Data management activity of
1.
Basic situation
1)
There are two TCODE members in
2)
JODC distributes and makes archival of mainly oceanographic
data.
3)
FRA conducts researches by their own budget or by
funds of Japanese government like Fisheries Agency, however it does not have
its own data center.
4)
FRA’s oceanographic data holdings are
transferred to JODC for archival and distribution.
5)
There are some difficulties for JODC to deal
with data other than Oceanographic ones.
6)
Fisheries Agency has a large semi-closed database
aimed to conduct annual stock assessment, of which data are collected by FRA
and prefectures’ research institutes.
The database is managed by Japan Fisheries
Information Center (JAFIC).
２．Report on the activities of Japan Oceanographic
Data Center (JODC)
Japan Oceanographic Data Center
(JODC) was established in 1965. Since
then, JODC has been fulfilling the role of the synthetic marine data bank of
Contact Person: Satoshi SATO
Address:
Email: mail@jodc.go.jp URL: http://www.jodc.go.jp/
Phone: +81-3-3541-4295 Facsimile: +81-3-3545-2885
In this paper, we present the
outline of our two activities, marine biological data management and
GODAR-WESTPAC (Global Oceanographic Data Archaeology and Rescue project in the
Western Pacific region).
Marine
Biological Data Management
JODC has been tackling the development of
the marine biological data management system under the supervision of the
Marine Biological Data Management Advisory Group, since 1984. This group consists of Japanese researchers,
mainly marine biologists, from universities, research institutes and private
research companies. The first edition of
‘JODC Taxonomic Code of Marine Organisms (Plankton)’ was published in 1988, in
order to manage and process efficiently the marine plankton data obtained by
Japanese research institutions.
Recently, JODC revised the taxonomic code and published the results as
"JODC Taxonomic Code of Marine Organisms (Plankton) 2001 Edition"
with the co-operation of 53 researchers on taxonomy so as to meet the recent
demand for knowledge.
The 2001 Edition contains up to
8,088 marine organisms (8,242 including subspecies). Each species is identified by code composed
of two sets of numbers, Taxonomic Code and Name Code. A Taxonomic Code is a 14-digit integer. A 2-digit
integer is assigned to phylum (division), class, order, family, genus, species,
and subspecies. A Name Code is a 5-digit
integer. It is a one-to-one correspondence with the name of the organism genus
or species. The Taxonomic Code may
change in case that some species changes the taxonomic group in future, but on
the other hand the Name Code will never change.
In addition, JODC has been
developing the new JODC taxonomic code for benthos in the adjacent seas of
JODC has collected the marine
plankton data observed by Japanese institutes, which are standardized by
attaching JODC Taxonomic Code and stored in the JODC marine plankton
database. At present, more than 38,000
profiles of plankton data are available in JODC standard format on J-DOSS (JODC
Data Online Service System: http://www.jodc.go.jp/service.htm),
which is an online data retrieval system operated by JODC.
J-DOSS is open to the world, and
it also provides serial station data, ocean current data, hourly sea level
data, bathymetric data around
GODAR-WESTPAC
GODAR (Global Oceanographic
Data Archaeology and Rescue) has been carried out since 1993, as a project of
IODE, and its project leader is Mr. Sydney Levitus, the Director of World Data
Center for Oceanography,
The goal of GODAR was to increase the
volume of historical oceanographic data available to climate change and other
researchers by locating ocean profile and plankton data sets not yet in digital
form, digitizing these data, and ensuring their submission to national data
centers and the World Data Center System. In addition, data on electronic media
that are at risk of loss due to media degradation are also candidates for
rescue.
On basis of the recognition that there
are large amounts of oceanographic data still in a manuscript form, which are
not open to scientists other than originator in the WESTPAC region, the IODE
Committee approved that the GODAR-WESTPAC be a regional sub-project of the
GODAR. JODC is in charge of the project
office of GODAR-WESTPAC.
The Second International Workshop for
GODAR-WESTPAC will be held at JODC from 10 to
The workshop will be attended by the
representatives of the WESTPAC member countries,
3．Report on the
activities of Fisheries Research Agency(FRA)
Contact Person: Muneharu
Tokimura (tentative)
Address:
Email: tokimura@fra.affrc.go.jp URL: http://www.fra.affrc.go.jp
Phone: +81-829-55-3493 Facsimile: +81-829-54-1216
1)
Data
base
A:A-line data base ( CTD
(T, S), Chl-a
and Nutrients Plankton of south east
http://www.mirc.jha.or.jp/HNF/a-line/index_e.html
B:Off Tohoku Temperature
Field
http://www.myg.affrc.go.jp/kaiyo/temp/temp.html
B:Off Tohoku oceanographic prediction
http://www.myg.affrc.go.jp/kaiyo/kaiyoubu/predict/index-j.html
C:Fishes of the
http://www.snf.affrc.go.jp/sakana/ints.htm
D:Water temperature of
http://www.snf.affrc.go.jp/suion/suionsokuhou.htm
E:Japan sea oceanographic prediction
http://www.jsnf.affrc.go.jp/Physical/ (in Japanese)
2)
New data base (Japan Fisheries Oceanography Database)
The present database is containing data
on fish eggs, fish larvae, plankton, biological data on pelagic fishes like as
sardine or mackerel, and on oceanographic conditions such as water temperature,
which have been collected over a span of 90 years since Taisho era by Japanese
activities for fisheries researches. The database has opened to be utilized as
basic data for fisheries and oceanographic researches on Japanese coasts.
The
database was developed under the collaboration between National Research
Institute of Fisheries Science of Fisheries Research Agency and Japan Science
and Technology Agency as a part of "Project on composing database of
research information". FRA is collecting old (before 1965) biological and
Fisheries data recorded on paper, of oceanography, egg survey, commercial
catch, length frequency (sardine) collected by FRA and prefectures.
These data will be opened as Fisheries
Oceanography Data Base with English summary at ministry’s calculating center in
Tsukuba in next fiscal year.
3)
Data of stock assessment
Annual stock assessment report
(summaries) are opened in home page of FRA and Fisheries Agency (http://abchan.job.affrc.go.jp/ (in
Japanese)), which are renewed in every September.
Results of annual stock assessment of
major stocks are written in English in Ecosystem Status Report.
Detailed stock assessment reports with
the data of commercial catch, catch at age, stock size at age, F table, etc. have
been opened at the same home page since lasts fiscal year (in Japanese).
4)
Soft ware development
Project ”Development of simulating model for
fisheries resources with GIS” is being conducted. The products of the project will
be opened on web in ministry’s calculating center at Tsukuba (http://www.affrc.go.jp/index.html).
A: Construction of oceanographic meta database
and supporting system.
B :Relation between Egg and larvae
distribution and oceanography.
C :Combination of commercial catch data and satellite
information
D :Development of real time oceanographic
monitoring system at mixing area
E :Development of real time oceanographic
monitoring system at Kuroshio area
F :Development of fisheries oceanographic data
circulating system with XML
5)Future plan
For data management, FRA has following two
alternative plans.
A: to have FRA’s own data center
B: to use ministry’s calculating center in
Tsukuba