OceanTeacher

From OceanTeacher

1 Background & Introduction
2 Learning Resources in OceanTeacher
3 Specific Technical Topics in OceanTeacher
4 About OceanTeacher's WIKI Format

OCEANTEACHER IS BEING RE-WRITTEN DURING 2009, SO YOU WILL FIND ARTICLES THAT ARE IN DRAFT, EMPTY, OR CONTAIN FRAGMENTARY TEXT RESCUED FROM THE PREDECESSOR SYSTEM. WE ANTICIPATE THAT OCEANTEACHER WILL BE SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETE BY THE END OF 2009.

THE EDITORS

Background & Introduction

Welcome to OceanTeacher, an online encyclopedia about marine data management and marine information management, designed for training advanced students and mid-level professionals. OceanTeacher consists of a large number of integrated articles on information and data topics, paired with a set of course manuals that "point" to selected articles and exercises, in a highly organized way. OceanTeacher is designed to disseminate knowledge to a professional audience of marine data and information managers working in marine data and information centres worldwide. But it may also be of interest to marine scientists, university students and policy makers.

You may find information on any marine data and information management topic by entering a corresponding term in the search window. “Go” will direct you to an article with this title (if such an article exists); “Search” will provide an overview of articles in which your search term appears. You will find an explanation of terms and acronyms in the Glossary.

OceanTeacher is an activity of the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) Programme of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC) . The OceanTeacher project is managed by the IODE Steering Group for OceanTeacher.

We also invite marine data and information managers to make a contribution by sharing their knowledge and expertise. You may contribute in several ways: you may improve or update an existing article, you may add a discussion page to an existing article or you may add a new topic. For more information on contributing to OceanTeacher, contact Dr. Wouter Rommens, IODE Project Ofﬁce Training Coordinator

(wouter.rommens@iode.org) or Peter Pissierssens, IODE Programme Coordinator (p.pissierssens@unesco.org)

Learning Resources in OceanTeacher

General Information: Overview information, information for editors and authors, contact information and other explanatory materials
Marine Information Management: [To be provided]
Marine Data Management: The techniques and methods used by professional earth scientists to build, quality-manage, catalog, and operate marine data assemblies in support of a broad range of research, survey and operational programs, including governmental and intergovernmental elemosynary agencies. Operations include the provision of data to the user community, according to disciplinary, temporal, spatial and formatting requirements, and the publication of higher-level, usually multi-disciplinary, synthesis products beyond the scope of typical individual requests. Marine data management extends to include public and formal education about the nature and content of marine databases, and about the proper interpretation/use of major data products and analyses.

Specific Technical Topics in OceanTeacher

The hundreds of topics covered in OT are presented hierarchically as subsections under the above categories, shown in the expandable menu on the left at BROWSE > PUBLIC CONTENT. You can use this menu to go directly to any desired subsection, or you can browse sequentially down through the sections from the highest levels.