A new ICSU World Data System (WDS) has been created through a decision of the 29th General Assembly of the International Council for Science (ICSU) in 2008.
WDS builds on the 50-year legacy of the ICSU World Data Centre system (WDC) and the ICSU Federation of Astronomical and Geophysical data-analysis Services.
The WDS concept aims at a transition from existing stand-alone WDCs and individual Services to a common globally interoperable distributed data system, that incorporates emerging technologies and new scientific data activities.
The new system will build on the potential offered by advanced interconnections between data management components for disciplinary and multidisciplinary applications.
IODE has become a "network member" of the World Data System on 6 March 2013. (see also on this page) Through this membership all IODE NODCs will be linked to the WDS. The former WDC Oceanography, Silver Springs, USA is also a member of the WDS and will retain its name "WDC Oceanography".
The 1st ICSU World Data System Conference - Global data for Global Science - was held in Kyoto, Japan, 4-6 September 2011. In this Conference IODE was represented by Mr Greg Reed (former iODE Co-Chair, and Mr Peter Pissierssens (IODE Programme Corodinator).
In his paper "Providing quality-assessed oceanographic data and services to the international science community", co-authored with Lesley Rickards and Ariel Troisi, Greg outlined the 50 years of achievements by IODE. He gave special attention to the global network of NODCs and their functions, the existing collaboration with the former WDCs and their importance to IODE, as well as to the IODE ODP, ODS and IODE capacity development.
Prior to 2008 we had the World Data Center System:
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The World Data Centers (WDC) for Oceanography were part of a global network of discipline subcenters (WDCs) that facilitated international exchange of scientific data. Originally established during the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58, the World Data Center System functioned under the guidance of the International Council for Science (ICSU). WDC for Oceanography, Silver Spring, was collocated with, and operated by, the U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC).
In accordance with principles set forth by ICSU, WDC for Oceanography acquires, catalogues, and archives data, publications, and data inventory forms and makes them available to requesters in the international scientific community. Oceanographic data contributed to the WDC become automatically available to scientific investigators in any country. Thus, there can be no restrictions or limitations placed on data exchanged through the WDC system. However, for certain types of data, the exchange of inventories of available data in a WDC subcenter may be considered acceptable in lieu of the transfer of the actual data sets.
The WDC System was managed by the ICSU Panel on WDCs.
There werely 4 WDCs Oceanography (out of a total of 51 WDCs):
The WDC for Oceanography, Silver Spring was also the project office of the GODAR project, under the leadership of Mr Sydney Levitus.
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