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New additions to the SIMORC database

7 March 2021

Early 2021 more data sets added to the SIMORC database.

New additions to the SIMORC database in 2020

1 January 2021

The SIMORC database has been expanded and end 2020 covers 12507 datasets.

New additions to the SIMORC database

2 September 2019

The SIMORC database has been expanded with more than 3000 extra data sets and now covers 10888 datasets.

New datasets added to the SIMORC database

13 September 2018

The SIMORC database has been expanded with another 85 new data sets and now covers 7736 datasets.

New entries in the SIMORC database.

30 April 2018

The SIMORC database has been expanded with another 116 new data sets and now covers 7651 datasets.

New datasets added to the SIMORC database

19 October 2017

The SIMORC database has been expanded with another 617 new data sets and now covers 7535 datasets.

New datasets added to the SIMORC database

20 December 2016

The SIMORC database has been expanded with another 415 new data sets and now covers 6918 datasets.

New entries in the SIMORC database

9 November 2016

The SIMORC database has been expanded with another 709 new data sets and now covers 6503 data sets.

New entries in the database.

10 April 2016

The SIMORC database has been expanded with another 466 new data sets and now covers 5794 data sets.

New entries in the SIMORC database.

21 December 2015

The SIMORC database has been expanded with 850 new data sets and now covers 5328 data sets.

New entries in the SIMORC database

20 September 2015

The SIMORC database has been expanded with 689 new data sets from Total and now covers 4478 data sets.

More data sets added to SIMORC

12 September 2014

The SIMORC database has been expanded and now covers 3630 data sets.

SIMORC database expanded with new entries

17 September 2013

The SIMORC database has been expanded with ca 150 new data sets from Total and BP concerning meteo and wave, currents and sea level data at a number of locations worldwide. More data sets are under pr

New entries in SIMORC database

18 April 2012

The SIMORC database has been expanded with ca 270 new data sets from Total and BP concerning meteo and wave, currents and sea level data at a number of locations worldwide. More data sets are under pr

SIMORC database extended again with new entries

18 November 2011

The SIMORC database has been expanded with ca 148 new data sets from Total and BP concerning meteo and wave, currents and sea level data at a number of locations worldwide. More data sets are under pr

New SIMORC Poster

2 February 2011

An up to date poster has been produced and can be downloaded, presenting the SIMORC Service.

Strategy paper 2010 on SIMORC Service published

28 December 2010

The SIMORC Strategy document details the functions of SIMORC, how decisions are made on new additional data sets, the benefi

New entries to SIMORC database

13 April 2010

The SIMORC database has been expanded with several hundreds of new data sets from Shell, Total and BP concerning meteo and wave, currents and sea level data at a number of locations wor

SIMORC website upgraded

15 March 2010

The SIMORC portal has been upgraded in look & feel. Moreover the metadata model has been harmonised with the CDI metadata format of the SeaDataNet infrastructure and the data discovery and access

Priviledged access for data providers

12 January 2009

The functionality of the SIMORC service has been expanded with priviledged access for data providers to their own data sets. This implies that staff from Shell, Total and BP have unrestricted access t

SIMORC Service agreement signed!

10 December 2008

The SIMORC Service contract has been signed by the first 3 oil & gas companies, Shell, Total and BP. The contract is organised as a Limited Interest Project (LIP) agreement in which OGP members

New SIMORC leaflet

1 March 2008

A second leaflet has been prepared and includes the latest developments of the operational SIMORC Service and its long term arrangement. It has been circulated at the Oceanology International 08 exhib

BP presents SIMORC

20 November 2007

BP included SIMORC in a presentation at the Royal Society in London 'Investigating the Oceans - how should UK marine science be organised?'

TOR and draft contract for SIMORC service arrangement

1 November 2007

To secure the long term operation of the SIMORC service a Terms of Reference and a final draft have been prepared for a service contract, that will be signed between OGP, representing OGP members, and

IODE finalises dedicated SIMORC Training curriculum

1 October 2007

IODE finalised the development of the dedicated SIMORC training curriculum and its inclusion in a new version of OceanTeacher (www.oceanteacher.org). It is

SIMORC Training curriculum under development by UNESCO-IODE

2 July 2007

As part of its training and education activities IODE is developing and incorporating a SIMORC training curriculum in the IODE OceanTeacher training tool.

OceanTeacher is a collection

SIMORC presented at Oceans ’07 conference

1 July 2007

MARIS presented a SIMORC paper and presentation at the Oceans 07 conference, that took place in June 2007 in Aberdeen, Scotland.

OGP Highlights newsletter features SIMORC

15 April 2007

OGP Highlights, the monthly newsletter of OGP, features a nice article about SIMORC in its April 2007 issue. You can download and read the Newsletter. 

International Workshop marks official launch of the SIMORC Service

29 March 2007

The SIMORC Service was officially inaugurated 28th March 2007 by dr Alan Edwards of the European Commission at the successful Workshop on the exchange and availability of ocean data and products.

Major expansion of the SIMORC database

15 February 2007

The SIMORC database has been expanded again, this time with ca. 500 new data sets, concerning meteo and wave, currents and sea level data at a number of locations worldwide. More data sets are under p

New entries to SIMORC database

17 January 2007

The SIMORC database has been expanded with ca. 100 new data sets from Shell, concerning meteo and wave, currents and sea level data at a number of locations worldwide. More data sets are under process

Register as a user to the SIMORC service!

9 October 2006

Scientific and academic organisations are invited to register to the SIMORC service and conclude a User Licence Agreement for their staff members for regular use and access to data sets. This Agree

The SIMORC service is now open

6 October 2006

After a period of testing and finetuning the SIMORC service has officially been launched, right after the OGP - JIP meeting. The SIMORC service provides an index metadatabase and a databa

EU has accepted the periodic activity report for 1st project year

5 September 2006

The SIMORC project started at the 1st June 2005 and a Report has been submitted to the EU concerning the activities and progress made in the 1st project year. Recently this report has been ful

SIMORC prototype under evaluation by project partners

26 July 2006

The SIMORC service consists of an index metadatabase and a database of actual Metocean data sets, that together are accessible through the Internet. The public index metadatabase features a geograp

Periodic activity report submitted to EU for 1st project year

26 July 2006

The SIMORC project started at the 1st June 2005 and recently a Report has been submitted to the EU concerning the activities and progress made in the 1st project year. The actual progress is considera

Next Coordination Group meeting planned for 4th - 5th October 2006

26 July 2006

The 6th meeting of the SIMORC Coordination Group will take place at the 4th - 5th October 2006 and a progress report will be presented to the Committee for Meteorology and Oceanograp

Next Coordination Group meeting planned for 27th June 2006 at BODC

24 May 2006

The next meeting of the SIMORC Coordination Group will take place at the 27th June 2006 and will mark the internal launch of the prototype of the SIMORC Service. This will then be tested by OGP mem

IOC-IODE Recommendation for SIMORC

9 May 2006

The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC) adopted a policy on oceanographic data exchange to promote and to facilitate a wide availability and access to oceanographic and marin

SIMORC User License Agreement formulated and established!

9 May 2006

After consulting with the SIMORC Advisory Board and considering a number of international data policies and licenses a draft was prepared for a SIMORC User License Agreement for scientific and educ

SIMORC leaflet available for downloading

25 March 2006

A first leaflet has been prepared for the SIMORC project and this has been circulated at the Oceanology International 06 exhibition. It is available in print via OGP and the SIMORC Project

Great progress with specifications

24 March 2006

At the 4th Coordination Group and OGP JIP Metocean Committee meetings 22nd - 23rd March 2006 great progress was presented. The following items are nearly finalized :

Number of active participants increasing

24 March 2006

The SIMORC project is organized as a Limited Interest Project by OGP. Interested OGP members from the Metocean Committee can participate in SIMORC and thus contribute their data sets to

Next Coordination Group planned 22nd - 23rd March 2006

26 January 2006

The next meeting of the SIMORC Coordination Group will take place at the 22nd March 2006 and a progress report will be presented at the 23rd March 2006 at the session of the Committee fo

Constructive meeting of SIMORC Advisory Board

23 December 2005

As part of exploring the user requirements and tuning the development of the SIMORC service a constructive meeting took place between the members of the Coordination Group and the Adviso

Next SIMORC meeting together with Advisory Board

20 September 2005

The 3rd meeting of the SIMORC Coordination Group will be combined with the 1st meeting of the SIMORC Advisory Board and is planned for 20th December 2005 at the IODE office in Ostend - B

SIMORC website launched!

31 August 2005

The SIMORC website has been launched at 1st September 2005 at the domains http://www.simorc.com and

Successful SIMORC meeting at JIP week in Paris

2 August 2005

A successful meeting of the SIMORC Coordination Group took place at 15 and 16 September 2005 in Paris - France. The meeting was combined with sessions at the Metocean JIP (=Joint Industry

SIMORC project started !

8 July 2005

The SIMORC project started at 1st June 2005 in agreement with the European Commission. SIMORC is short for System of Industry Metocean data for the Offshore and Research Communities. The