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ICES Marine Data Management Group
| Introduction |
The Oceanography and Marine Data Management group pages of ICES give a range of guidelines, particularly Quality Control Manuals and procedures for a number of parameters and instruments.
You can get general access to the oceanography section through: www.ices.dk/ocean/
| Formats |
More specific you can directly view the links to 'Formats'. The pages provide a detailed description of the formats used by ICES for the exchange of oceanographic (water bottle or CTD) station data. Receivers of data from ICES will receive it in only the first described format, the ICES Oceanographic 'punch card' format. But software is supplied upon request to help the user read data sets prepared in this format, including an export facility to data bases and spreadsheets.
| Guidelines |
The International Council for Exploration of the Sea (ICES) organises many working, study and steering groups to examine general and specific issues related to the ocean environment. One such group, the Working Group on Marine Data Management (WGMDM), takes an active role in promoting proper data management practices for the marine community.
Over the past several years, the WGMDM have worked toward a set of guidelines designed to describe the elements of data and metadata important to the ocean research community. These guidelines are targeted toward physical-chemical-biological data types traditionally collected on oceanographic cruises. Please view the ICES webpages for further information.
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