HR: 1340h
AN: IN33B-1178    [Abstracts]
TI: The Gulf of Maine Ocean Data Partnership: Building a Region-wide Information System from the Bottom Up
AU: * Schloss, A L
EM: annette.schloss@unh.edu
AF: Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, University of New Hampshire 446 Morse Hall 39 College Rd., Durham, NH 03824 United States
AU: Mountain, D
EM: dmountai@whsun1.wh.whoi.edu
AF: Northeast Fisheries Science Center, NOAA/NMFS, 166 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543 United States
AU: Shyka, T
EM: tom@gomoos.org
AF: Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System, 350 Commercial St. Suite 308, Portland, ME 04101 United States
AU: Most, S
EM: sylvia@gomoos.org
AF: Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System, 350 Commercial St. Suite 308, Portland, ME 04101 United States
AU: Richert, E
EM: erichert@usm.maine.edu
AF: Census of Marine Life, University of Southern Maine Muskee School of Public Service 96 Falmouth St., Portland, ME 04101 United States
AB: The Gulf of Maine Ocean Data Partnership promotes and coordinates the sharing, linking, electronic dissemination, and use of data on the Gulf of Maine. The Partnership was formed through a Memorandum of Agreement in 2004 as a region-wide effort to assist individual institutions in publishing valuable data and information on the physical, biological, chemical and geologic conditions in the Gulf of Maine. The Partnership has grown to include twenty-one member organizations from government agencies, intergovernmental organizations, academic, research, and other nongovernmental and nonprofit entities. The Partnership provides guidance and technical assistance to members, a forum for exchanging ideas and experiences, and in the future, a web-based data portal to be hosted by the Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System (GoMOOS). Four project areas have been designated as priorities: Data Assurance, Data Discovery, Data Accessibility, and Data Interoperability. Recommendations and protocols are in development for each project area. These are based on either accepted protocols, or best practices if no protocols exist. Accomplishments to date include a comprehensive inventory of the data management and technology capabilities of participants and a completion of a pilot project on metadata issues. A hands-on Metadata Training Workshop was held in the fall to familiarize participants with preparing compatible metadata for publishing their data collections on the web. The Partnership seeks to advance a truly integrated ocean observing system in the Gulf of Maine Designed and implemented as a grass-roots organization, it will be an important building block of the nascent Northeast Regional Association that will become a component of the US Coastal Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) and a member of the National Federation of Regional Associations.
UR: http://www.gomodp.org
DE: 0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics (4815)
DE: 0460 Marine systems (4800)
DE: 0815 Informal education
DE: 4262 Ocean observing systems
DE: 4899 General or miscellaneous
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005