Data Management in International Monitoring Programs Joint Workshop of the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the Common Wadden Sea Secretariat (CWSS)
EU Life-project DEMOWAD	Copenhagen 18th/19th February 1998

Agenda

Wednesday, 18 February 1998

14:00	Mr. E. Papathanassiou (EEA, Copenhagen) Opening and introduction to the workshop
14:30	Mr. M. Joanny (IFREMER, ETC/MC, France) Overview of the marine monitoring data management in Europe (Author(s) Michel Joanny and Muriel Relandeau)
15:00	Mr. J. R. Larsen (ICES, Denmark) The management of marine environmental data at the ICES Data Centre
15:30	Mr. G. Lüerßen (CWSS, Germany) DEMOWAD: Data Management of Wadden Sea monitoring data within the Trilateral Monitoring and Assessment Program (TMAP)
16:30	Mr. S. Wilson (AMAP, Norway) Data handling activities and experiences within the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP)
17:00	Mr. H. Niesing (RWS, The Netherlands) REMSSBOT: An architecture to access environmental information independent of structure and location
17:30	Mr. J. Kroos (RIKZ, The Netherlands) Data management in the Netherlands
18:00	End of session
19:00	Dinner

Thursday, 19 February 1998

08:45 - 09:45	On-line presentation of DEMOWAD, REMSSBOT, ICES and AMAP.
09:45 - 12:30	Plenary discussion: Technical and administrational aspects of data management systems 1. Discussion on the presented data management systems. 2. Identifying the main gaps and obstacles in international data management. 3.Future cooperation on international and bilateral level.
12:30 - 13:00	Conclusions and Recommendations
13:00	Closure of the meeting