International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) Ocean Data Portal

The objective of the Ocean Data Portal is to facilitate and promote the exchange and dissemination marine data and services. The Ocean Data Portal will provide seamless access to collections and inventories of marine data from the NODCs in the IODE network and will allow for the discovery, evaluation (through visualisation and metadata review) and access to data via web services. The system architecture will use Web-oriented information technologies to access non-homogeneous and geographically distributed marine data and information. ODP will be developed in close cooperation with existing and developing initiatives such as the IODE/JCOMM E2EDM Pilot Project, SeaDataNet, WIS, Australian Oceans Portal, US DMAC, Russian ESIMO and others. The ODP will also support the data access requirements of other IOC programmes areas, including GOOS, JCOMM, HAB and the Tsunami warning system. The ODP development will also work closely with other international initiatives including WIS and GEOSS to ensure interoperability with other domains. The Portal will provide on-line access to the marine data and information resources of the participating data centres including: 1) operational and delay-mode data; 2) data and services from the oceanographic and marine meteorological domains; 3) from multiple data source formats and local data systems (DBMS, data files, GIS, electronic documents; 4) from multiple data providers in different geographic regions.