GE-BICH V took place in Ostend, Belgium, on 17-20 January 2011.
The final report is available from the following link.
Briefly, the issues addressed were as follows:
- Review of GE-BICH IV actions list and workplan (see attachments below);
- Vocabularies - status of GE-BICH IV planned work, submisssion of vocab lists to SeaVox and future directions plus presentations from invited experts;
- QA/QC procedures including quality control flags - actions from the IODE QA/QC workshop (see attachment below) plus presentations from invited experts;
- Online access and provision of chemical and biological data: survey of the IODE Ocean Data Portal and the SeaDataNet portal;
- Collaboration with GE-OBIS;
- Collaboration with IPHAB and input to the Harmful Algal Information System;
- Submissions to Ocean Data Standards including Quality Control Flag scheme proposal.
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