ICAN Steering Group members Ned Dwyer, Dawn Wright, Lucy Scott and Linda Pikula demonstrated the strong commitment of ICAN to IODE at the IODE-XXIII meeting held from 17-20 March 2015 in Bruges, Belgium. This biannual meeting was attended by representatives of all IODE projects, delegates from the National Oceanographic Data Centres of IOC member countries and observer projects. The proposed ICAN work plan and budget proposal for 2016-2017 was accepted by the Committee underlining that ICAN activities are of great relevance to IODE members.
Other IODE projects presented during the meeting and of particular interest to ICAN include OceanDocs and Ocean Data Practices. OceanDocs (http://www.oceandocs.org/) is an e-repository of scientific publications related to marine science and oceanography which ICAN should take advantage of for its own holdings. The Ocean Data Practices service (http://www.oceandatapractices.net/) which is aimed at promoting the use of common methodologies in ocean data and information management and improved interoperability between these systems could also be a mechanism ICAN could use to disseminate its own best-practice guides.
- The ICAN plan and budget is available at:
http://www.iode.org/index.php?option=com_oe&task=viewDocumentRecord&docID=14496 - The full report from the IODE-XXIII meeting is available at:
http://www.iode.org/index.php?option=com_oe&task=viewDocumentRecord&docID=14791
