FDSN Working Group II: Data Exchange

Chair: Javier Quinteros
Vice Chair: Philip Crotwell

The Working Group on data exchange started in 1992 as a follow up to the Working Group on data collection and exchange formats. The latter was chaired by Jim Scheimer (1986-1989) and Ray Buland (1989-1992) and focused on the definition of the Standard for the Exchange of Earthquake Data (SEED) format. SEED has since been accepted by all major broad-band networks. After this task was completed, it was decided to enlarge the scope of the group to general data exchange issues. Since 1992 major topics have been:

definition of data request managers (like autodrm)
definition and implementation of the Networked Data Center (NetDC) concept
coordination of data flow for the production of FDSN CD-ROMs containing event oriented data (event criteria and production schedule for data collection)
coordination of quality control procedures for FDSN data
compilation of a station book
further development of SEED

Working Group II Defined Formats

FDSN StationXML
FDSN SEED Format

Working Group II Meetings

Year	Location & Materials	Working Group Chair & Vice Chair
2023	Berlin, Germany MiniSEED3 Resources Legacy Data StationXML Reproducibility DAS Standards Controlled Vocabularies	Javier Quinteros Rob Casey (Vice Chair)
2021	Online, India Minutes Agenda and Presentation (Ahern) Metadata For Legacy Data (Strollo) Integration of GNSS data (Trabant) MiniSEED 3 Meeting Summary	Javier Quinteros Rob Casey (Vice Chair)
2019	Montreal, Canada Minutes Presentation	Javier Quinteros Rob Casey (Vice Chair)
2017	Kobe, Japan Report to FDSN General Assembly Meeting Summary	Reinoud Sleeman
2015	Prague, Czechia Minutes Presentation	Reinoud Sleeman
2009	Cape Town, South Africa Minutes	Bernard Dost

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