Ocean Data Management Training with OceanTeacher oceanteacher.org

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Ocean Data Management Training with
OceanTeacheroceanteacher.org
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OceanTeacher Objective

• The objective of Ocean Teacher is to provide
  training tools for Oceanographic Data and
  Information Exchange. These tools are used during
  IODE Training Courses but can also be used for
  self training and continuous professional
  development.

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OceanTeacher Structure

• Digital Library
• Software
• Data Examples
• Exercises
• Course Manuals
• OceanPortal Separate, but integrated website

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Digital Library

• 6 years testing use
• 7500 resource documents
• 4400 illustrations
• 17,500 internal links
• 16,000 external links
• 1.5 GB

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Library Contents

• Oceanography Today
• Information Technology Scientific Communication
• Information Management Principles
• Information Management Processes
• Data Management Principles
• Data Management Processes

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Course Manuals

• Introductory/Inter-disciplinary
• 5 courses available
• Data Management
• 7 courses available
• 8 courses proposed or in preparation
• CATALOG

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OceanPortal

• http//www.oceanportal.org
• Stand-alone catalog of websites for data
  information
• 5000 indexed sites in a searchable, hierarchical
  system
• Approximately 1300 data sites
• Now also the catalog for many resources in
  OceanTeacher

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Software

• Toolbox of 30 free programs
• Ready to install
• Documentation
• MENU
• Catalog of several hundred others in about a
  dozen topical areas
• 17 special format conversion programs

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Exercises

• Information Technology Scientific Communication
  
• 17 titles
• CATALOG
• Data Management
• 55 Roadmaps
• 5 special purpose
• CATALOG

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OT Technical Scope

• Ocean station data
• Satellite data
• Bathymetry topography
• Operational oceanographic data
• Drifters
• Buoys
• Almost no time series data instruction

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Links

• OceanTeacher main site
• oceanteacher.org
• Data management training information
• ioc.unesco.org/oceanteacher/DMtraining
• OceanPortal
• oceanportal.org
• murraybr_at_bellsouth.net