PICES Technical Committee on Data Exchange

WWW TCODE Site

Metadata Federation Project
PICES TCODE GeoNetwork Portal --> Status
PICES TCODE GeoNetwork Portal Project Page
GSDI Clearinhouse --> Status

TCODE Workplan in 2011/2012

1) Continue to support, coordinate, and identify of PICES data and information products
a) MONITOR
Responsibility T. Royer
b) AICE-AP (HAB-S, WGs 21(-2012), 24)
Responsibility – I. Shevchenko and R. Brown (HAB-S)
c) COVE-AP (CC-S, WGs 23(-2011), 26, 27, 28)
Responsibility T. Suzuki
d) SOFE-AP (WG-FCCIFS, SG-HD(-2011))
Responsibility – R. Brown
e) CREAMS/CRP/MBM(-2011)-APs
Responsibility - T. Suzuki

2) Cooperation with other data management groups and activities
a) ICES WG on Data and Information Management (WGDIM)
Responsibility - G. Moiseenko
b) IODE GE-BICH workshop in March 2012
Responsibility - H. Garcia and T. Suzuki
c) IODE SG-ODP-II in February 2012
Responsibility T. Suzuki
d) OBIS and invitation of ex-officio member
Responsibility T. Suzuki

3) PICES Metadata Federation Project
a) Renew Remote server contract
Responsibility - I. Shevchenko
b) Continue to administer AdHost server
Responsibility I. Shevchenko
c) Prepare proposal to renew rented server for another year
Responsibility I. Shevchenko
d) Develop strategy to award and encourage metadata submission
Responsibility All
e) Run the AdHost server performance experiment on accessing metadata from different locations and multiple users
Responsibility I. Shevchenko and all
f) Japan and Korea move their metadata records to the AdHost server
Responsibility T. Suzuki (Japan), (Korea), I. Shevchenko
g) Promote the GeoNetwork Portal
i) Update the Technical report to reflect GeoNetwork
Responsibility I. Shevchenko, H, Garcia, R. Brown

4) Maintain TCODE web pages
Responsibility I. Shevchenko

5) PICES 2012 Topic Session and Best Oral/Poster Presentation
Responsibility T. Koslow (co-conveners)

6) Topic Session and/or Workshop Proposals to PICES 2013 in Nanaimo, Canada
Responsibility All
(Title, blurb, convener, potential invited speaker, and request co-sponsored to other ommittee and FUTURE)

7) POMA 2012 Nomination
Remaining three nominations below will be rolled over to the next year (and beyond) for consideration at the next inter-sessional SB meeting. CalCOFI (California Co-operative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations; U.S.A.), Observers for the British Columbia Shore Station Oceanographic Program (Canada), A-Line (A-Line Monitoring Data Program; Japan). Consider a recommendation of new nomination before February 2012 Rank nominations for POMA 2012 before April 2012

8) Prepare to registration metadata of database of WG-21
Responsibility I. Shevchenko

9) Prepare to production of the North Pacific Ecosystem Status Report third edition
Responsibility T. Royer and R. Brown