Info Mgmt with Observations

Wednesday, 1:30-2:30pm

1. QA/QC -- Ways to improve and assure quality of data.
• How should this task be handled at each institution and with the help of the larger DM group at USC
• National (DMAC) standards for QA/QC
• National standards and plans for real-time data (e.g., QARTOD)
2. Data delivery and display products for in situ observations
• Identify ways to provide redundancy (reliability and continuity) in data delivery. Recommendations for improvements. Implementation?
• Formats for data delivery
• Data display options for various parameters -- how to improve on these. For instance, NOAA/NOS&NWS have greatly improved their web based products. Should we use similar formats or can we improve on these further to make our products more usable to the general public.
• defining priorities
3. Requirements for archival and accessing archives and how these can be achieved.
   • An institutional or broader SEACOOS activity? All data or a SEACOOS subset? At what point does real time data get replaced with post-recovery, edited data? How do we apprise users of modifications to these data sets?
   • What should our policy be for providing real time data for dissemination by outside entities, (e.g., rebroadcasts by various private industry providers)
4. IM requirements for Satellite Remote Sensing and HF Radar efforts
redundancy for processing/communications; QA/QC; documentation; archiving (reprocessing issue); product delivery
5. Metadata -- how to ensure that individual institutions document metadata.
• update on Metadata tools -- status, plans, training opportunities
• DMAC standards (i.e., what will be required for RA certification)
• SEACOOS IM resources
6. SEACOOS Observations/Sensor "Inventory"
Plans for an interactive system? (e.g., access for updates by providers; dynamic "flagging"; regularly updated system status "time lines", etc.)
• incorporation of information from federal affiliates and other sub-regional programs?