Ocean Data Management Training with OceanTeacher

oceanteacher.org

OceanTeacher Objective

• The objective of Ocean Teacher is to provide training tools for Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange. These tools are used during IODE Training Courses but can also be used for self training and continuous professional development.

OceanTeacher Structure

• Digital Library – Software– Data Examples – Exercises

• Course Manuals • OceanPortal – Separate, but integrated website

Digital Library

• 6 years testing & use

• 7500 resource documents

• 4400 illustrations

• 17,500+ internal links

• 16,000+ external links

• 1.5 GB

Library Contents

• Oceanography Today

• Information Technology & Scientific Communication

• Information Management Principles

• Information Management Processes

• Data Management Principles

• Data Management Processes

Course Manuals

• Introductory/Inter-disciplinary– 5 courses available

• Data Management– 7 courses available– 8 courses proposed or

in preparation

• CATALOG

OceanPortal

• http://www.oceanportal.org

• Stand-alone catalog of websites for data & information– 5000 indexed sites in a searchable,

hierarchical system– Approximately 1300 data sites

• Now also the catalog for many resources in OceanTeacher

Software

• “Toolbox” of 30+ free programs– Ready to install– Documentation

• MENU• Catalog of several

hundred others in about a dozen topical areas

• 17 special format conversion programs

Exercises

• Information Technology & Scientific Communication – 17 titles– CATALOG

• Data Management– 55 “Roadmaps”– 5 special purpose– CATALOG

OT Technical Scope

• Ocean station data

• Satellite data

• Bathymetry + topography

• Operational oceanographic data– Drifters– Buoys

• Almost no time series data instruction

Links

• OceanTeacher main site– oceanteacher.org

• Data management training information– ioc.unesco.org/oceanteacher/DMtraining

• OceanPortal– oceanportal.org

• murraybr@bellsouth.net