The IODE Programme is managed by the IODE Committee that meets every 2-3 years. Within the IOC structure the IODE Committee is a "Technical Committee" that is directly answerable to the IOC Governing Bodies (IOC Assembly and IOC Executive Council).
Membership of the IODE Committee includes:
- the two IODE Co-Chairs
- the IODE National Coordinators for Ocean Data Management
- the IODE National Coordinators for Marine Information Management
- ADU contacts (since 2013, IODE-XXII)
- AIU contacts (since 2017, IODE-XXIV)
- (optional: Directors of WDCs, now part of the WDS)
Terms of Reference. The Eighth Session of the IOC Assembly decided that the Working Group for International Oceanographic Data Exchange be renamed Working Committee (Resolution VIII31) and it also amended its Terms of Reference (Report of the Eighth Session of the IOC Assembly, Document SC/MD/39, Annex V, page 8, Item II). The Working Committee on International Oceanographic Data Exchange shall:
- facilitate exchange of oceanographic data, the standardization of forms for reporting and coding data, the encouragement of the preparation of data catalogues and the assistance of development of national oceanographic data centres;
- facilitate exchange of, and access and referral to, information resulting from, or relating to marine programmes emanating from related activities (ASFIS, MEDI, UNISIST, UNEP, IRS, CODATA, etc.);
- review and re-appraise the whole international oceanographic data exchange system, recommending changes to the Commission, as appropriate;
- continue and encourage format standardization for use with automated techniques for data input, storage, retrieval dissemination and exchange;
- continue the development of means whereby geological-geophysical, biological, special air-sea interaction, marine pollution data and data from continuously recording and remote sensors are incorporated into the international oceanographic data exchange system;
- take action as necessary to give effect to the Commission's policy decisions, within its prescribed Terms of Reference;
- make recommendations to the Commission on policy matters within its Terms of Reference and on the need for Consultants and/or temporary Groups of Experts to deal with special scientific and technical matters connected with the Commission's programmes;
- report regularly and make recommendations to the Commission of the work accomplished and on future action required and prepare with the assistance of the Secretary, a draft two-year programme of the work and financial requirements for submission to each Assembly;
- maintain close collaboration with World, National, Regional and Responsible Data Centres, with the other Working Committees, with the International Co-ordination Groups for the Co-operative Investigations, and with international organizations, within its Terms of Reference;
- have the right to form ad hoc task teams to carry out specific parts of the work of the Committee during intersessional periods provided no costs fall on the Commission;
- make recommendations to the Assembly and the Executive Council regarding the provision of technical guidance and for the formulation and execution of the marine science programmes of UNESCO relating to marine data and information management, and, when appropriate, to facilitate co-ordination with related programmes of other ICSPRO agencies.
History: During the Intergovernmental Conference on Oceanographic Research, 1960, at which the setting up of an Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission was recommended, certain initial tasks for the new Commission were outlined and amongst these was included the requirement for a structure to co-ordinate international oceanographic data exchange.
- The first formal establishment of a Working Group on Exchange of Oceanographic Data was made by IOC Resolution I9 adopted at the First Session of the Commissin in October 1961, which also prescribed that:
The mission of this Working Group shall be the facilitating of exchange of oceanographic data, the standardization of forms for reporting and coding data, the encouragement of the preparation of data catalogues, and the assistance of development of national oceanographic data centres.
- The Commission authorised the continuation of the Working Group at its Second Session (September 1962).
- In 1986, at its 12th Session, the Working Committee on International Oceanographic Data Exchange, renamed itself to 'the Working Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange'
- As from its 13th Session, the Working Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange was known as the 'IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange' (IODE)
The Fourteenth Session of the IOC Assembly (Paris, 17 March - 1 April 1987) noting the increasing interest in marine scientific information ... recalling also the decision of the Executive Council at its Nineteenth Session, on the Guidelines for the Structure and Responsibilities of the Subsidiary Bodies of the Commission, changed the name of the Technical Committee on International Oceanographic Data Exchange to the
IOC Committee on Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange, retaining the acronym IODE.
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