DRAFT
WORK
PLAN FOR THE GODAR TYPE PROJECT
IN
THE WESTPAC REGION
Year
2001 - 2005
The
Global Ocean Data Archaeology and Rescue (GODAR) program has been established by
the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) in 1993 in order to save
oceanographic data from a risk of losing by degradation of recording media or
disaster etc., and to increase the volume of historical data available to
climate change and other researches.
The workshops related the program were held in each region to promote
the project.
The
large volume of data showed as followings, are collected at US-NODC/WDC-A
through the program under the cooperation of the IOC member states,
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2.0 million temperature profiles;
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120,000 Chlorophyll profiles;
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600,000 plankton taxa.
These
data have been made available internationally without restriction via CD-ROM
and on-line as World Ocean Database 1998 by US-NODC/WDC-A.
However,
there are many data that were reported at the GODAR II, in Tianjin, China,
1994, still in manuscript form in this region.
The
importance of promoting the GODAR program in the region was recognized again at
the International Conference for the International Data & Information Exchange
in the WESTPAC region 1999 (ICIWP'99) held in Langkawi, Malaysia, Nov. 1999.
And ICIWP'99 recommended the establishment of a working group chaired by the
representative from Malaysia in order to start a GODAR type project in the
WESTPAC region. This paper
describes a work plan to support the development of the GODAR type project
according to the recommendation of ICIWP'99.
The
project aims to locate, rescue and make available marine
data from the WESTPAC region that is in danger of being lost. Data that is stored on paper or on old
media and is not presently available to the WESTPAC scientists will be sort for
this project. Work will be
undertaken to digitise the data or re-write the data onto modern media in an
effort to safeguard it for future use.
The data will also be quality controlled and then made available.
The project
target area is the WESTPAC region; with a specific focus on the Southeast Asian
region.
It is
anticipated that the project will run over a period of five years.
5. DATA
TYPES
The
project will focus on the
data types that are exchanged routinely within the IODE system, especially
focussing on the following data,
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Hydrographic casts including all chemical and biological
observations,
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Salinity/Conductivity Temperature-Depth casts,
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Expendable Bathythermograph casts,
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Mechanical Bathythermograph casts
The
project will establish a working group to develop a work plan and to evaluate
the progress of the project. The
working group will consist of the IODE coordinators from in the region, and
from agencies participating in the project.
A
Project Office will be located at a National
Oceanographic Data Centre from within the region. The Project Office will develop a Web Site to promote the project, providing
information on the projects activities and results.
The Project Office will publish a brochure describing the GODAR activities in the region as a mechanism to promote the project within ocean research institutes of the region. The brochure will also include information on the full range of IODE activities to help promoting the IODE program in this region.
9.
INFORMATION RELATED TO MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTES
The
Project Office will collect information on the various marine research
institutes in the region. Much of
this information will be collected using the IODE¡Çs metadata system – MEDI and
will be made available on the project¡Çs web site.
10.
INFORMATION ON DATA LOCATED
The
project office will collect information on data that is in need of ¡Ærescue¡Ç
also using the MEDI software. This
will assist in the development of priorities for the data rescue process. Details of these data sets will also be
made available on the project¡Çs web site.
11. CHECK
OF DUPLICATION
It
is important that duplication of effort should be
avoided and every effort will be made to ensure that the data
identified for rescue has not already been digitised. This will require close cooperation with other IODE centres
and the World Data Centres.
12.
COLLECTION OF DATA
The
project office will identify data from the previously mentioned location
processes and will attempt to obtain this data from the researchers or
institutes through the IODE coordinator or directly. Information on the data acquired for digitisation will be
presented on the web site.
13. DIGITISING OF DATA
It
is anticipated that assistance with the digitisation of the paper-based data
will come from NODC¡Çs and DNA¡Çs within the region. It is anticipated that:
1)
If NODCs or DNAs are able to digitise other country's data, they inform the project
office. So that, the project office will make arrangement for data digitising
plan.
2)
NODCs and DNAs may send the digitised data to the project office. The project office will inform users
via the web site that new data is available.
14. DATA POLICY
The
data gathered by the project will be made available to users according to the
IODE data policy, "Full and Open Sharing".
It
is anticipated that the developed countries in the region will provide technical
assistance to the developing countries for this project. The assistance will be based on existing cooperative schemes and training courses and
provide a transfer of technology. One area of support that will be
investigated is the provision of equipment to countries to assist with the
digitisation of rescues data.
Other equipment such as CD-ROM drives to provide access to rescued data
sets are also an option.
16.
SEMINAR
At the end of
the project, a seminar will be held in order to:
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Evaluate the success of the project and establish a
follow-up plan.
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Share new knowledge and products from the project among the
IODE data centres, coordinators and marine researcher community.
After
the seminar, the coordinators will be expected to disseminate the results of
the project in own countries.
17.
ESTIMATED COST AND TIME FRAME
The estimated
cost and time frame of the project are indicated as following,
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2000 |
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
2004 |
2005 |
COST |
Possible Sources |
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Establishment
of WG |
ü |
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Establishment
of Project Office |
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ü |
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Donor |
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Establishment
of Web page |
|
ü |
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Project
Office |
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Brochure |
|
ü |
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US$2k |
IOC
or PO |
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Information
Collecting |
|
ü |
ü |
ü |
ü |
ü |
|
Donor
& PO |
|
Data
collecting |
|
ü |
ü |
ü |
ü |
ü |
|
Donor
& PO |
|
Digitising
& QC |
|
|
ü |
ü |
ü |
ü |
|
Donor
& PO |
|
Training |
|
ü |
ü |
ü |
ü |
ü |
|
IOC
& Donor |
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Product |
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|
|
|
|
ü |
|
Donor
& PO |
|
Seminar |
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|
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|
ü |
UD$20k |
IOC
& Donor |