INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN OCEANOGRAPHY (ITO-98)

GOA, INDIA 12-16 OCTOBER 1998

THE INTERNATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA AND INFORMATION EXCHANGE (IODE) SYSTEM: ADAPTING TO A NEW AGE

Peter Pissierssens
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
1 rue Miollis
75732 Paris cedex 15
FRANCE

Established by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO in 1961, to enhance marine research, exploration, and development by facilitating the exchange of oceanographic data and information between participating Member States', the IODE system has developed into a global network of 71 Designated National Agencies, National Oceanographic Data Centres, Responsible National Oceanographic Data Centres and World Data Centres in 56 countries. These Data centres acquire, process, quality control, inventory, arcgive, disseminate data. They provide data/information in a usable form for a wide variety of users, at the national regional and global level. A detailed overview will be given of the responsibilities of the different IODE components and their interactions. How is the IODE system responding to the rapid advancements in telecommunication technology, in particular the Internet? Should there still be an IODE system in the next millennium?

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