October 2012 Becky Seeley Clare Postlethwaite
Who are we? Open partnership Report directly to Marine Science Coordination Committee Sponsors
3 Key Roles Hub for UK Marine Data Marine Metadata Standard Marine Data Standard Easier data sharing
Hub for UK Marine Data Data Archive Centres British Geological Survey British Oceanographic Data Centre UK Hydrographic Office UK Met Office Data Archive for Seabed Species and Habitat Metadata Data
Marine Metadata Standard
Metadata Maestro Online ToolStand alone Tool What fields? Puts metadata into computer readable format (xml) Validate Metadata
Data Guidelines What fields? Field title Field format: Free text, Decimal, Controlled Vocabulary
Controlled Vocabularies Approved terms: e.g. Dissolved oxygen concentration Seawater oxygen concentration Oxygen concentration Concentration of oxygen {O2} per unit mass of the water body [dissolved phase]
Summary Network of Data Archive Centres Metadata and data standards that satisfy UK, European requirements Provide a suite of tools to aid data sharing