GE-BICH Mission Statement is “To
promote greater integration of biological, chemical, and physical data within
IODE’s network of national data centres in support of biogeochemical research,
and ecosystem studies and management.”
The Terms of Reference of the Group, last revised in January 2009 and adopted by the IODE-XX are
- To provide an international
forum, raising awareness about new initiatives, best practices, and emerging
standards for biological and chemical data management and exchange practices;
- To collate and compile guidelines, supporting the integrated management
and quality control of biological and chemical data in IODE’s network of
national oceanographic data centres;
- 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;
- To encourage data centres to compile inventories of past and present
biological and chemical data holdings, and make data available to global
databases and specialised data portals;
- To encourage data holders to contribute data to data centres for the
creation of regional and global integrated oceanographic databases
incorporating physical, chemical and biological data;
- To communicate the results from the GE to the wider community of data
managers, providers and users.
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