World Data Center Panel Update, March 2007 David Clark Acting Secretary, WDC Panel eGY Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, USA March 13, 2007

WDC Panel, February 2007 Jean-Bernard Minster, Scripps Institution of Oceanography - Chair Hartmut Grassl, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology – Vice Chair David Clark, NOAA/NGDC – Acting Secretary Michael Chinnery, Treasurer Takashi Watanabe, Ibaraki University – Japan Representative Gennady Sobolev, Russian Academy of Sciences – Russia Representative SUN Honglie, Chinese Academy of Sciences – China Representative Ferris Webster, University of Delaware – US Representative

WDC Panel Meeting ICSU Secretariat, Paris, March Representatives from ICSU, GEO, CODATA, and Federation of Astronomical and Geophysical Data Analysis Services (FAGS) Agenda items include: –ICSU PAA SDI recommendations –Relationship between FAGS and WDC –WDC and GEO –CODATA Strategic Plan –Future of the WDC System

WDC Directors Conference Bremen, Germany, May Attendance by WDC Directors, and many others (ICSU, GEO, CODATA, National Data Center Directors, etc.) Agenda will include similar topics as the WDC Panel meeting but will also have splinter group sessions on: –Data quality and accessibility (open access) –Networking (infrastructures) –WDCs and GEOSS