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World Data Center PanelUpdate, March 2007
David Clark
Acting Secretary, WDC Panel
eGY Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, USA
March 13, 2007
WDC Panel, February 2007
Jean-Bernard Minster, Scripps Institution of Oceanography - Chair
Hartmut Grassl, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology – Vice Chair
David Clark, NOAA/NGDC – Acting SecretaryMichael Chinnery, TreasurerTakashi Watanabe, Ibaraki University – Japan
RepresentativeGennady Sobolev, Russian Academy of Sciences –
Russia RepresentativeSUN Honglie, Chinese Academy of Sciences – China
RepresentativeFerris Webster, University of Delaware – US
Representative
WDC Panel Meeting ICSU Secretariat, Paris, March 29-30 2007
• Representatives from ICSU, GEO, CODATA, and Federation of Astronomical and Geophysical Data Analysis Services (FAGS)
• Agenda items include:– ICSU PAA SDI recommendations– Relationship between FAGS and WDC– WDC and GEO– CODATA Strategic Plan– Future of the WDC System
WDC Directors Conference Bremen, Germany, May 7-9 2007
• Attendance by WDC Directors, and many others (ICSU, GEO, CODATA, National Data Center Directors, etc.)
• Agenda will include similar topics as the WDC Panel meeting but will also have splinter group sessions on:– Data quality and accessibility (open access)– Networking (infrastructures)– WDCs and GEOSS