Submitting data to (and getting data from!) BODC Adam Leadbetter British Oceanographic Data Centre Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool L3 5DA, UK
BODC – A little background
Submitting data to BODC
What BODC does with data Data Tracking Archiving Original Data Compiling Metadata Data Restrictions Documentation Check and audit Reformatting Archiving Final Data Visual inspection Data Distribution
BODC’s data holdings Series & samples 81,932 series 407 underway “series” 2,476,953 samples T, S, D: 670,194 Biology: 597,150 Nutrients: 405,497 Optical properties: 223,269 Dissolved gases: 209,556 Chemistry: 199, organisations
Usage of BODC’s data holdings Requests 2009/10 54, published datasets (CD-ROMS etc…) 112,000 website visits 238,000 web services
Searching BODC’s data holdings
BODC’s delivery formats
Serving data to other communities
The future… Projects within BODC Web delivery of samples data Quick view plots of data Publication of data with DOIs File upload area