography

1. General & Introductory 2. Biological Oceanography 3. Chemical Oceanography 4. Geological Oceanography

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5. Physical Oceanography 6. Remote Sensing

5. Survey Oceanography 1. Resource Surveys 2. Long Time-Series

6. Operational Oceanography 1. Overview 2. Economics of Ocean Observations 3. Data & Information Infrastructure 4. Global Ocean Observing System

1. Local Systems 1. Rutgers 2. Oregon 3. ICON 4. NYHOPS 5. PORTS 6. REINAS 7. SDCOOS 8. SCMI

2. Medium-Scale Systems 1. Black Sea GOOS 2. BOOS 3. EuroGOOS 4. GCOOS 5. GoMOOS 6. GOOS-Africa 7. IOCARIBE-GOOS 8. IOGOOS 9. IOOS 10. MedGOOS 11. NEAR-GOOS 12. NOOS 13. PI-GOOS 14. SEACAMP 15. SEACOOS 16. WAGOOS

3. Observatories 1. ESONET 2. HAWAII-2 3. LEO-15 4. MARS 5. MVCO 6. NEMO 7. NEPTUNE 8. OOI 9. ORION/GEOSTAR

4. Global Systems 1. ARGO 2. GDP 3. GLOSS 4. GOS 5. GTSPP 6. OceanSITES 7. SOOP 8. Tropical Moored Buoys 9. TSUNAMI

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10. VOS 11. WWW

5. Future Technological Needs 7. International Programs, Agencies & Organizations

1. CEOS 2. CLIVAR 3. DBCP 4. DIVERSITAS 5. FAO Fisheries 6. GAIM 7. GCOS 8. GEWEX 9. GLOBEC 10. GODAE 11. GODAR 12. GOSIC 13. GTOS 14. IAPSO 15. ICES 16. ICSU 17. IGBP 18. IGOS 19. IHDP 20. IHO 21. IMBER 22. IOC 23. IOCCG 24. IODP 25. IPCC 26. IUGG 27. JCOMM 28. JGOFS 29. LOICZ 30. OOPC 31. PAGES 32. PICES 33. POGO 34. SCOR 35. SOLAS 36. START 37. UNEP 38. WCRP 39. WMO 40. WOCE 41. Societies & Associations

2. Information Technology & Scientific Communication 1. Computer Technology

1. Computer Systems 1. Storage Media 2. Hardware 3. Operating Systems

1. Windows 2. UNIX

4. An Educator's Guide to School Networks 5. Maintenance 6. Viruses

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2. Databases & Database Management Systems

1. MS Access 2. Other Systems

3. GIS 1. UNESCO GIS Modules 2. Marine GIS 3. GSDI

4. General Applications Software 1. Excel 2. ASCII Editors

5. Oceanographic Software 1. IOC Software Toolbox

1. Adobe Reader 2. ArcExplorer 3. Apache Tomcat 4. Argo Data Explorer 5. CuteFTP 6. Data Thief 7. DXF2XYZ 8. GeoTIFF Examiner 9. GRADS 10. HDF Browser 11. HDFView 12. IrfanView 13. Java/JRE 14. Java OceanAtlas 15. MEDI 16. ncBrowse 17. Ocean Data View 18. Ocean Sneaker Tool 19. Oceanic Calculator 20. OPeNDAP Collector 21. PFE 22. SpreadsheetApps 23. Surfer 24. USGS VPV 25. WinZip

2. IOC Software Catalog 3. Format Conversion Software

6. The Internet 1. World Wide Web 2. Internet Service Providers 3. Electronic Mail 4. Websites

7. Other Telecommunications 8. Markup Languages

1. HTML 2. XML

9. Client-Server Concepts 10. Electronic Navigation Systems

2. Metadata 1. Formal Descriptions of Resources 2. Classifications, Taxonomies, Ontologies 3. Thesaurus Systems 4. Discovery & Descriptive Metadata 5. Metadata Standards & Formats

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6. Crosswalks

3. Information Seeking in Electronic Environments 1. Searching Information 2. Text Retrieval 3. Saving Information

4. Document Production 1. Internal Reports 2. Production 3. Distribution & Sales 4. Document Imaging 5. Full Text 6. Graphics & Images 7. Animation & Video 8. Charts & Graphs 9. Scientist Support 10. Copyright 11. Bibliographic Citation Standards 12. Publishers’ Requirements

5. Information & Technology Programs & Organizations 1. BIOCASE 2. CENDI 3. CODATA 4. DGIR 5. DMAC 6. ESIP 7. GSDI 8. ICSTI 9. IEEE 10. IETF 11. ISO 12. MarineXML 13. MMI 14. OAI 15. OCLC 16. OIT 17. OPeNDAP 18. OpenGIS 19. OpenIOOS 20. THREDDS 21. UNICODE 22. W3C 23. Societies & Associations

3. Information Management Principles - Under construction 4. Ocean Information Management - Under construction 5. Data Management Principles

1. Data Formats 1. ASCII 2. Binary 3. Format Types

1. Document 2. Geo-Referenced Image 3. Gridded 4. Hard Copy 5. Header 6. Mapping-List 7. Mapping-XY

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8. Mapping-GIS 9. Message 10. Relational Database 11. Self-Describing (SDS) 12. Simple Image 13. Spreadsheet 14. Stratified

4. Complexity Progression 2. Scientific Metadata & Systems 3. Quality Control Strategies 4. Data Availability & Access 5. Physical Storage & Safekeeping 6. Data Searching Strategies

6. Oceanographic Data Management Processes 1. Data Operations

1. Planning Documents 2. Data Management Policies & Guidelines 3. Oceanographic Metadata 4. Taxonomic Complexities of Biological Data

1. Taxonomy 2. Data Systems

5. Quality Control 1. Programmatic Aspects 2. Technical Aspects

1. Standards & Comparisons 2. Research & Survey Data 3. Operational Oceanography Data 4. Remote Sensing Data 5. Meteorological Data

6. Oceanographic Formats 1. Marine Data Format Fundamentals

1. Codes 2. Geography

1. Geographic Location 2. Geographic Direction 3. Ocean Squares & Mapsheets 4. Charting

3. Dates & Time 2. Integration Among Major Formats

1. BLN 2. BMP 3. DXF 4. GeoTIF 5. GIF 6. HDF 7. JOS 8. JPG 9. NetCDF 10. SHP 11. TSV-O 12. WOD01 13. XYZ

3. Format Integration Schematics 4. Format Conversion

2. Data Centers & Systems 1. Ocean Data Centers

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1. Intergovernmental Centers

1. IODE Data Center System 1. NODCs and DNAs

1. Establishing an NODC 2. NODC Business Functions

2. RNODCs 3. NODC Websites

2. Hydrographic Service (ICES) 3. Data Standardization

2. Research Project Centers 3. Topical & Operational Data Activities

2. World Data Center System 3. Other Centers & Systems

3. Data Catalogs & Gateways 1. MetOcean Data

1. CSR 2. MEDI 3. EDMED 4. GCMD

2. Remote Sensing Data 3. Ancillary & Applied Data

4. Virtual Centers & Distributed System 5. Data Analyses & Products

1. Working with Biological Data 2. Working with Chemical Data 3. Working with Geological Data 4. Working with Physical Data 5. Working with Remote Sensing Data 6. Working with Meteorological Data 7. Working with Ancillary & GIS Data

1. Preparing Atlases 8. Catalog of Selected Data Analyses & Products

6. Earth System Modeling 1. Modeling the Ocean 2. Modeling Ecosystem Processes

1. Hydrochemical Processes 2. Biological Processes 3. Sedimentation & Erosion 4. Fates & Effects Modeling

3. Operational Modeling 1. FOAM 2. HYCOM 3. MERCATOR 4. MFSTEP 5. NCEP 6. NLOM 7. TOPAZ 8. UK Shelf Seas 9. UK Wave

4. Climate Modeling 7. Operational GIS

7. Examples 8. Exercises

1. Information Technology Exercises 2. Information Exercises 3. Data Management Exercises

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1. Instructor Whiteboards

1. Africa Whiteboard 2. South America Whiteboard

2. Hand Contouring 3. Data Roadmaps 4. Data Processing with Excel 5. Processing Seabird CTD Data with Seabird Software

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ANNEX IV – Recommendations for NODC Websites in the ODINCARSA Region

• First of all, it is important to evaluate human resources and equipment availability in order to

establish the type and characteristics of the site.

• Each NODC should have an English abstract that explains the main objectives and services

available.

• Be aware of the importance of the fonts, images: they should be easy to read, the text distribution

should be easy to understand, images should not be heavy so they can be loaded faster.

• If you are going to use links that need to be updated often, be aware of your capabilities, or use

dynamic links.

• It is recommended to have an adequate scheme for organizing (news, products & services), (data

& information), (activities) and (related links), so they can be easily reach.

• To use a site map.

• Each web page should use links to go back and home, to avoid getting lost.

• Links should be as simple as possible to avoid unnecessary jumps.

• If you want to keep a track of the visits on your web site is important to put a statistics link

• There should always be a contact link

• Use clear fonts

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ANNEX V – Recommended Priorities for Future Training

The group of data managers were asked to provide general guidance to the IODE regarding what

types of additional Capacity-Building (CB) they would like in the future. This is the text of their

response:

During the last quarter of Friday 25 the group discussed future steps in CB using the OceanTeacher

training curricula as a basis. The group considered that even though the curricula offered

opportunities on several issues the current budgetary constraints posed a serious limitation, and

thus decided to prioritize CB activities.

In order to respond to current and new requirements, top priorities were assigned to "Operational

Oceanography Data Management" and "Ocean Modeling Data Support", with a second priority

for "Geographic Information Systems". This last issue was carefully considered and the

conclusion was that given the widespread influence of GIS there might be alternate mechanisms

to create/update/upgrade capacities in the region, while for operational oceanography or ocean

modeling there are not many "avenues" to explore from the point of view of data

management and NODC's.

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ANNEX VI – Progress Report from Argentina Spanish version

• Se han generado productos de datos en apoyo a relevamientos oceanográficos y actividades de

oceanografía operacional en areas de interés a partir de bases de datos propias y el WOD 2001,

utilizando el ODV para su visualización, presentación y difusion.

• Como complemento de las actividades del Centro Regional de Datos Argo del Atlántico Sur

(SAARDAC) se generaron productos de datos (distribución de T y S) a partir de información de boyas

Argo obtenida a través del servidor Coriolis.

• Se introdujo la gestión de datos como línea de acción prioritaria en el plan de actividades de la Alianza

Regional en Oceanografía para el Atlántico Sudoccidental Superior (OCEATLAN)

• Se incorporó la gestión de datos oceanográficos en los planes de instrucción de Suboficiales

Oceanógrafos usando el Ocean Teacher como herramienta. Dicho tema fue tambien incorporado a la

curricula del Curso de Capacitación en Oceanografía para Oficiales del Cuerpo de Comando y el Curso

Complementario Profesional con orientación hacia el análisi y síntesis de datos y generación de

productos.

• Se adiestró a personal embarcado en el uso del ODV como apoyo a las taresa de los grupos de

investigación.

• Se utilizó el ODV como herramienta para la generación de material de instrucción en el Curso de

Navegación Antártica del Instituto Argentino de Navegación.

• En cooperación con el proyecto “Protección Ambiental del Río de la Plata y su Frente Marítimo:

Prevención y Control de la Contaminación y Restauración de Hábitats” se desarrolló una interface de

carga, administración y búsqueda de metadatos del Atlántico Sudoccidental tomando como referencia

el FGDC.

• Se incrementaron los esfuerzos por difundir las actividades, productos y oportunidades que ofrece tanto

el Centro de Datos como la red ODINCARSA, participando en congresos y reuniones técnicas a nivel

nacional y regional.

English versión

• They have generated data products in support of oceanographic research and activities of operational

oceanography in interest areas starting from data sets and WOD 2001, utilizing ODV to visualize,

present and distribute the data.

• Data products (temperature-salinity plots) have been produced starting from ARGO buoy data obtained

through the Coriolis server, complementary to the activities of the Centro Regional de Datos Argo del

Atlantico Sur (SAARDAC).

• Data management has been proposed as a priority action in the management plan of OCEATLAN.

• Data management has been incorporated in the instruction plans of the oceanographers at the office.

Ocean Teacher was used as a tool. This subject also was incorporated to curricula of the Advanced

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training course in Oceanography for Officials of the Operational and the Professional Complementary

Course with direction towards analysis and synthesis of data and data product generation.

• It was trained to personnel embarked in the use of the ODV like support to the taresa of the

investigation groups.

• The ODV tool was used for the generation of training equipment in the Antarctic Navigation Course of

the Argentine Institute of Navigation.

• An interface of data uploading, administration and metadata search of the South-west Atlantic was

developed in cooperation with the project "Environmental Protection of the Río de la Plata and its

Marine Front: prevention and control of contamination and restoration of habitats” with the FGDC as a

reference.

• The efforts were increased to spread the activities, products and opportunities that the Datacenter serves

in the ODINCARSA network, participating in congresses and technical meetings at national and

regional level.

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- ANNEX VII – Progress Report from Brazil

• The development of a new database model consisting of 58 tables and many relationships among the

data.

• The definition of many types of restraints supported by the database management system (DBMS).

For instance, if any end-user tries to insert in the database an unreasonable temperature value then the

DBMS will not let it happen. The front-end software does not need to deal with this kind of situation.

• The DBMS has been changed. The former DBMS was very expensive and the development team was

not going to support that system anymore. The actual DBMS is a product called MySQL. That is a

fast, reliable, user friendly and free DBMS. This step was a little bit difficult because there are many

different DBMSs in the market nowadays.

• The data load procedure has started. Now, there are millions of data stored in the BNDO`s database.

But, a lot of work still has be done because in every moment new data come up. The major problem

concerning the data load procedure is the data format. Data formats change all the time. Therefore, it

is necessary to make a big effort to convert a specific type of data (for example, CTD) into a format

that it’s easy to load.

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ANNEX VIII – Progress Report from Colombia

Spanish version

• Antes del Curso realizando en Cartagena en octubre del 2003, el Centro Control Contaminación del

Pacífico (CCCP), de la Armada Nacional de Colombia, no contaba con un espacio adecuado para

organizar y archivar los datos e información recolectada, sino que cada grupo era responsable de sus

datos. Después del Segundo Curso ODINCARSA en Manejo de datos oceanográficos se mejoró en la

organización de datos y metadatos, utilizando estructuras adecuadas para organizar las carpetas,

formatos de intercambio internacional y se crearon archivos de metadatos que antes no existían,

además se logró interesar a todos los grupos de investigación en la importancia de participar

activamente en el NODC

• Se realizó entrenamiento a personal de suboficiales a partir del curso básico e intermedio del Ocean

Teacher, después de lo cual se designaron nuevos Data Managers, los cuales son los encargados de

organizar los datos e información adquirida en campañas de muestreo realizadas en el CCCP.

• Se creó y se mantiene actualizada la metadata del grupo de oceanografía, la cual incluye información

de 39 cruceros oceanográficos y datos recopilados por más de 30 años en muestreos costeros

realizados en el Pacífico colombiano.

• Se desarrolló una nueva estructura de organización de los datos la cual fue usada como base para

crear un nuevo software (CENIMAR) de manejo y archivo de datos que es aplicable a todos los

grupos de investigación de la Armada Nacional (se encuentra en etapa de implementación en el

CCCP y el CIOH).

• Se realizó parte de la traducción al español del curso básico en Manejo de Datos Oceanográficos del

Ocean Teacher.

• Se realizó en Cartagena el Primer Taller de trabajo sobre en Centro Colombiano de Datos e

Información Oceanográfica (21 a 23 julio 2004), en el cual se presentó a la comunidad científica

marina de Colombia los servicios del NODC y se acordó la estandarización y el intercambio de los

datos.

• Se planea la difusión extensiva del Ocean Teacher a través de cursos a estudiantes de la Escuela

Naval, y las universidades de biología marina del país.

• Se encuentra en la primera etapa de desarrollo un Atlas Oceanográfico para el Pacífico colombiano.

• Se espera dar funcionalidad al software CENIMAR, con el fin de unificar toda la información y datos

de los distintos grupos de investigación científica de la Armada Nacional de Colombia.

English versión

• Before the Course organized in Cartagena (October 2003), the Centro Control Contaminación del

Pacífico (CCCP), of the National Navy of Colombia, did not have an adapted space to organize and

to store the data and collected information. Each group was responsible for its data. Following the

Second ODINCARSA course in Oceanographic data management, the organization of data and

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metadata was improved, using suitable structures to organize the folders and international exchange

formats. Archives of metadata were created, that did not exist before. In addition to this, the

importance of participating actively in the NODC was teached to all the research groups.

• A training for personnel of sergeant-majors was organized based on the basic and intermediate

courses of OceanTeacher. After these courses they were designated as new Data Managers. They are

in charge of organizing the data and the data acquired during sampling campaigns of the CCCP.

• The metadata of the oceanography group was created and is kept updated, it includes information of

39 oceanographic cruises and data collected by more than 30 years in coastal samplings of the

Colombian Pacific.

• A new structure to organize the data was developed which was used as a basis for the new data

handling and data filing software (CENIMAR). This software is used by all research groups of the

National Navy. It is in stage of implementation in the CCCP and the CIOH.

• Part of the basic Ocean Data Management of the Ocean Teacher has been translated into Spanish.

• The first workshop was organized in Cartagena in the Colombian Center of Oceanographic Data and

Information from the 21st until the 23st of July 2004. It was addressed to the marine scientific

community of Columbia. During the course the importance of the NODC and standardization and

exchange of data was stressed.

• The extensive use of Ocean Teacher in courses to students of the Naval school and at universities of

marine biology is planned.

• The development an Oceanographic Atlas for the Colombian Pacific is in a first stage.

• It is hoped that the CENIMAR software is functional to unify all the information and data of the

different scientific research groups of the National Navy of Colombia.

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• ANNEX IX – Progress Report from Ecuador Spanish version

• Continuación del proceso de Arqueología de Datos, mediante el cual se ha rescatado el 80% de los

datos en papel, de anteriores sistemas y de diferentes medios de almacenamiento.

• Continuación del proceso de metadata, mediante el ingreso del 80% de la información histórica y

actual de los datos.

• Desarrollo el Sistema de Información Hidrográfica y Oceanográfica (SIHO), el cual está orientado a

almacenar, procesar y distribuir los datos oceanográficos e hidrográficos. La base datos fue

desarrollado en Oracle en un formato estandar (Formato DIF), la misma almacena datos

oceanográficos e hirdrográficos obtenidos desde 1971 de cruceros y estaciones fijas.

• Elaboración de la climatología para la estación seca y húmeda de temperatura superficial del mar,

salinidad y oxigeno para el mar ecuatoriano utilizando datos del WOD2001 y cruceros locales (XBT,

CTD y botellas).

• Curso de entrenamiento de SURFER basado en el Ocean Teacher, dictado para para el personal

científico del INOCAR.

• Presentación infroductoria del OceanTeacher para el personal científico del INOCAR.

• Organización del curso de Calidad de Datos Oceanográficos para inicios del año 2006.

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• Data archaeology is continued, 80% of the data in paper, previous systems and different storage

medias have been rescued.

• Continuation of the metadata process, by means of the entering of 80% of the historical and present

information of the data.

• Development of the Hydrographic and Oceanographical Information System (SIHO), that is oriented

towards storing, processing and distribution of oceanographic and hydrographic data. The base data

was developed in Oracle in a DIF format

• The same database stores oceanographic and hydrographical data collected from cruises and fixed

stations starting from 1971.

• Elaboration of the climatology for the dry and humid surface temperature station of the sea, salinity

and oxygen for the Ecuadorian sea using local data of the WOD2001 and cruises (XBT, CTD and

bottles). ·

• Surfer Training Course SURFER based on the Ocean Teacher, dictation stops for the scientific

personnel of the INOCAR. Introduction to Ocean Teacher for the scientific personnel of INOCAR.

• Organization of a course on Quality control of Oceanographic Data (2006).

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ANNEX X – Progress Report from Mozambique

Mozambique had ocean teacher trainer course in july 2003, from that date until now we updated

our database with physical, biology and chemistry data for our area of interest. We did a cruise summary

report (CSR) of 2 cruises in Mozambique Channel. With GEBCO we had a bathymetric data of Incomatí

River for help some students in his thesis.

The very important point is that in our meeting, April 18, 2005, the institutions contributed with

information and methods to have a success.

Products:

• Update of our website

• Metadata updated

• Data quality control

• Brochure, in Portuguese showing our products of ocean teacher and data collection

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ANNEX XI – Progress Report of Peru

Desde el curso en el 2003, en Cartagena de Indias – Colombia, la Dirección de Hidrografía y Navegación

(DHN) del Perú, tomo la iniciativa de establecer el Centro Nacional de Datos Oceanográficos (CNDO),

con la finalidad de colaborar con la recopilación e intercambio de datos oceanográficos en el País. Para

ello se propuso segir los siguientes pasos:

• Desarrollar e investigar el Programa OCEAN TECAHER, con el apoyo del personal científico del

Departamento de Medio Ambiente de la DHN, con la finalidad de que paralelamente se valide sus

productos para la aplicación en la investigación oceanográfica del país.

• Elaboración del “Manual Práctico OCEAN TEACHER para el Mar Peruano”, con este documento se

trata de explicar las bondades que tiene la aplicación clara y sencilla de los procedimientos del

manejo de este programa con la solución con los datos peruanos.

• El curso “OCEAN TEACHER” a sido incorporado en la curricula preliminra en la Escuela de

calificación en Hidrografia de la Marina de Guerra del Perú, para los alumnos oficiales que se

graduan en el tema de las ciencias del ambiente.

• El 19 de octubre 2005, en la DHN, se realizó la Conferencia sobre la formación del CNDO-Perú. La

mencionada conferencia contó con la presencia de los representantes del Servicio Nacional de

Meteorología e Hidrología, Instituto del Mar del Perú, Instituto Geofísico del Perú, Universidad

Nacional Agraria La Molina, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Universidad Nacional

Federico Villareal, Universidad Nacional José Faustino Sánchez Carrión, la Universidad Nacional del

Callao y la Dirección de Hidrografía y Navegación. En la mencionada reunión, se presentaron los

objetivos, resoluciones y recomendaciones que fueron establecidas en la ultima reunión del

Intercambio Internacional de Datos e Información Oceanográfica, (IODE) de la Comisión

Oceanográfica Intergubernamental (COI), realizada en Ooestende-Bélgica entre el 26-30 de abril

2005, para optimizar el funcionamiento de los CNDOs.

• Asimismo, y como inicio de las actividades del CNDO-Perú, se entregó copia del Manejador de

Datos OCEAN TEACHER, el cual esta siendo empleado por los países miembros de la COI-IODE,

para el procesamiento y almacenamiento de los datos oceanográficos; así como, los datos obtenidos

en el Crucero Oceanográfico binacional entre Chile y Perú del año 2004, con la finalidad de

incentivar la investigación oceanográfica en el país.

• Se ha comenzado a dictar el Curso “Manejo del OCEAN TEACHER", en las universidades e

instituciones relacionadas con el manejo de datos ambientales, para lo cual se ha establecido un

programa de actividades durante el 2005-2006.

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After the course in 2003 in Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), the Direction of Hydrography and

Navegacio'n (DHN) of Peru, started the initiative to establish the National Oceanographic Data Center for

Peru, with acquisition, compilation and exchange of data as main task.

The following steps were taken to achieve this:

• Investigation of the possibility of OceanTeacher to instruct scientific staff of the Department del

Medio Ambiente, to be able to use the OceanTeacher products in Oceanographic research in the

country.

• Development of a practical manual ‘Manual del Ocean Teacher para el mar Peruano’ in Spanish

for internal use. This manual explains clearly and simple the procedures of handling and

processing oceanographic data of the Peruan seas.

• An ‘OceanTeacher’ course is incorporated in the preliminary curricula of the Hydrographic

school of the Peruan navy, for student that study environmental sciences.

• A conference on the establishment of an Oceanographic Data Centre in Peru was organized on

the 19th of October 2005. During this conference, representatives of the National Meteorological

and Hydrological Service, the National Marine Institute of Peru, The San Marcos University, The

Molina Agricultural University, The National University Federico Villareal, The National

University Jose Faustino Sanchez Carrion, The National University of the Callao and the

Directorate of Hydrography and Navigation were present. During this meeting, the objectives,

resolutions and recommendations were set up to meet the requirements for the establishment of

NODCS of the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) of IOC.

• We started with using OceanTeacher as course material during courses at universities in Peru.

This begun in 2005-2006.

• A copy of the ‘Manual del OceanTeacher Para El Mar Peruano’ was provided to IODE for use in

the member states of the IOC-IODE, as well as the data collected during the Chilean-Peruan

Oceanographic Cruise..

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ANNEX XII – Acronym list CB Capacity Building

DM Data managers

GOOS Global Ocean Observing System (IOC-WMO-UNEP-IOSU)

IOC Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (of UNESCO)

IODE International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange Program

JCOMM WMO/IOC Joint Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology

ODINCARSA Ocean Data and Information Network for IOCARIBE and South America