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.
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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.
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
Roles and responsibilities - National
National Tide Gauge Network• Remote monitoring, data retrieval, processing
and quality control
NERC Marine data centre• One of six NERC data centres• Ingest and make data available• Deliver Inspire, EIR, open access & data.gov
obligations
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
Data Management Activities
• 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,