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INTERGOVERNMENTAL OCEANOGRAPHIC COMMISSION
(of UNESCO)
Nineteenth Session of the IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data
and Information Exchange (IODE-XIX)
Trieste, Italy, 12-16 March 2007
Format guidelines for the submission of national reports for the purpose
of Sessions of the IODE Committee:
Inter-Sessional Report of the IODE National
Coordinator of France
This report covers the period May 2005 – December 2006 (inter-sessional period between
IODE-XVIII and IODE-XIX). The report has two parts: one for the IODE national
coordinator for oceanographic data management and one for the IODE national coordinator
for marine information management.
PART I: REPORT OF THE IODE NATIONAL COORDINATOR
FOR OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA MANAGEMENT
1- Type of data centre: NODC
2- Details of the IODE National Coordinator for Oceanographic Data
Management:
Name: Mr. Loïc Petit de la Villéon
Address: SISMER
Centre IFREMER de Brest
BP 70
29280 Plouzané (France)
Tel: +33 (0)2 98 22 49 13 or 49 16
Fax: +33 (0)2 98 22 46 44
E-mail: [email protected]
URL: http://www.ifremer.fr/sismer
Have you entered your details in OceanExpert (http://www.oceanexpert.net) : No
3- Details of the Data Centre:
Official name: SISMER. Systèmes d’Informations Scientifiques pour la Mer
Host Organization: IFREMER
Name of the Head of the Host Organization: Jean-Yves Perrot
Address: SISMER
Centre IFREMER de Brest
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BP 70
29280 Plouzané (France)
Tel: +33 (0)2 98 22 49 16
Fax: +33 (0)2 98 22 46 44:
E-mail: [email protected]
URL: http://www.ifremer.fr/sismer
Where there any major changes in your data centre or its host institution during the past
inter-sessional period?
Catherine Maillard retired from the head of the SISMER. She is focusing her activity on
the SeaDataNet project (http://www.seadatanet.org/).
Loïc Petit de la Villéon has been nominated as head of the SISMER. He also has been
nominated as IODE National Coordinator for International Oceanographic Data and
Information Management.
4- IODE Data Center Designation Date : 1968 as IODE NODC
5- Resources available to your data centre
How many staff are working at your data centre: 15
How has this number changed year by year since the year 2000: 10 (2000) to 15 (present).
Some non permanent positions may be opened if necessary.
What is the annual operational budget for your data centre (excluding staff cost):
How has this changed year by year since the year 2000:
6- Online services provided by the data centre:
All the online services are reachable through the Sismer web portal designed as Nautilus
http://www.ifremer.fr/sismer
Welcome page of the Sismer portal
Most of the services detailed below will be aggregated and reachable through the SeaDataNet
portal http://www.seadatanet.org
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Metadata on line services
Title: French Oceanographic Cruises. Cruises summary reports (former ROSCOP)
Short description of the service: Access to more than 6700 cruise summary reports related
to cruises which have been carried on French research vessels or in the frame of international
cooperation. Information is worldwide distributed through the Seadatanet portal by the way of
BSH –Germany-.
Related project (if appropriate):
URL: http://www.ifremer.fr/sismer/UK/catal/campagne/campagne_UK.htm and
http://www.ifremer.fr/sismer/FR/catal/campagne/campagne_FR.htm
Focus audience(s) of the service:
Has the site been added to OceanPortal (http://www.oceanportal.org): No
Number of visits per month (average of the past year):
Title: EDIOS. French contribution to the EDIOS project coordinated by BODC –UK-.
Short description of the service: Information on regular and long-term sea observations
collected in the coastal and deep sea water. French contribution to the EuroGoos catalogue.
This project is being deeply reshaped in the framework of SeaDataNet
Related project (if appropriate):
URL: http://www.ifremer.fr/sismer/program/edios/
Focus audience(s) of the service:
Has the site been added to OceanPortal (http://www.oceanportal.org): No
Number of visits per month (average of the past year):
Title: Marine Data Sets (EDMED). European Directory of marine Environmental Data.
French contribution to the project coordinated by BODC –UK-.
Short description of the service: This bilingual directory describes more than 200 French
marine data sets or international databases of general interest, collected by about
100 laboratories of the French scientific community. The inventory covers physical
oceanography, chemical oceanography, biological oceanography, marine meteorology,
hydrography, marine ecology, underwater acoustics, marine geology and geophysics.
Domains.
Related project (if appropriate):
URL: http://www.ifremer.fr/sismer/program/seasearch/bases.htm
Focus audience(s) of the service:
Has the site been added to OceanPortal (http://www.oceanportal.org): No
Number of visits per month (average of the past year):
Data related on line services
Title: French In situ data
Short description of the service: Access to data that have been collected in the frame of
French scientific cruises or related programs.
Related project (if appropriate):
URL:http://www.ifremer.fr/sismerData/jsp/donneesInSitu.jsp
Focus audience(s) of the service:
Has the site been added to OceanPortal (http://www.oceanportal.org): No
Number of visits per month (average of the past year):
Title: Coriolis Data centre
Short description of the service: Access to in-situ data (1st priority focuses on near real time
data) that have been gathered for the need of Operational Oceanography. This includes near
real time data (assimilation purposes) and delayed mode data (validation and analysis
purposes). A routine distribution service of the data is available on this site. The complete
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Argo data set is available through Coriolis.
Related project (if appropriate):
URL: http://www.coriolis.eu.org.cdc
Focus audience(s) of the service:
Has the site been added to OceanPortal (http://www.oceanportal.org): Yes
Number of visits per month (average of the past year):
On line data selection through the Coriolis
data server : http://www.coriolis.eu.org
Title: Argo data.
Short description of the service: Access to the whole Argo dataset is available through the
Coriolis data server
Related project (if appropriate):
URL: http://www.coriolis.eu.org/cdc/argo.htm
Focus audience(s) of the service:
Has the site been added to OceanPortal (http://www.oceanportal.org): No
Number of visits per month (average of the past year):
Title: GOSUD
Short description of the service: Access to the surface data that have been routinely
collected when the ships were en route. For the moment, main parameters collected are sea
surface salinity and sea surface temperature
Related project (if appropriate):
URL: http://www.gosud.org
Focus audience(s) of the service:
Has the site been added to OceanPortal (http://www.oceanportal.org): No
Number of visits per month (average of the past year):
Access to the data of the Gosud project: http://www.gosud.eu.org
Title: SEXTANT
Short description of the service: Sextant is a GIS aiming to facilitate the access an use of
geographical data and products such as cadastral and legal data, bathymetry etc. from various
sources, in particular from the the Hydrographic Service and the National Geographical
Institute, for the implementation of specific programmes.
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Related project (if appropriate):
URL: http://www.ifremer.fr/sismer/UK/banquesnat/donnees_cartographiques_UK.htm
Focus audience(s) of the service:
Has the site been added to OceanPortal (http://www.oceanportal.org): No
Number of visits per month (average of the past year):
7- IODE data flow
How many data sets have been received by your data centre and added to your collection
during the period May 2005 – December 2006:
- physical oceanography data:
………….
- chemical oceanography data:
………….
- biological oceanography data:
………….
- geological/geophysical data:
………….
- remotely sensed data:
………….
- marine meteorology & atmospheric science:
………….
- other:
………….
o Specify: ……………………………………………………………………….
Does your data centre maintain a metadata catalog: Yes
IFREMER/SISMER’s missions explicitely cover the maintenance and dissemination
of general inventories on national data. Therefore it compiles and disseminate on line,
the French contribution to following international information systems:
o Marine data sets in the research laboratories: EDMED
http://www.ifremer.fr/sismer/catal/base/basea.htm
o Cruise and Moorings Summary Reports (ROSCOP/CSR)
http://www.ifremer.fr/sismer/catal/campagne/campagna.htm
o Existing continuous observing systems (EDIOS)
http://www.ifremer.fr/sismer/program/edios/htql/edios_france.htql
o Another group of IFREMER is also participating in OBIS.
SISMER is working with actively with pan-european data centers in the frame of the
SeaDataNet EU project and the international organizations IOC, ICES and JRC. The
SeaDataNet project (2006-2011) is building a standardized distributed system for managing
the large and diverse data sets collected by the oceanographic fleets and the new automatic
observation systems. This includes quality insurance issues on data, meta-data management
and systems inter-operability. http://www.seadatanet.org
8- Oceanographic data policy
How is your country applying the 'IOC Oceanographic Data Exchange Policy’ adopted as
Resolution IOC-XXII-6 in 2003?
IFREMER/SISMER follows the ‘'IOC Oceanographic Data Exchange Policy’. National data
are widely distributed (after some delay in case of scientific publications needs). French data
sent as part of COI programmes are public (GOSUD). French contribution to world wide
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projects (Argo) is also freely distributed. The data distribution done in the frame of
operational oceanographic projects has increased the availability of the data.
9- Role of the NODC at the national level
The marine data management structure is centralized and is supported by IFREMER. A
copy of all the data collected during French research cruises is archived at
IFREMER/SISMER . The trend is to transfer them automatically when possible. This
automated data transfer to the shore has been greatly facilitated by the needs (in near realtime) of the Operational oceanography projects. When all the processing is not possible
on board (ie CTD calibration and biogeochemical titration), the transfer is done on a
voluntary basis. That means it could be very difficult to retrieve the entire datasets if the
elapsed time between data collection and data transfer to the data center is too long. The
cruise summary reports are used to request and compile the data.
During the 5 past years, IFREMER /SISMER has maintained two dedicated structures for
managing the physical and biogeochemical oceanographic data. One for the archiving
system and one for the Operational Oceanography purposes. This position has been
considered as untenable on the long term. Some data may have been transmitted to the
data center in near real time to the operational oceanography structure and later on the
same data may have been transmitted to the final archiving system. The problem of
duplicates becomes very difficult to solve. In 2006, decision of merging the two data
structures has been decided and in 2007 the process has been started. This includes
database merging and also the development of quality controls tools which fulfills the
different needs. In parallel it has been also decided to join the efforts of the French
Hydrographic Service of the Navy and of IFREMER to have a common approach for
managing physical oceanography data. The process is also on going and is planned to be
operational by the end of 2007.
SISMER continue to maintain meta data catalogs. SISMER manages also the
geophysical and geological data that have been collected on board the French research
vessels. This includes bathymetry, magnetism data, gravity, seismic and side-scan data.
The next objective is to include data from manned or unmanned vehicles operated in
France.
All this activities are directly connected to international projects, such as SeaDataNet,
Argo, Gosud and take in account the requirements defined at international levels such as
COI/IODE and ICES.
For the coastal monitoring system, there is a separate IFREMER data management system
(QUADRIGE database for coastal stations and MAREL for coastal buoys) developed in
collaboration with SISMER for the standardization of the procedures (Quality control
and exchange formats). This cooperation is fast growing in the recent national coastal
operational oceanography project, where the coordination of the data management is done
under SISMER responsibility.
10- Cooperation in national and international programmes/projects
The list below is not exhaustive . It should be representative of the SISMER/IFREMER
activity in termes of Marine data Management.
Title of project/programme: SeadataNet
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Short description of the project/programme: Provide access to marine data is for marine
research and for various studies, from the climate change prediction to off shore
engineering. This access will be provided by a network of Marine Data centres
Main coordinators of the programme : Dr Catherine Maillard. Ifremer/Sismer and Dick
Schaap . Maris (The Nederlands).
Role of your data centre in the project/programme:
URL of the project: http://www.seadatanet.org
URL of the project at your data centre web site: http://www.seadatanet.org
Starting date of the project/programme: March 2006
Ending date of the project/programme: March 2011
Total budget of the project/programme:
Funding received by your data centre from the project/programme:
Does the project cover staff cost in your data centre: O yes O no
Title of project programme: ARGO
Short description of the project/programme: Argo is a global array of 3,000 free-drifting
profiling floats that measures the temperature and salinity of the upper 2000 m of the
ocean. This allows, for the first time, continuous monitoring of the temperature, salinity, and
velocity of the upper ocean, with all data being relayed and made publicly available within
hours after collection.
Main coordinator of the project/programme : Dean Roemmich. SIO -USA
Role of your data centre in the project/programme: One of the two Global data centres
URL of the project: http://www.argo.ucsd.edu/
URL of the project at your data centre web site: http://www.coriolis.eu.org/cdc/argo.htm
Starting date of the project/programme: 1999
Ending date of the project/programme:
Title of project/programme: GOSUD
Short description of the project/programme: The main objective of GOSUD (Global Ocean
Surface Underway Data Pilot Project) is to collect, process, archive and disseminate in real
time and delayed mode, sea surface salinity and other variables collected underway, by
research and opportunity ships
Main coordinator of the project/programme : R. Keeley, MEDS, Canada and L.Petit de la
Villéon, IFREMER, France
Role of your data centre in the project/programme: Global Data centre
URL of the project: http://www.gosud.org
URL of the project at your data centre web site: http://www.ifremer.fr/gosud/
Starting date of the project/programme: November 2001
Title of project/programme: MERSEA
Short description of the project/programme: Development of a European system for
operational monitoring and forecasting of the ocean physics, biogeochemistry, and
ecosystems, on global and regional scales.
Main coordinator of the project/programme: Y. Desaubies, IFREMER, France
Role of your data centre in the project/programme: Data management for the in situ observing
system
URL of the project: http://www.mersea.eu.org
URL of the project at your data centre web site:
http://www.mersea.eu.org/Insitu-Obs/1-Insitu-DataManagement.html
Starting date of the project/programme: 2004
Ending date of the project/programme: 2008
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11- IODE Priorities for 2007-2008
Should IODE start a new project and if so which one:
It should be better to enhance the existing projects. IODE supports a large amount of projects
Should IODE work on developing any new manuals and guides (or revise existing ones):
Yes. This is one of the important tasks of IODE
What IODE projects would you consider as the highest priority for the next inter-sessional
period:
Can you suggest new capacity building project that IODE should start :
Enhance the existing ones
12- National requirements
What are the requirements of your data centre/country that IODE should assist with.
13- IODE impact
How has your information centre benefited during the past two years from membership of the
IODE programme? This benefit can be direct (eg people trained) or indirect (eg thanks to the
training received our information centre was recognized by national research institutions as
the national oceanographic library). Please also indicate what the IODE programme
membership and participation allowed you to do that you would otherwise not (or less easily)
have been able to do.
14- Other comments
The IMDIS conference –International Marine Data and Information Systems Conference hass
been held in 2005 in Brest –France. http://www.ifremer.fr/imdis/
It as been organized by IFREMER with the support of IOC, Brest City and Britanny
Region. It was open to ocean scientists, engineers, administrators, managers, policy makers,
teachers and students.
The next conference IMDIS 2008 will be held in Athens –Greece. (IMDIS 2008)
31 March - 3 April 2008
http://www.iode.org/index.php?option=com_oe&task=viewEventRecord&eventID=125
It will be organized by the SeaDataNet Consortium.
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2- Details of the Coordinator for Marine Information Management:
For the moment, no IODE coordinator has been designated for Marine
Information Management. The details of the person to contact are described below.
Name: Dr MELGUEN Marthe
Address:
Bibliothèque La Pérouse (Centre de Documentation sur la Mer)
Technopôle Brest – Iroise, BP 70 – 29280 Plouzané - France
Tel: +33 (0)2.98.49.88.74
/ Fax: +33(0)2.98.49.88.84
E-mail: [email protected]
URL: http://www.ifremer.fr/blp/
Have you entered your details in OceanExpert (http://www.oceanexpert.net) :
O yes O No
PART II: REPORT FOR MARINE INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT
1- Type of information centre:
O National Oceanographic Library
O Institutional Library
O other: multi Institutional Library (Ifremer, Institut for Research and
Development (IRD), University of Western Brittany (UBO)
2- Details of the Coordinator for Marine Information Management:
For the moment, no IODE coordinator has been designated for Marine
Information Management. The details of the person to contact are described below.
Name: Dr MELGUEN Marthe
Address:
Bibliothèque La Pérouse (Centre de Documentation sur la Mer)
Technopôle Brest – Iroise, BP 70 – 29280 Plouzané - France
Tel: +33 (0)2.98.49.88.74
/ Fax: +33(0)2.98.49.88.84
E-mail: [email protected]
URL: http://www.ifremer.fr/blp/
Have you entered your details in OceanExpert (http://www.oceanexpert.net) :
O yes O No
3- Details of the Marine Information Centre:
Official name: Bibliothèque La Pérouse (Centre de Documentation sur la Mer)
Host Organization: Ifremer/IRD/ University of Western Brittany
Address: Technopôle Brest – Iroise, 15 rue Dumont d’Urville, BP 70 – 29280 Plouzané
Tel: +33()2.98.49.88.74
E-mail: [email protected]
URL: http://www.ifremer.fr/blp/
/ Fax: +33(0)2.98.49.88.84
Where there any major changes in your information centre or its host institution
during the past inter-sessional period? No
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4- IODE Marine Information Center Designation Date (date when the
institution was designated as IODE marine information centre):
No designation up to now
5- Resources available to your information centre
How many staff are working at your information centre: 14
How has this number changed year by year since the year 2000: the Center was opened in
September 2003. No change in between.
What is the annual operational budget for your information centre (excluding staff cost):
around 500 000 euros (and around 750 000 euros for the whole Ifremer marine information
programme, whose coordination is done by the BLP).
How has this changed year by year since the year 2000: increase of 7 % year (in average)
since 2003, in order to covert the permanent and severe increase of the subscriptions to the
information sources. One may notice that the BLP plays a national role for Ifremer in terms of
electronic resources access acquisition.
6- Online services provided by the information centre:
Note: a “service” is defined in this case as an online information product (eg
database/infobase) through which users can search, display and/or retrieve
oceanographic information (factual information, bibliographic information, multimedia
objects,…).
List here all online services provided by your information centre.
Title: the BLP Web site
Short description of the service: online, via internet, we give access to catalogues (BLP and
Ifremer), to an Open Access Archive (Archimer) and to a bibliographic data base, Avano,
issued from an harvesting operation conducted by the BLP at international level.
Related project (if appropriate): Archimer and Avano, both information sources being
available on line to the IODE Community.
URL: http://www.ifremer.fr/blp/docelec/
Focus audience(s) of the service:
Has the site been added to OceanPortal (http://www.oceanportal.org): no
Number of visits per month (average of the past year): around 4 000, taking into account
that we have enregistred more than 4 900 connections in 2006 on our Web site.
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7- IODE data flow
How many information objects have been received by your data centre and added to your
collection during the period May 2005 – December 2006: no data flow from the IODE
network (to which we don’t belong up to now), except from Ifremer (ie. SISMER reports)
- Journal issues:
……/…….
- Monographs:
……/…….
- e-publications (as part of e-repository): ……/…….
- Other:
……/…….
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o
Specify: ……………………………/……………………
Does your iformation centre maintain a holdings catalog: O yes
If you answered ‘Yes’ to the previous question then is the catalog available online:
O yes
If you answered ‘Yes’ to the previous question then what is the URL:
http://www.ifremer.fr/blp/
8- Oceanographic data policy
How is your country applying the 'IOC Oceanographic Data Exchange Policy’ adopted as
Resolution IOC-XXII-6 in 2003? For the reasons above mentioned we are not involved in the
IOC data exchange program.
9- Role of the Information Centre at the national level
Can you describe the architecture of marine information management in your country? (in
other words which institutions/organizations in your country are involved in marine
information management and what interactions do you have with these and what role does
your Information Centre play at the national level
In France, we do have around ten libraries and documentation Centers dedicated to marine
information. The La Perouse Library is, as far as the recent (1970– 2006), literatures is
concerned the major one. It has no official national role, but belongs to several networks, to
which it offers it services.
10- Cooperation in national and international programmes/projects
Please list all national and international projects and programmes in which your marine
information centre is currently involved:
1) Title of project/programme: Open Access National Archive
Short description of the project/programme: Project HAL, launched by the CNRS three years
ago and extended at national level in 2006.
Main coordinator of the project/programme (Name of person, Institution, Country) : Franck
Laloë, Head of the Center for Direct Scientific Communication (CCSD).
Role of your information centre in the project/programme: be, in the name of Ifremer, a
partner of the CCSD and of other research organisms, members of the project, and transfer in
the national archive a copy of Archimer data.
URL of the project: not defined until now
URL of the project at your information centre web site:
Starting date of the project/programme: 2007 or 2008
Ending date of the project/programme:
Total budget of the project/programme:
Funding received by your information centre from the project/programme: no funding
Does the project cover staff cost in your information centre: O no
2) Title of project/programme: “Aquatic Commons”, project conducted by a few IAMSLIC
members, in order to help the whole community getting free access to the marine information.
Main coordinator of the project/programme (Name of person, Institution, Country) : an
executive board, to which we belong we may mention that COI and FAO support the project.
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Role of your information centre in the project/programme: we have developed a marine
information harvester, AVANO, which will be one of the component of the project. Up to
now, the IASMLIC community is using, free of charge, the AVANO bibliographic date base.
URL of AVANO : see BLP Web site, or search for AVANO on google.
11- IODE Priorities for 2007-2008
Should IODE start a new project and if so which one: as we do not know what are the
ongoing projects, we cannot ask for anything new.
Should IODE work on developing any new manuals and guides (or revise existing ones):
same answer for the same reasons.
What IODE projects would you consider as the highest priority for the next inter-sessional
period: same answer.
Can you suggest new capacity building project that IODE should start : no
12- National requirements
What are the requirements of your information centre/country that IODE should assist with:
no particular suggestion.
13- IODE impact
How has your data centre benefited during the past two years from membership of the IODE
programme? This benefit can be direct (eg people trained) or indirect (eg thanks to the
training received our data centre was recognized by national research institutions as the
relevant place to archive their data). Please also indicate what the IODE programme
membership and participation allowed you to do that you would otherwise not (or less easily)
have been able to do: no direct benefit, because we have not involved in the IODE program.
14- Other comments
Add other comments, as relevant: up to now the BLP does not play any role in terms of
National Marine Information Center. Nevertheless, we might imagine that it could, in the
future, be involved and support t the IODE National Coordinator for France.