{"id":73,"date":"2017-06-01T13:45:08","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T11:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.socat.info\/?page_id=73"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:34:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:34:32","slug":"data-upload-and-quality-control","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/socat.info\/index.php\/data-upload-and-quality-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Submission and Quality Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For submitting data and for quality control of data, please, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/socat-remote.pmel.noaa.gov\/\">http:\/\/socat-remote.pmel.noaa.gov\/<\/a>. If you do not have an account please request one by sending a mail to <a href=\"mailto:oar.pmel.socat.support@noaa.gov\">oar.pmel.socat.support@noaa.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Metadata should always accompany data. The SOCAT metadata requirements are detailed in the <a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2024_SOCAT_QC_Cookbook_Update.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SOCAT cookbook (2024)<\/a>. Please, use this guidance for providing metadata information. SOCAT accepts metadata in any format (OME, pdf, etc). SOCAT encourages data providers to use the <a href=\"https:\/\/data.pmel.noaa.gov\/sdig\/socat\/MetadataEditor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online metadata editor<\/a> to generate the latest metadata format. Other options are available on the main <a href=\"http:\/\/socat-remote.pmel.noaa.gov\/\">SOCAT submission site<\/a>, which you can access once you have an account.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Upcoming deadlines<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Scheduled SOCATv2026 release: <strong>June 2026<\/strong><br \/>\nSubmission deadline for v2027:\u00a0<strong>15 January 2027<\/strong><br \/>\nQuality control deadline for v2027:\u00a0<strong>19 March 2027<\/strong><br \/>\nScheduled SOCATv2027 release:\u00a0<strong>June 2027<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Groups<\/h3>\n<p>SOCAT quality control is carried out by regional working groups with a global group for coordination. The groups for SOCAT v2026 can be found <a href=\"\/index.php\/groups-for-socat-v2026\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For submitting data and for quality control of data, please, go to http:\/\/socat-remote.pmel.noaa.gov\/. If you do not have an account please request one by sending a mail to oar.pmel.socat.support@noaa.gov. Metadata should always accompany data. The SOCAT metadata requirements are detailed in the SOCAT cookbook (2024). Please, use this guidance for providing metadata information. SOCAT accepts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/socat.info\/index.php\/data-upload-and-quality-control\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Data Submission and Quality Control&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-73","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socat.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socat.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socat.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socat.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socat.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":67,"href":"https:\/\/socat.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3659,"href":"https:\/\/socat.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions\/3659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socat.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}