65a891bc-dfed-4349-84ac-291ffb306eb6 ICES info@ices.dk pointOfContact 2025-05-15T22:41:10.714238Z ISO 19115-3 - SEXTANT 1.0 ICES 2017-11-14 creation ICES The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), is a global organization that develops science and advice to support the sustainable use of the oceans. ICES is a network of more than 5,000 scientists from over 690 marine institutes in 20 member countries and beyond. 1,500 scientists participate in our activities annually. ICES has a well-established Data Centre, which manages a number of large dataset collections related to the marine environment. The majority of data – covering the Northeast Atlantic, Baltic Sea, Greenland Sea, and Norwegian Sea – originate from national institutes that are part of the ICES network. The ICES Data Centre provides marine data services to ICES member countries, expert groups, world data centres, regional seas conventions (HELCOM and OSPAR), the European Environment Agency (EEA), Eurostat, and various other European projects and biodiversity portals. ICES aims to provide all data collections online and according to the ICES Data policy, which enables open access to all data that are do not fall under specific commercial or personal privacy concerns. ICES ICES info@ices.dk author ICES info@ices.dk publisher https://sextant.ifremer.fr/geonetwork/srv/api/records/b2f18ca3-2183-4843-b603-1996c72cf8a2/attachments/ICES.png Thèmes Sextant 2021-03-08 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.sextant-theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2018-07-27 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.httpinspireeceuropaeutheme-theme Integrators AtlantOS Element 2017-11-08 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.atlantos_element AtlantOS Essential Variables 2021-04-07 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.parameter.NVS.A05 Biology occurrence distribution biota Fisheries Fishing effort benthos plankton birds biodiversity fish invertebrates marine mammals phytoplankton zooplankton species contaminants biological effects ocean hydrography acoustic trawl net trawl underwater noise marine litter fish eggs ichthyoplankton fish stomach contents commercial catch VMS Logbook Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems Mission Atlantic - Resources 2021-05-04 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.mission-atlantic-resources Mission Atlantic - BODC Parameters 2021-05-04 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.mission-atlantic-bodc-parameters Mission Atlantic - Case Studies 2021-05-04 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.mission-atlantic-case-studies No condition applies No limitations on public access vector utf8 oceans -180 180 -90 90 http://www.ices.dk/marine-data/tools/Pages/quality-control.aspx WWW:LINK ICES Quality control checks ICES Quality control checks http://www.ices.dk/marine-data WWW:LINK ICES Marine Data ICES Marine Data http://gis.ices.dk/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/home WWW:LINK ICES data portal ICES data portal ICES is a receiver of Marine Data from national programmes and other marine institutes, therefore ICES is not the primary collection point of marine evidence that it holds and disseminates to the users of the data. Data are quality assured using internal and external programmes. ICES operates through a network of scientific expert and advisory groups. These groups, and the processes they feed into, act as a quality check on the marine evidence, both in terms of how the evidence was gathered and how the evidence has been subsequently treated. The groups, in cooperation with regional programmes under the Regional Sea Conventions, set standards and guidelines for the collection, transmission and analysis of these data. In addition, the ICES Secretariat provides supplementary quality assurance through its internal programmes related to the different types of marine data collection datasets, which is fedback to the participating national and regional programmes. These internal and external programmes and procedures have been established over a period of 30 or more years. They continue to evolve and strive to reflect the best available practices in the collection and treatment of marine data relevant to the ICES community. A catalogue of quality control checks is available on the ICES website.