Institutions

Summary

Issues	GCMD	WOD/NODC
No. of Records	2818 (with very many non-marine entities)	669
Structure/Content	Unique codes for each project name consist of 3- to 35-letter acronym strings Acronym strings attempt in many cases to display the hierarchical "location" of the entity within its larger organization(s)	WOD codes are unique numerical project codes currently ranging from 4-1226 NODC codes are 2-character country code (see the ICES/IOC country codes), followed by 2-character specific institution identifier (only unique within that country)
Content Governance	GCMD Science Keyword Rules Procedures for Modification of the GCMD Keywords	Internal/informal

European Directory of Marine Organizations (EDMO). "This directory lists the organisation profiles of all (1000+) Data Holding Centres, Research Institutes, Monitoring Agencies and Research Vessel operators, that have an active role in one or more of the SeaDataNet Discovery services (EDMED - data sets, EDMERP - research projects, CSR - research cruises, EDIOS - observing stations/ systems, and CDI - index to data). Direct crosslinks are provided to their entries in these directories. The organisation entries are maintained online per country by the SeaDataNet partners." [Editor's Note: This is an implementation, and not a directly available vocabulary or code list, per se. The user accesses only 10 records at a time, from the entire controlled list. It is provided here as a superlative example of a catalog that could potentially be integrated into a global resource in support of ocean datasets documentation.]