What is BODC?

National facility concerned with looking after and distributing

marine data

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 - National

National Tide Gauge Network• Remote monitoring, data retrieval, processing

and quality control

NERC Marine data centre• One of 7 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

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

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, documentation

(instrumentation, techniques, etc.)

• Audit• Banking

· Final version to a secure location· Accessible via web software

Overall aim• To manage & secure marine data for the long-term through the use of stable

& maintained data formats.

Providing access to data• Little point in data management unless the data

are used – 115,626 requests 2013/14 (cf. 72,205 in 2013/14 & 42,828 in 2005/06)

• ad-hoc requests, requests for published data sets and Web delivery of Tide Gauge, Wave, CTD and GEBCO Data serviced by BODC in 2013/14 - 16326 in 2013/14

• BODC’s CD-ROMs - successful media for project data 239 requests in 2013/14

• Online data inventories & catalogues

• Online data delivery systems

• BODC Web Services (2011/12)

142,331 visits to web sites

581,853 active page views

816,228 requests NERC’s vocab server

• Download interface software

• Near-real time data via sub-webs