Standards

Data Management and Exchange Standards

• IODE Group of Experts on BIological and CHemical (GE-BICH) data management and exchange practices

  One of the objectives of GE-BICH is to contribute to the development of standards, controlled vocabularies, and recommended practices for the management, interoperability and exchange of biological and chemical data, supporting the scientific and operational requirements of the community

• The Ocean Data Standards Pilot Project (ODS)

  Process set up by IODE and JCOMMfor adopting Standards

Taxonomic Standards and Code Tables

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
• World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
• Canadian Register of Marine Species (CaRMS)

Oceanographic Data Standards and Code Tables

• ISDM Code List
• ISDM Dictionary of Oceanographic Codes
• WMO International Codes
• NODC World Ocean Database (WOD) Code Tables
• NODC Global Temperature Salinity Profile Program Codes

Quality Control Procedures Standards

• Quality Control of Bottle Data at Maurice Lamontagne Institute (PDF - 785 KB)
• GTSPP Real-Time Quality Control Manual, revised edition, 2010
• Argo Quality Control manual