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