OceanBestPractices (OBP) is a secure, permanent document (and other objects) repository. It aims to provide a discovery point for research groups to search and find community accepted existing ocean best practices. This service also invites the ocean research, observation and data/information management communities to submit their own best practice documents to share globally with their colleagues. More...
Please note unless it has been accepted and annotated in OBPS as an Endorsed Practice by an Expert Panel, inclusion of a methodology in the OBPS, does not indicate that the methodology is recommended by OBPS.
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Ocean Data Standards Volume 6: SeaDataNet Cruise Summary Report (CSR) metadata model for Cruise Reporting (including SeaDataNet CSR metadata profile, V5.2.0).
(UNESCO for IODE, Paris, France, 2021)Scope: Proposal to acknowledge SeaDataNet Cruise Summary Report (CSR) metadata profile of ISO 19115 and ISO 19115-2 as a standard metadata model for the documentation of cruise reports. In particular, the proposal aims to ... -
Ocean Data Standards Volume 8: SeaDataNet Common Data Index (CDI) metadata model for Marine and Oceanographic Datasets (including SeaDataNet CDI metadata profile of ISO 19115, V12.2.0).
(UNESCO for IODE, IODE, Paris, France, 2021)Scope: Proposal to acknowledge SeaDataNet Common Data Index (CDI) metadata profile of ISO 19115 as a standard metadata model for the documentation of Marine and Oceanographic Datasets. In particular, the proposal aims to ... -
Ocean Data Standards Volume 7: SeaDataNet Common Data Index (CDI) metadata model for Marine and Oceanographic Datasets – XML encoding (including SeaDataNet metadata profile of ISO 19115 - XML encoding, V12.2.0).
(UNESCO for IODE, IODE, Paris, France, 2021)SeaDataNet Common Data Index (CDI) metadata model for Marine and Oceanographic Datasets – XML encoding Scope: Proposal to adopt SeaDataNet CDI XML encoding as the reference XML implementation of SeaDataNet CDI metadata ... -
Ocean Data Publication Cookbook.
(UNESCO, Paris, France, 2013)This "Cookbook" has been written for data managers and librarians who are interested in assigning a permanent identifier to a dataset for the purposes of publishing that dataset online and for the citation of that dataset ... -
Australian XBT Quality Control Cookbook Version 2.1.
(CSIRO, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 2023)Expendable Bathythermographs (XBTs) have been used for many years by oceanographers to measure the temperature of the upper ocean. These instruments are simple devices which are designed to be deployed from moving vessels, ...