Currently accepted ToRs are here. Under the new WMO structures, the ToRs are currently under review. The most current draft reads as follows:

Terms of Reference for the Expert Team on Data Management

(Status: Draft April 2020)

• Document issues with and coordinate the development and implementation of common data and metadata standards within GAW in alignment with WIS/WIGOS, and assist Contributing Networks with utilizing the WIGOS metadata standard;
• Advise the SAGs, WMO expert teams and partners, and the GAW initiatives’ steering committees on harmonizing data management; enabling F.A.I.R. data principles (findable, accessible, interoperable, re-usable) in support of plug and play capability (data formats and application program interfaces (APIs) of GAW data;.
• Collect and provide information on near-real-time NRT (within 24h of observation) data transmission to station operators; Facilitate timely submission of quality-controlled data for long-term archival in the respective GAW World Data Centres (DCs);
• Provide comprehensive and up-to-date guidance on the data and metadata submission process, revision and re-submission, including consideration of data policy, licences, provenance and data quality as well as consistency between the data and metadata;
• Monitor the data submission to the thematic GAW WDCs and provide consolidated annual statistics on data submission, distribution, and use to EPAC SSC;
• Document/identify issues and propose solutions in support of the further development of GAWSIS, as an integral component of OSCAR/Surface, and as the central catalogue of observing facilities and observations supporting GAW, linking the WDCs and Contributing Data Centres.
• Guide GAW WDCs on implementing WMO data policies, in providing user groups with free and open access to all data, complemented with access to innovative and mature data products, together with tools for QA, data analysis and research, following WIGOS policies in particular with regards to metadata documentation
• Guide GAW WDCs and archives of Contributing Data Centres on implementing new technologies that improve information management within GAW, as well as Contributing Networks, in-line with the evolution of WIS/WIGOS.