(Oceanography Society, 2010-09)
Glover, David M.; Wiebe, Peter H.; Chandler, Cynthia L.; Levitus, Sydney
Over the last 50 years, the Intergovernmental
Oceanographic Commission
(IOC) has had a profound influence
upon the willingness of United Nations
Member States to share and provide
access to their international and interdisciplinary
oceanographic data. (For an
early history and review of IOC achievements,
see Roll, 1979.) Ocean science
over the last half century has been transformed
from a predominately modular,
single-disciplinary, and individualistic
science into a national and multinational
interdisciplinary enterprise (Briscoe,
2008; Powell, 2008). The transformation
began slowly, but as computing
power increased, the pace accelerated,
and along with these alterations came
shifts in cultural practices regarding the
sharing of data.
