1. © NERC All rights reserved British Geological Survey Helen Glaves

2. © NERC All rights reserved Talk outline BGS: a data archive centre Data holdings Database Marine Data Management Handbook Requesting marine data form BGS Archiving marine data with BGS GeoSeas

3. © NERC All rights reserved Marine Data Holdings Marine geological and geophysical data Gravity, magnetic, seismic, sonar and bathymetry

4. © NERC All rights reserved Seismic data Digital Boomer data collected in the Medway (2009)

5. © NERC All rights reserved Marine Data Holdings - Samples Geological samples Grab samples (sea bed sample) Gravity cores Vibrocores Rock-drill cores (max 6m) Borehole cores (max 240m)

6. © NERC All rights reserved Core samples

7. © NERC All rights reserved Marine Data Holdings – other sources Datasets from other organisations industry other government departments universities

8. © NERC All rights reserved Coastal and Marine database ORACLE 10g relational database 30 tables 20 dictionary tables 12 query layer objects

9. © NERC All rights reserved Coastal and Marine database Cruise tables Geophysical lines Survey station table

10. © NERC All rights reserved Marine Data Holdings Coastal and Marine database holds metadata for 100, 000 sample stations 300 000 line kms of geophysics 5000 site survey reports Results from analyses, processing, interpretation

11. © NERC All rights reserved Sample stations 100,000

12. © NERC All rights reserved Marine Data Holdings Coastal and Marine database holds metadata for 100, 000 sample stations 300 000 line kms of geophysics 5000 site survey reports Results from analyses, processing, interpretation

13. © NERC All rights reserved Geophysical tracks 300,000 line km

14. © NERC All rights reserved Marine Data Holdings Coastal and Marine database holds metadata for 100, 000 sample stations 300 000 line kms of geophysics 5000 site survey reports Results from analyses, processing, interpretation

15. © NERC All rights reserved Site survey reports 5,000

16. © NERC All rights reserved Marine Data Holdings Coastal and Marine database holds metadata for 100, 000 sample stations 300 000 line kms of geophysics 5000 site survey reports Results from analyses, processing, interpretation

17. © NERC All rights reserved Marine Survey Data Handbook Management of marine geological and geophysical data 4 sections Guidelines - general guidelines for data management of survey data Specification – specifications for the management of each type of data Templates – standardised log sheets and report layouts Enclosures – procedure and quick reference sheets for specific aspects of survey data collection & management

18. © NERC All rights reserved Available to download at: http://www.bgs.ac.uk/downloads/ browse.cfm?sec=1&cat=112

19. © NERC All rights reserved http://www.bgs.ac.uk/discoverymetadata/list.html Marine data requests

20. © NERC All rights reserved Marine Data Requests

21. © NERC All rights reserved DEAL data

22. © NERC All rights reserved Archiving marine data with BGS Data must be supplied in a recognised exchange format Be in a format appropriate for the data type Supplied on a modern type of media e.g. Exabyte tape) Older media is not acceptable e.g 9 track media

23. © NERC All rights reserved GeoSeas Pan-European infrastructure for the management of marine and ocean geological and geophysical data EU Framework 7 project 29 organisations 16 Countries

24. © NERC All rights reserved United Kingdom France Netherlands Germany Spain Bulgaria Latvia Estonia Portugal Greece Ireland Italy Denmark Norway Poland Lithuania Belgium

25. © NERC All rights reserved Objective of Geoseas “ build and deploy a unified marine geoscientific data infrastructure within Europe”

26. © NERC All rights reserved Geo-Seas Build and deploy a unified marine geoscientific data infrastructure within Europe Improve locating, accessing and delivering marine geological and geophysical data Interoperable with other data e.g. oceanographic data Provide middleware to locate, retrieve and use primary data in multidisciplinary combinations.

27. © NERC All rights reserved Objectives of GeoSeas Expand SeaDataNet infrastructure by including the network of national geological surveys and selected geological research institutes Publish and maintain a common catalogue and index of available data, data products and services managed by European geological surveys and research institutes Harmonise quality standards and exchange formats to facilitate access and delivery of this data to user communities. Provide federated marine geological and geophysical data sets to the user community using middleware to access and deliver data via the internet