LAST UPDATE: 28 February 2021
[PRESS RELEASE]
The International Ocean Data Conference took place in Sopot, Poland, between 14-16 February 2022 as a hybrid event and was attended by over 590 online and 60 on-site participants.
Organized jointly by the Government of Poland through the Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences (IOPAN), the IODE Programme of the IOC and the Decade Coordination Unit, the conference was set to achieve its main objectives: to consider regional and global strategies and policy needed to achieve the digital ecosystem; to discuss existing and required technological developments and their implementation, and to identify future directions in ocean data and information management. The mentioned objectives will furthermore be considered within the multi-sectoral vision of the UN Ocean Decade.
During the conference several important recommendations were made jointly by the global ocean data and information management community:
- need for increased efforts in standardisation, best practices and harmonization as well as wider application of FAIR and CARE principles
- increase the widest community engagement including citizen science, indigenous knowledge and improving data literacy
- need to increase efforts in global data and information system interoperability and networking to achieve a global ocean digital commons and data ecosystem, also achieving interconnection and integration of data systems (digital twins) from different disciplines and sectors (including private sector) related to the ocean
- foster integrated multi-hazard warning systems within Earth System Observation, Research, and Prediction programmes, not only aiming at ocean health, but manifesting the 7 Decade's societal outcomes underlining the qualities of the ocean and of the people.
In the context of the UN Ocean Decade, the global ocean data and marine value chain community will have collectively enabled a ‘living’ ocean digital ecosystem:
- data provenance will be fully traceable via a common set of metadata enriched with thematic/sector/uptake relevant tagging information e.g., relevance to EOVs, SDGs;
- the ocean digital ecosystem will be fully machine searchable and actionable, meaning that when data or metadata are updated, it will be automatically streamlined and available throughout the data pipeline and via the global digital commons;
Update September 2021:
Since IODE-XXII (2013) every Session of the IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) has been preceded by a Scientific Workshop or Conference. This was also planned for IODE-XXVI in 2021 but due to the Covid19 pandemic this was not possible: the IODE-XXVI Session was held as a fully online event.
The original host of IODE-XXVI (Poland) has kindly offered to host instead the "International Ocean Data Conference 2022 - The Data We Need for the Ocean We Want" in Sopot, Poland, which will be held between 14-16 February 2022. The Conference will be held as a hybrid event with a number of participants on-site while others will participate through video conference.
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Created on: Wednesday, 20 January 2021 09:54
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Last Updated on: Monday, 28 February 2022 16:07