https://www.oceanexpert.org
Objectives
OceanExpert is a global directory containing information on
- Individuals: contact information, degree, affiliations, links to events, trainings and documents
- Organizations: contact information and affiliations
- Events: organizer information, content, participants, documents
- Trainings: organizer information, content, participants, documents
- documents: training information, meeting reports, …
that are related to marine and freshwater knowledge.
Establishment
While OceanExpert was initially an activity managed by the IODE GE-MIN, the 23rd session of the IODE committee (2015) established OceanExpert as a Project through Recommendation IODE-XIII.2. (more under governance)
Governance
The OceanExpert project is managed by a steering group
Activities
It is a free and open database where the information is entered and maintained by its users (users keep full responsibility and ownership of their data). Individual professionals are welcome to contribute (and update) their records to this online database, to add to the already more than 20,000 of records in the directory (https://oceanexpert.org/statistics). While, it is an open access product, it can be used only for non-profit purposes.
The data is used in many IOC sites (e.g. https://ioc.unesco.org/events, OceanTeacher,… ), to manage information on trainings, events, experts participating in IOC events. in that regard OceanExpert is an essential IOC communications tool.
As an individual professional, you are welcome to add your information to our directory: www.oceanexpert.org/register .
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History
OceanExpert was developed in 1997 under the auspices of the IODE Group of Experts on Marine Information Management (GE-MIM) and was called the GLODIR (Global Directory of Marine(and Freshwater) Professionals). In 2022 the GLODIR was renamed to OceanExpert to create more possibilities (search options, send out mails,…)
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Created on: Saturday, 16 December 2006 18:21
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Last Updated on: Monday, 30 January 2023 13:32