From west_coast_data_network at listsmart.osl.state.or.us Thu Nov 20 16:26:53 2014 From: west_coast_data_network at listsmart.osl.state.or.us (west_coast_data_network at listsmart.osl.state.or.us) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:26:53 -0800 Subject: [West Coast Ocean Data Network] Building an ocean data community! Message-ID: The West Coast Governors Alliance on Ocean Health (WCGA) and the West Coast Ocean Data Network held a successful and productive meeting Nov. 3-4, 2014 in Costa Mesa, CA. The meeting brought together over 60 ocean and coastal data managers and data users from state and federal agencies, tribal governments, research universities, and NGOs to highlight accomplishments of the Network over the last three years, increase data sharing capacity through trainings and demos, solicit feedback on the West Coast Ocean Data Portal, chart the long term strategy for the Network, and build a data sharing community for the West Coast. You can read the executive summary here. *User Feedback Surveys* In particular, the meeting underscored the launch of the Data Viewer to help users explore, understand, and inform regional ocean health issues as well as Networking tools to help the West Coast Ocean Data Network stay connected. You can help improve these tools by visiting the Portal and completing the following User Feedback surveys by *Dec. 15, 2014*. * - Catalog Survey - Viewer Survey - Network Survey * *Training Resources* One of the highlights of the meeting were the development of training materials related to successful data sharing and best practices for publishing metadata and web services. You can access the training materials at http://network.westcoastoceans.org/training-resources/. *Contact* You can visit the West Coast Ocean Data Portal at *http://portal.westcoastoceans.org* . If you wish to learn more or contribute your data to the Portal, please contact Todd Hallenbeck (*Todd.r.hallenbeck at Westcoastoceans.org* ). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: