Marine Data Standards:
The value of standards for the management and exchange of oceanographic data has always been acknowledged. There have been many efforts to develop common standards and data frameworks but these have never been widely adopted by the community.
In January, 2008, the IODE and JCOMM convened a workshop entitled the IODE/JCOMM Forum on Oceanographic Data Management and Exchange Standards [1], to consider selected principal issues on establishing marine data standards, with the goal of furthering marine data interoperability. In particular the aim of the workshop was to get broad agreement and commitment to adopt a number of standards related to ocean data management and exchange, thereby assembling not only the agreed conditions by which we operate, but in fact enact these agreements in the participants' respective organizations.
The value of standards for the management of oceanogarphic data and exchange has always been acknowledged. There have been many efforts to develop common standards and data frameworks for processing data but these have never been widely adopted by the community. The IODE/JCOMM Forum on Oceanographic Data Management and Exchange Standards established a process for submitting proposed standards and their acceptance by the ocean community.
The standards that are pro
This 5-step process, presented in the figure, are propsal submission, internal review, expert review, community review, and recommedation. The process from submission through to evaluation may result in a recommended standard for IOC and WMO member/member states. Documentation of the proposal and comments generated through the review will be available through a web site. [2].