EDMED and EDIOS Roy Lowry, Karen Vickers (Technical) Lesley Rickards, Liz Bradshaw (Content) British Oceanographic Data Centre

European Directory of Marine Environmental Data (EDMED) “Discovery” metadata Comprehensive reference to marine data sets and collections in Europe Over 3300 data sets 700 data holding laboratories From 30 countries bordering European seas, and 2 international organisations On-line query & browse Simple or advanced query interface to specify a combination of search criteria

EDMED Status – June 2006 Number of Data Set Descriptions supplied by each Collating Centre

All Access database EDMEDs received during Sea-Search have been checked and loaded to the master database Work continuing with France, Ireland and Belgium (and Germany) for XML import and export; problems include use of uncontrolled vocabularies Current mechanisms for updating EDMED are: 1.Microsoft Access databases These have been distributed for new entries and updates except for newest partners Contact: Liz Bradshaw 2.XML files Further information available on request Contact: Karen Vickers EDMED Status – June 2006

European Directory of the Ocean-observing System (EDIOS) Initiative of the European Global Ocean Observing System (EuroGOOS) Regular repeated measurements On-line searchable directory of observing, measuring, and monitoring systems Over 10,000 observation entries Links to on-line real- time and archive data Tool to aid design of observing systems

EDIOS Status – June 2006 Number of observing sites by parameter group

EDIOS Status – June 2006 EDIOS project ran from 2001 – 2004 Input was via a mixture of Metadata Input Forms (MIFs), spreadsheets and database export files Five regional coordinators collected and collated input and passed to BODC Input supplied by 30 countries Front-end query and map interface designed by MARIS Content review underway Redesign of database underway

Problems with EDIOS Data model flawed (Observing Programmes should have at least one Data Series) and over-complicated relational database difficult to both populate and use Set up with its own local controlled vocabularies with weak content governance Population mechanism based on Word forms weakly mapped to the schema

Proposed Improvements to EDIOS Sort out the data model and simplify the schema Harmonise vocabularies with CDI, EDMED and the rest of the world. Working towards interoperability Enhance both technical and content governance of vocabularies in SeaDataNet Develop a sandbox-based on-line content entry and maintenance tool

What Are We Doing? Development specification under review Use this to produce a revised data model and relational schema document (June) Vocabulary harmonisation (July) Build new schema (August) Sort out issues with existing population (to end of year and beyond) Build population tools (August- September)