The data management meeting was held in Vienna, Austria at 9:00 am on the 10th of April and finished at1:00 pm on the 11th of April. 31 persons attended the meeting from many countries involved in OceanSites(see attendance list in Steering Committee report). It was chaired by S.Pouliquen/Ifremer andB.Burnett/NDBC.As part of the introductory words, there was a reminder and general agreement that OceanSITES has to bepart of the JCOMM observing system and thus should be coherent and consistent with it. There is a large needand demand for timeseries data and an organized global data system, and the Data Team has to make thishappen without re-inventing the wheel.
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