Connecting Glider data flows in Europe and beyond

The meeting aims to provide a forum for exchanging ideas and experiences around glider data management, and to build towards a collaborative framework for the management of glider data at the European level, that also fits within initiatives at the Global level.
The meeting is supported by OceanGliders, the developing global glider network and community. OceanGliders is an emerging important member of the global observing system under GOOS (Global Ocean Observing System) and JCOMM ( Joint Technical Commission for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology)
The aim is to bring together different glider operators and communities, across Europe and globally, that are working in glider data collection and data management. With the purpose of sharing experiences, assessing a proposed pilot framework for a European (delayed mode and real-time) glider-specific data network, and identifying key issues and way forward.
In the next years, the glider network will become an important and sustained component of this wider system and contribute to delivering data to support the Global Ocean Observing System, delivering data of for climate, marine ecosystem health and operational services.
In this perspective, the glider community needs to organize itself around the application of internationally agreed data-management best practices that includes:
•    data stewardship,
•    FAIR principles,
•    metadata standards,
•    data-quality best practice,
•    sharing of tools to support data processing and management,
•    performance metrics
The meeting will approach these questions to deliver operational guidelines for a European delayed mode and real-time glider data management system, independent of glider type and which is accessible for glider teams of different capacity.

more details@: https://www.ego-network.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=public:egodmmeeting:september2018