UNESCO/IOC Project Office for IODE
Wandelaarkaai 7 - Pakhuis 61
B-8400 Oostende
Belgium
| 1. | ORGANIZATION OF THE SESSION |
| 1.1. | Opening of the Meeting |
| 1.2. | Adoption of the Agenda |
| 1.3. | Working arrangements |
| 1.4. | Election for the vacant co-Chairperson's position |
| 2. | STATUS OF THE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN |
| 3. | STATUS OF WIGOS |
| 3.1. | WIGOS Concept of Operations (CONOPS) |
| 3.2. | WIGOS Test of Concept Development and Implementation Plan (WDIP) |
| 3.3. | Demonstration Projects |
| 4. | IODE OCEAN DATA PORTAL AND ITS INTEROPERABILITY WITH THE WIS |
| 4.1. | Progress report on the IODE ODP workplan, including light data provider and version 2 development |
| 4.2. | Interoperability between IODE ODP and SeaDataNET - report progress on discussions with SeaDataNET |
| 4.3. | Interoperability of ocean data systems with the IODE ODP and/or the WIS - report on progress |
| 4.4. | Report on the outcomes of the IODE ODP training courses (Russian Federation and Republic of Korea) |
| 4.5. | Review of potential data sets, and potential for establishing more data providers nodes interoperable with the IODE ODP and/or WIS |
| 5. | INSTRUMENT BEST PRACTICES |
| 5.1. | Terms of Reference of Regional Marine Instrument Centres (RMIC) |
| 5.2. | Relationship with the manufacturers |
| 5.3. | Documenting instrument best practices |
| 5.4. | Scope for instrument inter-comparisons |
| 5.5. | Recommendations to JCOMM-III |
| 6. | QUALITY MANAGEMENT |
| 6.1. | Status of the JCOMM Catalogue of Best Practices and Standards |
| 6.2. | Report on the JCOMM/IODE Standards Pilot Project (ODS) |
| 6.3. | Publishing of Best Practices and Standards by WMO and IOC |
| 7. | CAPACITY BUILDING |
| 7.1. | IODE ODP Capacity Building activities |
| 7.2. | Possibilities for capacity building related to the WIGOS Pilot Project for JCOMM |
| 7.3. | Cooperation with the IODE OceanTeacher Project |
| 8. | REPORTING TO THE WMO EC WG WIGOS-WIS AND ITS SUB-GROUP, JCOMM, AND TO THE IODE COMMITTEE |
| 8.1. | Strength and weaknesses in the management of the ocean observing systems |
| 8.2. | Lessons learned |
| 8.3. | Roles, responsibilities and mandates of stakeholders |
| 8.4. | Reporting to the WMO Executive Council Working Group on WIGOS and WIS through its Sub-Group on WIGOS |
| 8.5. | Reporting to JCOMM |
| 8.6. | Reporting to the IOC Committee on IODE |
| 8.7. | GOOS and WIGOS: relationships, intersection and boundaries |
| 8.8. | Beyond the Pilot Project: plans for follow-up |
| 9. | COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIES ON THE IODE ODP AND WIGOS PILOT PROJECT FOR JCOMM |
| 9.1. | Web site(s) |
| 9.2. | Brochures and other promotional materials |
| 10. | CLOSURE OF THE SESSION |
| 10.1. | Updating of the Implementation Plan |
| 10.2. | Review of Action Items arising from the meeting |
| 10.3. | Closure |