Global Ocean Tracking Network

Dear Peter and Keith

It should not be a problem to make this an output from this week's, March 3-5 OTNdmc meeting.

Yours truly, Bob Branton
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On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Peter Pissierssens <p.pissierssens@unesco.org> wrote:

    Hello Keith
    Bob already contacted me with regard to OTN and I provided some information on the relevant NODCs. Bob also contacted me with regard to the Argentinian NODC for an OTN meeting. We could indeed go a bit further: IODE will meet in Beijing between 4-8 May. If Bob would like to send me a short document on OTN and maybe propose how IODE could assist OTN then we will certainly put this on the agenda.
    peter

    2009/2/28 Keith Alverson <k.alverson@unesco.org>

        Dear Bob,

         The page looks fine to me.

         I suggest, at some point in the future, that the OTN metadata/data issue be brought to the attention of the IODE - which comprises some 60 national oceanographic data centers, and is the partner GOOS works with to ensure efficient data exchange and long term stewardship for our international/global projects such as OTN. IODE is also in discussion with COML and others about possible future hosting of OBIS, so biological data may become more central to its mandate in the future. The contact for IODE here at IOC is Peter Pissierssens and I have put him in cc on this email.

        Best,
        Keith

        Keith Alverson
        Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
        1 rue Miollis
        75732 Paris, Cedex 15
        France
        Email: k.alverson@unesco.org
        Tel +33 (0)1 45 68 40 42
        Fax: +33 (0)1 45 68 58 13



        On Feb 17, 2009, at 9:18 PM, bob branton wrote:

> Dear Ron and Keith,
>
> You are the co-owners of the Global Ocean Tracking Network Metadata and Data Series and so we need you to review and approve the metadata being used to describe it. Clicking the following link given below will take you there. The easiest thing for you to do is simply read the page and send comments by return email. Please let us know what you think. Susan and or I will make the approriate changes. Did we get the citation right, are the contacts correct, wording of the abstract, etc ...? If all is good, please let us know that too. In addition, given that this is an 'in work' project, could give us a brief high level status report. We could write this for you, but I think it would be better if you set the tone. I plan to seek out each of the regional contacts do the same for their region.
>
> http://www.marinebiodiversity.ca/[…]/global
>
>
> --
> Yours truly
>
> Bob Branton
>
> Director of Data Management, Ocean Tracking Network,
> Dalhousie University, 1355 Oxford Street,
> Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 4J1
>
> Contact: work 902 494-7560; fax 902 494-1123; cell 902 225-3620; home 902 463-4857
> Website: http://www.oceantrackingnetwork.org/
>




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    Peter Pissierssens
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    Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC)
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    BELGIUM
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Yours truly

Bob Branton

Director of Data Management, Ocean Tracking Network,
Dalhousie University, 1355 Oxford Street,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 4J1

Contact: work 902 494-7560; fax 902 494-1123; cell 902 225-3620; home 902 463-4857
Website: http://www.oceantrackingnetwork.org/