Clarify the meaning of Territory

[MKrieger29]

Details

For now, OceanOPS delivers the operating country of the platform for OSCAR.
We have understood that this should rather be the country in which the platform is operating.
Can you please clarify?

The first solution suits better the marine platforms otherwise we would enter into sensitive issues defining in which EEZ the platform is operating (e.g., disputes). That said, technically we could do it.

Anyway, we still note an issue in the case of European funded and operated platforms (e.g., https://oscar.wmo.int/surface/#/search/station/stationReportDetails/0-22000-0-6900947)

Territory is written "inapplicable", while it should be "European Union".
The platform is effectively operated and owned by the European Research Infrastructure Euro-Argo.

In addition, we envision as well future platforms operated by OceanOPS and then the country would be United Nations. To be discussed.

Requestor

@MKrieger29 and OceanOps

[amilan17]

Definitions of territory in the standards, documentation and implementations

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from WMO-No. 1192:
https://library.wmo.int/idurl/4/55626

• 3 Station/ platform
  • 3-01, Region of origin of data, WMO Region, C*
  • 3-02, Territory of origin of data, Country or territory name of the location of the observation, C*

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from the UML of the schema:
https://schemas.wmo.int/wmdr/1.0/html/

A Territory is a territory specification accompanied by a timestamp indicating the time from which that territory is considered to be valid. If known, an end time may also be provided. In WIGOS, an ObservingFacility may carry multiple territories which are valid over different consecutive periods of time. If only a single territory is specified, the timestamp is optional.

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from the documentation in the schemas directory
https://schemas.wmo.int/wmdr/1.0/documentation/WMDR_ModelAndSchemaSpecification.pdf

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UI for new record in OSCAR/Surface:

[amilan17]

Definitions of ownership in the standards, documentation and implementations

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from WMO-No. 1192:
https://library.wmo.int/idurl/4/55626

• 9 Ownership and data policy
  • 9-01, Supervising organization, Name of organization who owns the observation, M
  • 9-02, Data policy/use constraints, Details relating to the use and limitations surrounding data imposed by the supervising organization, M*

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from documentation
https://schemas.wmo.int/wmdr/1.0/documentation/WMDR_ModelAndSchemaSpecification.pdf

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UI for new record in OSCAR/Surface

[amilan17]

OSCAR/Surface search display result of territory and supervising organization

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