1. What is BODC? National facility concerned with looking after and distributing marine data Serve science, education and industry, as well as the wider public Our staff include research scientists and IT specialists Starting premise - data must be secure and readily usable in the long term without reference to the originator.

2. Roles and responsibilities - National National Tide Gauge Network Remote monitoring, data retrieval, processing and quality control NERC Marine data centre One of 7 NERC data centres Ingest and make data available Deliver Inspire, EIR, open access & data.gov obligations Project data management ‘End-to-end’ approach Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN) Hosts MEDIN core team to improve access and stewardship of marine data with 30 partners

3. Roles and responsibilities – International GEBCO Bathymetric Chart of the Ocean (GEBCO) Operates under IOC/IHO Host digital atlas manager and web site Compile and distribute the GEBCO digital bathymetry Global Sea Level Observing System (GLOSS) Conducted under JCOMM (WMO/IOC) Delayed mode data management Maintain GLOSS station handbook International Argo Near-real time processing Delayed-mode quality control Southern Ocean Regional Centre

4. Data Management Activities Quality control  Visualisation of data – “screening”  Anomalous data points marked (data unchanged)  Developing more complex automated systems Metadata assembly  Oracle tables  Link data to time, position, originator, restrictions, documentation (instrumentation, techniques, etc.) Audit Banking  Final version to a secure location  Accessible via web software Overall aim To manage & secure marine data for the long-term through the use of stable & maintained data formats.

5. Providing access to data Little point in data management unless the data are used – 115,626 requests 2013/14 (cf. 72,205 in 2013/14 & 42,828 in 2005/06) ad-hoc requests, requests for published data sets and Web delivery of Tide Gauge, Wave, CTD and GEBCO Data serviced by BODC in 2013/14 - 16326 in 2013/14 BODC’s CD-ROMs - successful media for project data 239 requests in 2013/14 Online data inventories & catalogues Online data delivery systems BODC Web Services (2011/12) 142,331 visits to web sites 581,853 active page views 816,228 requests NERC’s vocab server Download interface software Near-real time data via sub-webs