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Background
Nearly all major programs, at some time, have issued data management manuals for the specific methods and procedures they adopt for their own use. These manuals are hardly comprehensive for all purposes, hence the need for OceanTeacher itself. But they contain valuable precedent information and specific protocols that can be useful to other activities. They also can be vital pieces of information if questions arise concerning the datasets published by the activity. In the special case of the ICES Guidelines (below) a whole suite of manuals was developed for the use of national institutions participating in international cooperative work, covering many named projects.
In addition to this, major international communications and coordination systems, such as Service Argos, have issued manuals on the protocols to be followed by system participants, as the contribute data to or obtain products from the systems. Both of these types of manuals are cataloged here.
Available Manuals
- The Acquisition, calibration, and analysis of CTD data: a report of SCOR Working Group 51. 1988. UNESCO technical papers in marine science No. 54
- Argo Data Management Handbook (1.2)
- Black Sea Data Management Guide (IOC M&G 43)
- Guide to Best Practices for Ocean Acidification Research and Data Reporting
- Guide to Data Collection and Location Services using Service Argos (DBCP TD 3)
- Guide to operational procedures for the collection and exchange of oceanographic data: BATHY+TESAC 2.0 (IOC M&G 3)
- Guide to IGOSS data archives and exchange - 2.0 (IOC M&G 1)
- Guide to Operational Procedures for the Collection and Exchange of JCOMM Oceanographic Data 3.0 (IOD M&G 3)
- GOSUD User’s Manual (1.0)
- ICES WBMDM Guidelines for Profiling Float Data
- ICES Guidelines for Moored Current Meter Data
- ICES WGMDM Guidelines for CTD Data
- ICES WGMDM Guidelines for Discrete Water Sample Data
- ICES WGMDM Guidelines for Moored ADCP Data
- ICES WGMDM Guidelines for SeaSoar - Batfish - Data
- ICES WGMDM Guidelines for Shipboard ADCP Data
- ICES WGMDM Guidelines for Surface Drifting Buoy Data
- ICES WGMDM Guidelines for Surface Underway Data
- ICES WGMDM Guidelines for Water Level Data
- ICES WGMDM Guidelines for XBT Data
- ICES WGMDM Guidelines for Net Tow (Plankton) Data
- ICES WGMDM Guidelines for Profiling Float and Drifting Buoy Data
- ICES WGMDM Guidelines for Miltibeam Echosounder Data
- IMBER Data Management Cookbook - Excellent new compilation of methods and standards for setting up a comprehensive data management capability and system within a typical marine project. Includes sections on reporting and metadata requirements and data curating.
- IOC Strategic Plan for Oceanographic Data and Information Management (2008-2011) (IOC M&G 49)
- Manual on international oceanographic data exchange (IOC M&G 9)
- POGO Recommended Good Principles for Data Management
- User guide for the exchange of measured wave data (IOC M&G 18)
- Users guide for thermosalinograph installation and maintenance aboard a ship
- WHP 90-1: Requirements for WOCE Hydrographic Program Data Reporting
- XBT Quality Test References Intercomparisons and Fall Rate documents - XBT Bibliography and XBT/CTD comparison data information
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Short title: Data Manuals
Description: none
Expertise level: beginner
Author: Murray.Brown
Approval status: approved
Approved by: Murray.Brown
Last change: 2010-10-5
Subsection of: Marine Data Quality Assurance
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