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What is BODC?

What is BODC?. National facility concerned with looking after and distributing marine data Part of NOC National Marine Facilities. Serve science , education and industry , as well as the wider public Our staff include research scientists and IT specialists

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What is BODC?

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  1. What is BODC? National facility concerned with looking after and distributing marine data Part of NOC National Marine Facilities Serve science, education and industry, as well as the wider public Our staff include research scientists and IT specialists Starting premise - data must be secure and readily usable in the long term without reference to the originator.

  2. Roles and responsibilities – International • GEBCO Bathymetric Chart of the Ocean (GEBCO) • Operates under IOC/IHO • Host digital atlas manager and web site • Compile and distribute the GEBCO digital bathymetry • Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS) • Conducted under JCOMM (WMO/IOC) • Delayed mode data management • Maintain GLOSS station handbook • International Argo • Near-real time processing • Delayed-mode quality control • Southern Ocean Regional Centre

  3. Roles and responsibilities - National • NERC Marine data centre • One of six NERC data centres • Ingest and make data available • Deliver Inspire, EIR, open access & data.gov obligations • National Tide Gauge Network • Remote monitoring, data retrieval, processing and quality control • Project data management • ‘End-to-end’ approach • Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN) • Hosts MEDIN core team to improve access and stewardship of marine data with 30 partners

  4. Data Management Activities • Overall aim • To manage & secure marine data for the long-term through the use of stable & maintained data formats. • Quality control • Visualisation of data – “screening” • Anomalous data points marked (data unchanged) • Developing more complex automated systems • Metadata assembly • Oracle tables • Link data to time, position, originator, restrictions, documentation (instrumentation, techniques, etc.) • Audit • Banking • Final version to a secure location • Accessible via web software

  5. Little point in data management unless the data are used – 72,205 requests 2012/13 (cf. 42,828 in 2005/06 & 6,366 in 2001/02) Direct contact requests by telephone & email ~700 last year (cf. 217 2001/02) BODC’s CD-ROMs - successful media for project data ~150 last year (total 8244) Providing access to data • Online data inventories & catalogues • Online data delivery systems • BODC Web Services • Published Data Library • Download interface software • Near-real time data via sub-webs

  6. Users now expect to search for, view & receive data via the internet User friendly systems with GIS interfaces Data automatically updated every evening Moving to deliver all data this way > 88,000 “series” from 148 organisations web searchable & down load via “shopping basket” > 20,000 in projects soon > 2,500,000 discrete samples soon Allow project/organisation specific portals Online data delivery Will still support the “personal” request service

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