OBS-standards

Definition of marine seismology data and metadata standards, and possibly creation of documents for users

The goals are to:

• define standards (and propose new ones if needed)
• Help data providers to create standardized data and metadata
• Help users to understand and use marine seismology data
• include standards in new “Guidelines for specific datasets” within the StationXML and miniSEED documentation

We want to have a document or documents ready for validation/vote before the next FDSN meeting (September 2025 Lisbon)

The current structure is

• one document on standards
• a second document on useful, publically available software tools
• a third preambule.md document that holds motivation information (was in original documents, not ready to throw it out yet)
• A "References" directory holding old standards documents

The first two documents are initally based on the information in the "References" directory