ESSIC/CISESS Scientist Liqing Jiang recently hosted the first International Workshop to Advance Ocean Carbon and Acidification Data Management and Interoperability in Venice, Italy on May 7-8 2024.
The main objectives of the workshop were (1) to determine the data management needs of the ocean carbon and acidification research community, with specific reference to synthesis (product) data needs, along with United Nations decade requirements and (2) to identify criteria for optimal data management systems and workflows from data collection to synthesis products. Other topics included coming to a consensus on common metadata and data standards to use to meet scientific and data management objectives.
The main objectives of the workshop were to (1) to determine the data management needs of the ocean carbon and acidification research community, with specific reference to synthesis (product) data needs, along with United Nations decade requirements; (2) to identify criteria for optimal data management systems and workflows from data collection to synthesis products; (3) to agree on common metadata standards, including controlled vocabularies by building on recent development; (4) identify common data standards to meet scientific and data management objectives; and (5) document meeting results in a joint paper documenting the proceedings of this workshop and proposing a recurring schedule for future meetings.
Though this workshop was invitation only, all proceedings out of this workshop will be sent out to a broader research community to seek their feedback.
Jiang is a chemical oceanographer specializing in the study of inorganic carbon cycling and ocean acidification in the global oceans. He received his Ph.D in Marine Sciences from the University of Georgia in 2009 and did his postdoctoral research at Yale University. Jiang has been working at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) since 2011. Currently, he serves as the lead of the Ocean Carbon and Acidification Data System (OCADS), which is co-funded by NOAA’s Ocean Acidification Program, Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing Program, and NCEI. In addition to data management, Jiang spends a lot of his time on data synthesis efforts.
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