STARDUST Spatial and Temporal Assessment of high Resolution Depth profiles Using novel Sampling Technologies Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee/Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) Part: Website & Data management Dr Edward Vanden Berghe Ward Appeltans, Klaas Deneudt

VLIZ tasks STARDUST Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee/Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) Following-up the project, translations, reporting and information outreach partly via web site or workshops and media Development and support database management, creation and maintenance web site. URL: (

Data management Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee/Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) IMIS special collection ‘Stardust’IMIS Development of metadata database on project activities Development of an integrated Stardust database on the actual data

Metadata Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee/Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) Discovery metadata’ To list and document all the available databases, ‘Discovery metadata’ allow others to find datasets of interest. On-line information on: General: name, date, version, quality Keywords (ASFA Thesaurus list) Methods: parameters, units, methods, matrix Description: synoptic, extensive Ownership: Data owner, sponsor, datacollector, datamanager Geographic cover: sampling locations, geoterm Temporal cover: time span, frequence Literature, dataset links, project links, framework, Location of dataset, format, medium

Meta data Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee/Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) To list and describe all the available databases:

Integrated Stardust database Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee/Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) actual data Descriptive metadata’ To store the actual data gathered through sampling and analysis and the metadata about the “when, where, what, how, who, …’s “ of sampling, measurements, treatments, analyses,... ‘Descriptive metadata’ Data available on the web (restricted access). Easy information retrieval: e.g. all data at a certain station, all data of a certain parameter, all data at a certain time, trend of a parameter at a certain locality, … Increased efficiency of data interpretation, policy making, … & no loss of data. Structure depends on sort of data (afternoon meeting)

Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee/Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

VLIZ Data management Tasks Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee/Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) State of the art: Web site is fully operational Metadata database is ready for use Database structure will be discussed with all partners Operational project database is due at mid 2004 On-line web interface for both meta- and actual data is due at end 2004