Overview of Submitted Proposals

Proposal Number	Proposal name	Submitted	Internal Review	Expert Review	Community Review	Recommended	Comments
2010/02	Proposal to adopt ISO 8601 as the standard for the representation of dates and times in Oceanographic Data Exchange	03/06/2010	28/06/2010
2010/01	Proposal to adopt the SeaDataNet Common Data Index metadata profile (CDI) as a Standard for Oceanographic Data Exchange	06/04/2010	07/04/2010
2008/01	_______________ Proposal to Adopt ISO 3166-1 and 3166-3 Country Codes as the Standard for Identifying Countries in Oceanographic Data Exchange	4/2008	5/2008	24/4/2009	28/8/2009	06/01/2010

Proposal 2010/01: Proposal to adopt the SeaDataNet Common Data Index metadata profile (CDI) as a Standard for Oceanographic Data Exchange

Scope:  SeaDataNet is a leading infrastructure in Europe for marine & ocean data management. With support of Member States and the European Commission it is actively operating and further developing a Pan-European infrastructure for managing, indexing and providing access to ocean and marine data sets and data products, acquired via research cruises and other observational activities, in situ and remote sensing. The basis of SeaDataNet is interconnecting 40 National Oceanographic Data Centres and Marine Data Centers from 35 countries around European seas into a distributed network of data resources with common standards for metadata, vocabularies, data transport formats, quality control methods and flags, and access. Thereby most of the NODC’s operate and/or are developing national networks to other institutes in their countries to ensure national coverage and long-term stewardship of available data sets.  ...

Envisaged publication type: The proposal is intended for informing and making all local, national, and international bodies, programs and projects that manage and exchange marine and oceanographic data, aware of the Common Data Index specifications and its implementation in the SeaDataNet infrastructure.

1-Proposal submission

Version 1.0: 6 April 2010

Submitted by:

• Dick M.A. Schaap, Technical Coordinator SeaDataNet, MARIS, The Netherlands
• Gilbert Maudire, Coordinator SeaDataNet, FREMER, France

Files: [only registered users can download the proposal]

• Download the Proposal (PDF) 
• Download Additional File Examples (ZIP)
• Download Additional File Metadata format and additional documents (ZIP)
  

2-Internal review

Was carried out by ETDMP-II Meeting (6-7 April 2010)

3- Expert Review

NOT YET

4- Community Review

NOT YET

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Proposal 2008/01: Proposal to Adopt ISO 3166-1 and 3166-3 Country Codes as the Standard for Identifying Countries in Oceanographic Data Exchange

Scope: This is a proposal to recommend that the international standard ISO 3166 codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions be used to annotate oceanographic and marine meteorological data. The ISO 3166 standard consists of three parts: Part 1, Country codes; Part 2, Country subdivision code; and Part 3, Code for formerly used names of countries. This proposal identifies two parts, ISO 3166-1 and 3166-3, as the country code standard to be adopted and applied for use in the exchange of oceanographic and marine meteorological data. The ISO country codes will replace the IOC country codes currently used by many
data providers.

Envisaged publication type: The proposal is intended for all local, national, and
international bodies, programs and projects that exchange oceanographic and
marine meteorological data. It applies to all instances where a country needs to be
identified within oceanographic and meteorological data or accompanying metadata.

Process (described HERE )

1-Proposal submission

Version 1.0: May 2008

Submitted by: Dr Margarita Gregg (Director, National Oceanographic Data Center, NOAA, Silver Spring, USA) and Daphne Johnson (International Affairs Specialist, National Oceanographic Data Center, World Data Center for Oceanography, Silver Spring, MD, USA)

DOWNLOAD: (pdf) [only registered users can download the proposal]

2-Internal review

Was carried out by Greg Reed and Robert Keeley

3- Expert Review

by: Roy Lowry (BODC), Hjalte Parner (ICES), Mathieu Ouellet (DFO) and Don Collins (USNODC). 

review report date: 24 April 2009

review report: DOWNLOAD (PDF) [only registered users can download the document]

4- Community Review

Based upon the expert review the proposal has been amended to version revision 1. The next step in the process is a Public Review: The Document is available for Download  Proposal 2008/01: Country Codes - Revision 1 - 13 May 2009

(This document is accessible by all)

Comments should be posted on the ODS Bulletin Board

Deadline for comments: 28 August 2009

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