[West Coast Ocean Data Network] Building an ocean data community!

[west_coast_data_network at listsmart.osl.state.or.us]

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.
<http://network.westcoastoceans.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/West-Coast-Ocean-Data-Network-Meeting-Executive-Summary.pdf>

*User Feedback Surveys*

In particular, the meeting underscored the launch of the Data Viewer
<http://maps.westcoastoceans.org/> to help users explore, understand, and
inform regional ocean health issues as well as Networking tools
<http://network.westcoastoceans.org/> to help the West Coast Ocean Data
Network stay connected. You can help improve these tools by visiting the
Portal  <http://portal.westcoastoceans.org/> and completing the following
User Feedback surveys by *Dec. 15, 2014*.





* - Catalog Survey <http://goo.gl/ZfrCaS>  - Viewer Survey
<http://goo.gl/7MUNAe>  - Network Survey <http://goo.gl/WhlQdc> *

*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* <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*
<Todd.r.hallenbeck at Westcoastoceans.org>).
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