SeaDataNet

Its main goal is to enable the scientific community to access historical datasets owned by national data centers.

This project aims to provide a web service permitting to retrieve validated datasets (temperature, oxygen, salinity, nutrients, etc.)

Additional objectives consist in creating product with aggregated data such as climatological descriptions.

In term of harmonization SeaDataNet has chosen standards, vocabularies, tools that are used in the different NODC(National Oceanographic Data Center).

For example they use Ocean Data View to validate or visualize datasets, they also use DIVA software to perform objective analysis.