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Does Operational Oceanography really Address the Needs of Fisheries and Applied Environmental Scientists?. M.D.Skogen, B.Berx, M.Dickey-Collas + the WGOOFE team. OPNet final seminar, Oslo, May 2011. ICES WGOOFE: Questionary – what kind of products do the users really want to have??
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Does Operational Oceanography really Address the Needs of Fisheries and Applied Environmental Scientists? M.D.Skogen, B.Berx, M.Dickey-Collas + the WGOOFE team OPNet final seminar, Oslo, May 2011
ICES WGOOFE: • Questionary – what kind of products do the users really want to have?? • Traffic lights – which web sites give easy hand-on access to such products??
ICES WGOOFE: • Working Group on Operational Oceanographic products for Fisheries and Environment (www.wgoofe.org) • A one-stop shop to access a variety of oceanographic information from the modelling and observational community • To provide a direct link to products from individual web site providers • Improve accessibility to data (i.e. time series, maps, etc.) • Integrate users with providers • First meeting Hamburg november 2008. • Next meeting Exeter november 2011.
Questionary to ICES users of oceanographic data (fisheries and environmental) scientists: • 100 scientists responded • Main findings:
The WGOOFE web-portal traffic-lights: Criteria for WGOOFE housed products – (traffic light) Download of data Registration to get data View Description (method, reference, relevance – data format, update frequency, Contact person - all of these within a few mouse clicks…… Green: 1 + 3, 4, 5 Yellow: 1 or 2 + at least two out of (3, 4, 5) Red: others Nextstep: standards for meta data – based on ISO 19115 => replace 4) – www.wgoofe.org
Examples of colored webpages (parameter = SST): • Green: CORIOLIS, SEPRISE, MetOffice, ICES (NorthSea climatology), NORWECOM, NeraCOOS, DFO-AZMP, MVCO, … • Yellow: MyOcean, Mercator-Ocean, BSH, Previmer, INGV, IMR (Norw.Sea climatology), ECOSMO, Bobyclim, ENEA, … • Red: NCOF, met.no, BOSS4GMES, WAQSS, GoMOOS, … • Next step: emails to providers: • Congratulations your web-pages is green labeled !!! • You are currently red/yellow – how to become green…
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