Digital library of open access learning materials about information management in OceanTeacher.

Study materials about data and information management that are freely accessible through the Internet and the WWW are made available in an organized way in a digital library through the OceanTeacher system at http://www.oceanteacher.org/ or http://ioc.unesco.org/oceanteacher/ or on optical disc. It is important that as many as possible full documents are included, because many users work in developing countries without broadband Internet access. More specifically, most attention is spent to study materials on data and information management to support marine science or oceanography, as the whole system is created in the framework of UNESCO - International Oceanographic Commission (IOC) - International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) network. This contribution offers an overview of the framework, the evolution of the system, the state of the art of the contents and structure, the plans for the future, as well as the challenges and bottlenecks.