Sessions and Programme

Programme

Sessions

1. Data Services in ocean science

chairs: Angelo Lykiardopoulos (HCMR, Greece) and Justin Buck (NERC-BODC, UK)

• Standards and quality-assurance issues
• Services and Visualisation tools
• User oriented services

2. Marine information and data management

chairs: Dick Schaap (MARIS, Netherlands) and Eoin O'Grady (MI, Ireland)

• Exchange, processing and interactive work with marine data sets from highly heterogeneous sources
• Federation and integration
• Network services and technologies

3.Marine environmental data bases: infrastructures and data access systems

chairs: Roger Proctor (IMOS, Australia) and Paolo Diviacco (OGS, Italy)

• Coastal and deep-sea operational oceanography metadata/data systems
• Physical and bio-chemical databases for climate studies
• Geophysical and geological metadata/data systems

4. Services for Users and Education

chair: Vittorio Barale (EU-JRC, Italy)

• Historical evolution in data collection and management
• Tools for dissemination
• Test bed development for educational purposes