Data Working Group members, it has been a couple months since our last call and with spring upon us, it is time to regroup. We are about to finalize draft recommendations related to the WCODP supporting regional and sub-regional marine planning on the West Coast and will be implementing those recommendations over the next several months.

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The next data working group call will be Thursday 11/19 at 2pm. We will be discussing data synthesis priorities for the upcoming year. You can reference the Priorities Doc
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cKvqpj6yIy6qrM0LO2WkSHUMZGBrdJl4CjZGrTVgrc4/edit#gid=360090467

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The next Data Working Group call will be held on Thurs. Oct. 22nd from 2-3pm PST. Hope you can join!

Agenda
Data Publication Updates
Moore Grant
Data Development Approach

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We are resuming regular meetings in anticipation of some award funds we recieved to develop regional and sub regional priority data to support MSP on the West Coast. Our next meeting will be help Thursday Oct. 22 at 2pm. I hope you can join us! -TH

Agenda
Data Publication Updates
Moore Grant
Data Development Approach

Call Info
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The Data Working Group had their monthly call today. We welcomed Jennifer Patterson (CeNCOOS) as the new lead for this group and were able to review the data development products and plans. Thanks also to Allison Bailey for walking us through the data sets. You can read the full call notes here (http://network.westcoastoceans.org/?p=483).

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The Data Working Group had their monthly call yesterday to discuss current data development activities of the Network. We got some great feedback on the closed and restricted fishery areas, kelp, and littoral cell data being developed by SoundGIS that will greatly increase the value of these data products. You can read the full call notes here.…[Read more]

The Data Working Group met today to discuss the structure and function of the West Coast Ocean Data Network Knowledge Base which will serve as a resource for people interested in sharing and contributing data to the the WCODP. We also heard an update about our ongoing data development project to create new data products related to kelp, littoral…[Read more]

Hey all, thanks to those who were able to join the call last week. We were able to discuss resources for our Data Development project and provide some definitions around “Authoritative Data” for the West Coast Ocean Data Portal.

Data Development Project – We discussed the data priorities that will be addressed through upcoming funded work…[Read more]

Hey all, I wanted to remind folks of our monthly data working group call this Thursday from 2-3 pm. We will go into some depth about the data development project about to get underway and have a discussion about “authoritative data”. Both of these discussions will have implications for our Best Practices Guide and what will be coming available in…[Read more]