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Recommendation for a Quality Flag Scheme for the Exchange of Oceanographic and Marine Meteorological Data

19/04/2013

Volume 3 of the Ocean Data Standards Manual is now available:Recommendation for a Quality Flag Scheme for the Exchange of Oceanographic and Marine Meteorological Data.  IODE Quality Flag StandardThe purpose of the recommended IODE Quality Flag Standard is to define a common set of quality flags that can be used ...

NOAA releases 2013 World Ocean Database: The largest collection of scientific information about the oceans

20/12/2013

NOAA has released the 2013 World Ocean Database, the largest, most comprehensive collection of scientific information about the oceans, with records dating as far back as 1772. The 2013 database updates the 2009 version and contains nearly 13 million temperature profiles, compared with 9.1 in the 2009 database, and just fewer than six million salinity measurements, compared ...

Workshop on Linking and Contextualizing Publications and Datasets: Presentations online

25/11/2013

The presentations and slides of the "First Workshop on Linking and Contextualizing Publications and Datasets" (LCPD 2013), which took place last September, are now available online. The goal of this workshop was to provide researchers and practitioners in the fields of Digital Library, e-Science, and e-Research with a forum where they ...

FAO e-book collection for tablets and e-readers

05/08/2013

"FAO is committed to broad and unrestricted access to information, and all publications are made freely available in a growing variety of formats and media" (About FAO Publications). This is done through the FAO Document Repository, FAO’s official online repository, but now also a selection of bestselling titles is ...

Databib: Cataloging the World's Research Data Repositories

02/07/2013

Databib is an online tool for helping people identify and locate online repositories of research data. Research data has been growing lately and requires curation, collection, management, access and long-term preservation.The Databib facilities that repository managers register and describe their repositories on the platform so that users can locate ...