OceanExpert | Document

Author(s)	Secretariat
Summary	This document provides information on issues related to the operational flow of data and metadata related to marine climatology. In particular, this includes (i) BUFR encoding requirements and template development status for ship data and other marine data, (ii) processes currently used to modify some electronic logbooks, and to document, archive, and harmonize the computational algorithms, (iii) the current status of the hip masking issue related to the concerns expressed by ship owners and masters with regard to ship identification and position being made available via public websites, (iv) the status of the Publication No. 47 and future plans, (v) metadata issues including the status of the Ocean Data Acquisition Systems (ODAS) metadata system hosted by China, efforts across JCOMM to gather current and historical ODAS metadata to be included into this or other databases (e.g., Pub. 47 or JCOMMOPS), and discussion about the most appropriate place for managing the mobile offshore platforms and fixed platforms metadata.
Doc Type	Working Document
Status	Published on 20 Jan 2010
Keywords	ETMC DMVOS MOCS ODAS META-T Pub47 metadata ODASMS
This document is in the list(s):	[Working Documents] Data Management Programme Area
This document is used in the event(s):	Third Session of the Expert Team on Marine Climatology