Thursday, 14 December 2000 |
08.45-09.30 |
Registration at
PCU |
09.30-09.45 |
Welcome, agenda
adoption. |
09.45-10.15 |
Introduction of
the DIM objectives, overall DIM structure. |
| 10.15-10.45 |
Structure of the Caspian Information
System
- Bibliographic information module
- Scientists/Experts
- Institutions
- Data Sets
- Programs/Projects
|
10.45-11.00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11.00-11.30 |
Structure of the Caspian Information
System (continuation)
- Events (new module)
- Detailed Caspian Sea Data Inventory (station/variable level)
- Collection and loading of information
|
11.30-11.45 |
Discussion |
11.45-12.45 |
Data and
information exchange, availability of environmental data in the Region.
- Available published data
- Data from International expeditions and projects
- Oil and Gas companies data
- IODE system
- Some International principles of the data exchange
|
12.45-13.00 |
Discussion |
13.00-14.00 |
Lunch |
14.00-15.45 |
Data collected by
the CRTCs. Brief reports of the CRTCs on data and information management (collected
variables, sources of data, data processing, problems), 10 minutes for each CRTC. |
15.45-16.00 |
Coffee Break |
16.00-16.30 |
CEP on the WWW
- CEP homepage
- Biodiversity CRTC homepage
- Homepages of other CRTCs.
|
16.30-17.00 |
Potential Input
from other international organizations
- GRID/Geneva (GIS)
- GRID/Arendal. (State of Environment Report)
- IPIECA and UNEP-WCMC (Interactive Map Service)
|
17.00-17.15 |
Organization of
education and training
|
17.15-18.00 |
Discussion |
18.00 |
Adjourn for the
day |
Friday, 15 December 2000 |
9.00-10.30 |
Establishment of
the databases for the Caspian Sea
- Database of secondary (derived) data
- Database of raw data
- OceanBase DBMS and its usage
- Approaches to create unified integrated regional database
|
10.30-10.45 |
Discussion |
10.45-11.00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11.00-11.45 |
Caspian Geographical Information
System
- Structure
- Existing layers
- Main sources of new data
|
11.45-12.45 |
Caspian Sea
Biodiversity database
- Existing examples
- Possible structures
- Collecting of data and information
|
12.45-13.00 |
Discussion |
13.00-14.00 |
Lunch |
| 14.00-15.45 |
Standardization of formats for data
and information exchange
- Format for the detailed data Inventory
- IODE data formats
- GIS data exchange format
- Cruise data formats
|
15.45-16.00 |
Coffee Break |
16.00-17.00 |
Final Discussion |
17.00-18.00 |
Conclusions and
recommendations of the meeting |
18.00 |
Closure of the
meeting |
19.00 |
Dinner |
