Clare Postlethwaite Becky Seeley Esther Hughes Gaynor Evans March 2014 London
Schedule Welcome and outline to the day Introduction to MEDIN – 10:45Controlled vocabularies 10:45 – 11:00MEDIN Data Archive Centres Tea break – 11:30The Archive for Marine Species and Habitats Data 11:30 – 11:45 The British Oceanographic Data Centre 11:45 – 12:00 The Crown Estate 12:00 – 13:00MEDIN Data Guidelines (biodiversity) Lunch – 14:15MEDIN Data Guidelines (other) – 14:45 The MEDIN portal 14:45 – 15:45MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard 16.00Wrap up and feedback
Who are we? Open partnership Report directly to Marine Science Coordination Committee Sponsors
Who are we? Core team based at BODC in Liverpool Metadata support provided by DASSH in Plymouth
3 Key Roles Hub for UK Marine Data Marine Metadata Standard Marine Data Standard Easier data sharing
Hub for UK Marine Data 7 Data Archive Centres British Geological Survey British Oceanographic Data Centre UK Hydrographic Office UK Met Office The Archive for Marine Species and habitats Data - DASSH Metadata Data Archaeology Data Service
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
There’s data out there, but we can’t always see it