Manual de Referencia en Mejores Prácticas de Gestión de Datos Oceánicos. Número 1/2016.

Abstract

The “Colombian Oceanographic Data and Information Coordination Committee” (CTN Diocean, by its initials in Spanish) was created by Resolution No. 005/2015 of the Colombian Ocean Commission (CCO, by its initials in Spanish), to promote the articulation of efforts and institutional capacities in colombian oceanographic data and marine information management. One of the concerns of the CTN Diocean is the ocean data and information access and exchange at the national, regional and local level; for this reason, it created the Working Group on Best Practices in Data Management (GT MPGD, by its initials in Spanish) and included in its Work Plan 2015-2020 the identification and recommendation of best practices on management, conservation, publication and exchange of colombian oceanic data. In this framework, the GT MPGD presents the first edition of a special publication titled "Reference Manual on Best Practices of Oceanic Data Management", which contains a set of recommendations already accepted in national and international community, which is expected to be incorporated by the producers and managers of Colombian ocean data and information. This edition has three chapters: the first one shows an inventory with a brief description of information systems and oceanographic and marine-coastal monitoring networks in the national context; the second one, a list of standards, formats and vocabularies widely used by the national and international community; finally, an application case study of standards, formats and vocabularies of the Colombian Oceanographic Data Center (Cecoldo, by its initials in Spanish).