IOC Workshop Report No. 244

Oostende, 14 November 2011



The fourth SCOR/IODE/MBLWHOI Library Workshop on Data Publication meeting was convened by the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and the Marine Biological Laboratory/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library (MBLWHOI Library) on 3-4 November 2011 to evaluate progress of the two pilot projects of the activity and to discuss related topics, such as implementation of data repositories in different data centres, cooperation with related national and international efforts, hear about how data publication is being handled in other disciplines, interactions with publishers of scientific journals, economic implications of data publication.