IODE NATIONAL REPORTS 2019-2020 SURVEY: DATA MANAGEMENT (NODC AND ADU)
ONLINE SURVEY RESPONSE
The online survey was opened on 29 January 2021 and closed on 26 February 2021.
A total of 70 valid responses was received. Responses from “I do not work in a data center” were removed from the survey.
There were 4 responses under “another national data center”:
- Estonia (Tallinn University of Technology) (IODE national coordinator for data management)
- Finland (Finnish Meteorological Institute): hosted DNA until 2008 + IODE national coordinator for data management
- Portugal (Instituto Hidrografico): former NODC + IODE national coordinator for data management
- Trinidad and Tobago (Institute of Marine Affairs): IODE national coordinator for data management
Their responses have been included in the analysis.
The full list of data centers indicating which responded and which did can be found here.
Note: in the tables for each question, entries with country names in italics have been added after the closing of the online survey. Their responses are not included in the analysis graphs.
QUESTIONS
The survey included the following 47 questions. Click on the question to jump to the reporting.
- Q1: Please provide some information on yourself so we can contact you again. (confidential information, not included in this report)
- Q2: Your position (job title)
- Q3: Have you entered your information in OceanExpert? (http://www.oceanexpert.net)?
- Q4: In what type of data centre do you work?
- Q5: Does your country formally have a centralized (single centre) data management system or a distributed (multiple centres) data management system?
- Q6: Does your country and/or data centre have a documented data management strategy?
- Q7: Has your country applied (in 2019 and/or 2020) the IOC Oceanographic Data Exchange Policy adopted as Resolution IOC-XXII-6 in 2003? (see http://www.iode.org/policy)?
- Q8: Does your data centre have its own data policy?
- Q9: Does your organization have a documented Quality Management System (QMS)?
- Q10: Does your organization hold ISO 9001 certification?
- Q11: If you are an NODC: do you plan to implement the IODE QMF accreditation process during the next inter-sessional period (2021-2022)?
- Q12: What type and how many staff (FTE – Full Time Equivalent) were working at your data centre in 2019/2020 (averaged)
- Q13: How has this number changed year by year since 2017-2018 (previous inter-sessional period)
- Q14: What is the annual operational budget for your data centre (excluding staff cost) [converted into US Dollars]
- Q15: How has this number changed year by year since 2017-2018 (previous inter-sessional period)
- Q16: Global IODE activities in which your data centre participated in 2019 and/or 2020 (data management)
- Q17: List the most important data activities/projects in which your centre is involved.
- Q18: For measurements from vessels (research, ships of opportunity,etc) for which data types do you manage data
- Q19: For measurements from fixed stations/platforms for which data types do you manage data
- Q20: For measurements from moving platforms for which data types do you manage data
- Q21: Any other platforms, instruments, etc ?
- Q22: Did you handle (incoming) (delayed mode or real time)?
- Q23: Did your data centre have links with, and/or manage data from major science programmes (e.g., CLIVAR, IMBER, Argo, Future Earth, SOLAS, etc) in 2019 and/or 2020?
- Q24: Do you manage GOOS Essential Ocean Variables (EOV)? Please tick one or more EOVs of which data are managed by your data centre during 2019-2020. Note that more info (including specifications) can be found on the web page http://www.goosocean.org/eov
- Q25: Did you maintain a discovery metadatabase for the data received by your data centre in 2019 and/or 2020?
- Q26: If you answered yes to the previous question, then is the database openly available online?
- Q27: What kind of quality control procedures (if any) are used in your institution? (add bibliographic references, if possible)?
- Q28: What spectrum of services (e.g. data and products) were started/continued/ended by your centre in 2019 and/or 2020?
- Q29: List the most important products and services (up to 15) provided by your data centre in the period 2019-2020. These may be new (started in 2019/2020) or ongoing products/services. If they are online products/services then please also provide the URL.
- Q30: How were data made available (e.g. by request, on-line access, etc.) in 2019 and/or 2020?
- Q31: Indicate the average number of requests and services your centre provides in a year
- Q32: Who are your users?
- Q33: What is the geographic origin of your users?
- Q34: Do you participate in a national distributed data network?
- Q35: Do you provide data through the following international data networks?
- Q36: Did you provide data to World Data System (WDS) in 2019 and/or 2020?
- Q37: Did you send data to global specialized data centres (that are not ICSU WDSs) such as GDACs in 2019-2020?
- Q38: In how many IODE training courses did you participate in 2019 and/or 2020
- Q39: Did the IODE training assist you in your work after you returned home?
- Q40: In how many other training courses did you participate in 2019 and/or 2020 organized by national or other organizers?
- Q41: At how many working days would you estimate the contribution of your data centre to IODE through participation in IODE activities (e.g. participation in IODE meetings for which your data centre or country funded your trip) during the period 2019-2020 (2019 and 2020 added together)?
- Q42: Will your country be providing direct financial support to IODE in 2021-2022 through the IOC (confirmed)?
- Q43: Would your country/data centre be able to provide a visiting expert/secondment to the IOC Project Office for IODE in 2021-2022 (either working at the IODE project office in Belgium, or working from his/her usual place of work) for a period of 3-12 months?
- Q44-45: Is the host institution of your data centre involved in activities related to the Sustainable Development Goals? (you will find more information on http://en.unesco.org/sdgs/ioc)
- Q46-47: Is the host institution of your data centre planning activities for the UN decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development?