eu/mast-mater database (1996-1999): a reference database of high quality multidisciplinary data...
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EU/MAST-MATER database (1996-1999):A reference database of high quality multidisciplinary data collected within the framework of a major international research project, in the Mediterranean Sea
Giorgetti, A.; Fichaut, M.; Iona, A.; Manca, B.; Maillard, C.; Balopoulos, E.
… The EU/MAST-MATER research project, aiming at studying “MAss Transfer and Ecosystem Response” of the Mediterranean Sea, has been a major multidisciplinary fieldwork. It was implemented during the period 1996-2000 and gathered 58 research groups from 10 EU Member States and 3 non-EU States. During the project implementation, a total of 108 oceanographic cruises (representing more than 1000 days of ship time) were carried out by 12 research vessels …
… A distributed data management structure, based on three regional data centres, was designed … … The project data management was supported by a Data Quality Expert Group (…) with the aim of supervising and reviewing data collection techniques and …
From: Maillard et al., J. Mar. Sys. 33-34 (2002), 523-538.
RDC W Basin RDC
AdriaticIonian
RDCE Basin
Animation Task
Quality Experts CommitteeDataManager
ProjectCo-ordinator
DATA MANAGEMENT STRUCTURE
RDC Eastern BasinEfstathios Balopoulos, Sissy Iona National Centre for Marine ResearchPO Box 71219013 Anavyssos (GREECE)Tel : +30 22910 76367Fax: +30 22910 76323Email: [email protected]
RDC Western BasinCatherine Maillard, Michele FichautSISMER, Centre IFREMER de Brest BP 70, 29280 Plouzané (FRANCE)Tel : +33 (0)2 98 22 42 79 Fax : +33 (0)2 98 22 46 44Email : [email protected]
SISMER HNODC
http://www.ifremer.fr/sismer/mater/ http://hnodc.ncmr.gr/programmes/mater/
RDC Adriatic/Ionian BasinBruno Manca, Alessandra GiorgettiIstituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e diGeofisica Sperimentale - OGSBorgo Grotta Gigante 42/c34010 Sgonico, Trieste (ITALY)Tel : +39 40 2140201Fax : +39 40 2140266Email : [email protected]
http://doga.ogs.trieste.it/mater/
OGS
EXCHANGE FORMAT
The ASCII auto-descriptive MEDATLAS FORMAT is used with common codes based on the international IOC/GF3 and ICES standards.
QUALITY ASSURANCE
Data Quality Assurance is a high point of the MTP II-MATER project, at all stages of the data handling:
The data are collected and validated by the scientific laboratories according to internationally agreed standards Quality checks are performed at the regional data centres before the final archiving, in conformity with IOC and MAST requirements The results of these checks are transmitted to the scientists in charge of the data sets for cross-checking
CIRCULATION OF INFORMATION AND DATA
Within one month :Summary reports for cuises (ROSCOP), moorings and description of the main instruments/methods were made available on the Web
Within six month after the field experiment :Validated data sets corrected from instrumental errors and data reports including documentation on the data collection, processing and validation (EDMED) were sent for archiving to the Regional Data Centre
QC0 : Completeness of the information and format
QC1 : Automatic and visual checks on date and location
QC2 : Automatic and visual checks on the observations