Dave Martin Question #5

Answers to Dave Martin's fifth question:

• Do we agree with this rather bleak assessment?
  

• If so, how do our programs address these issues?
  

• What specific, identified additional efforts should be undertaken?

• Should Ocean.US host a community workshop to address specific issues within the above and, if so, who should come?

• What is missing in the present NOPP investments in VOD-HUB, OBIS, etc.?

  The link between the NVODS effort and OBIS is tenuous at best. We need help here. My guess is that the way to proceed would be for one or two key players in OBIS to meet with the NVODS core group to work out a strategy for cooperation. Ocean.US could broker such a meeting.

• How do we get beyond continuing rounds of hand-wringing and develop solutions to these issues?

• What is the proper role of science in developing solutions versus a more immediate "imposition" of standards/protocols/conventions, etc. achieved by obtaining rapid community consensus of what they should be?