UNESCO/IOC Project Office for IODE
Wandelaarkaai 7 - Pakhuis 61
B-8400 Oostende
Belgium
| 1. | OPENING OF THE SESSION |
| 1.1. | WELCOME |
| 1.2. | INTRODUCTION OF PARTICIPANTS |
| 1.3. | ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA |
| 2. | INTERSESSIONAL ACTIVITIES |
| 2.1. | STATUS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE GE-BICH-IV WORK PLAN (Recommendation IODE/GE-BICH-IV.1) |
| 2.1.1. | GE-BICH wiki |
| 2.1.2. | Vocabularies |
| 2.1.3. | QA/QC workshop |
| 2.1.4. | Best practices for data reporting and data exchange |
| 2.2. | ISSUES ARISING FROM IODE-XX |
| 2.2.1. | New revised Terms of Reference of GE-BICH (Resolution IODE-XX.1) |
| 2.2.2. | Cooperation with IPHAB on the development of HAIS (resolution IODE-XX.2) |
| 2.2.3. | Integration of OBIS into the IOC/IODE structure |
| 3. | SPLIT SESSION |
| 3.1. | VOCABULARIES |
| 3.2. | SUBMISSIONS TO OCEAN DATA STANDARDS |
| 4. | VOCABULARIES AND ONTOLOGIES |
| 4.1. | ISSUES PENDING FROM GE-BICH-IV |
| 4.1.1. | Plankton sampling gears |
| 4.1.10. | Non-taxonomic plankton groups |
| 4.1.2. | Trawl sampling gears |
| 4.1.3. | Water samplers |
| 4.1.4. | Sediment samplers |
| 4.1.5. | Chemical sensors amd analysers |
| 4.1.6. | Chemical methods |
| 4.1.7. | in situ Imaging systems |
| 4.1.8. | Biological analytical instruments |
| 4.1.9. | Life cycles and life stages |
| 4.2. | WORK ON VOCABULARIES AT BCO-DMO |
| 4.3. | FAO ACTIVITIES AND D4SCIENCE TECHNOLOGIES |
| 4.4. | THE WAY FORWARD |
| 4.4.1. | Governance and maintenance issues |
| 4.4.2. | Priorities for 2011-2012 work plan |
| 5. | QUALITY CONTROL/QUALITY ASSESSMENT PROCEDURES |
| 5.1. | OUTCOME OF THE QA/QC WORKSHOP |
| 5.2. | EMODNET QC/QA GUIDELINES |
| 5.3. | BLACKSEASCENE QA/QC ACTIVITIES AND UPDATES ON OTHER INITIATIVES |
| 5.4. | RESULTS OF FOLLOW-ON ACTIONS FROM QC/QA WORKSHOP |
| 5.4.1. | Development of quantifiable QC checks |
| 5.4.2. | QC flags |
| 5.5. | QA/QC PRIORITIES FOR 2011-2012 WORKPLAN |
| 6. | COLLABORATION WITH IPHAB ON HAIS DEVELOPMENT |
| 7. | COLLABORATION WITH GE-OBIS |
| 8. | SURVEY ON PROVISION OF/ACCESS TO CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL DATA VIA SDN AND IODE ODP PORTALS |
| 8.1. | SDN vs ODP: how to contribute chemical and biological data |
| 8.2. | SDN vs ODP: how to discover and access chemical and biological data |
| 8.3. | Presentation by Toru Suzuki |
| 8.4. | Discussion |
| 9. | STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING ACCESS TO BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL DATA |
| 10. | TRAINING AND EDUCATION RELATED TO HE-BICH: CONTRIBUTION TO OCEANTEACHER |
| 11. | WORK PLAN AND REQUIRED RESOURCES FOR THE NEXT INTER-SESSIONAL PERIOD |
| 12. | MEMBERSHIP ISSUES |
| 13. | ANY OTHER BUSINESS |
| 14. | ELECTION OF (CO-)CHAIR(S) |
| 15. | ADOPTION OF THE REPORT |
| 16. | DATE AND PLACE OF NEXT SESSION |
| 17. | CLOSING OF THE SESSION |