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Created on:                   Wed 23 Apr 2003 10:22:57 -0400
By:                           Robert Gelfeld,SSMC3 4230,7133295 179
					Last edited: H. Garcia Tue Aug 19 09:52:09 EDT 2008

Source: 4 CD-ROMS contain documentation on data protocols, quality control, and data formats

MEDAR/MEDATLAS II
Mediterranean Data Archaeology and Rescue
(MAS3-CT98-0174 & ERBIC20-CT98-0103)
Final report for the period
01/01/1998 to 31/12/2001
Project Report #6
Rap. Int. IFREMER/TMSI/IDM/SISMER/SIS/02-012

Each participant, who represents the National Co-ordinator for International Oceanographic 
Data and Information Exchange (IODE) at the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) 
of UNESCO, compiled and safeguarded copies of the data sets dispersed in the scientific 
laboratories of his country, and reformat them at the common MEDATLAS format. These data sets 
have been checked for quality (QC) according to the common protocol based on the international 
IOC, ICES and EC/MAST recommendations, with automatic (objective) and visual (subjective) checks.
The data management structure was distributed  between four Regional Data Centres (RDC) and 
one co-ordinating and Global Assembling Centre (GAC). Each National Oceanographic Data Centre 
(NODC) or Designated National Agencies (DNA) of the participating countries sent his data set 
to the corresponding RDC for regional expertise. The data gathered and checked for quality in 
the RDC, were afterwards sent to the GAC which finalise the last quality and duplicate checks. 
Finally a selection of all the "Good" data interpolated to pre-defined standard levels has been 
sent to the Analysis Centre (AC) for climatologies computation.