1. Data Management Katharine Woodard National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

2.  Others should be able to interpret the data no matter the time period (i.e. 5, 10, 75 years later; everything should be clear)  All variables should be defined  Verify that units (including standard units and time zones), location ids (latitude, longitude of stations), and other information are easily located Think of other people reading your data

3.  Problems usually arise, not with the quality of the scientific measurements or observations, but with the organization of the data  Examples include: omitted critical information (location, depth, date/time, etc.); inconsistencies within formats; untranslated codes; or "hidden" characters; incompatible record lengths; etc. Problems

6.  All of this is easy and quick!  Also easily forgotten about once busy on a project  Take the time to set up a spreadsheet prior to gathering data (or use a NODC template; http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/data/formats/netcdf/) http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/data/formats/netcdf/  Look it over during data collection and after data collection has ceased Common Sense

7.  Data can be sent to NODC to be published in the National Archive  Can send via e-mail attachment to NODC.DataOfficer@noaa.gov or to me at katharine.woodard@noaa.govNODC.DataOfficer@noaa.govkatharine.woodard@noaa.gov  Can also FTP larger files or send them physically  http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/submit/index.html#fragment-1 http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/submit/index.html#fragment-1  Be sure to e-mail NODC.DataOfficer@noaa.gov so they know to look for your dataNODC.DataOfficer@noaa.gov  Use Send2NCEI (S2N)  https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/s2n/ https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/s2n/ Sending Data to NODC

8.  Once published, you will be notified  You can find your data by searching in:  www.data.gov www.data.gov  www.nodc.noaa.gov/Archive/Search www.nodc.noaa.gov/Archive/Search  NODC Geoportal  http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/geoportal http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/geoportal Finding Your Data

9. Questions?

10.  NODC Template  http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/data/formats/netcdf http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/data/formats/netcdf  NODC Submitting Data  http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/submit/index.html http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/submit/index.html  Send2NCEI  https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/s2n/ https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/s2n/  E-mail addresses  NODC.DataOfficer@noaa.gov katharine.woodard@noaa.gov NODC.DataOfficer@noaa.govkatharine.woodard@noaa.gov Resources

11.  Finding Data  www.data.gov www.data.gov  www.nodc.noaa.gov/Archive/Search www.nodc.noaa.gov/Archive/Search  http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/geoportal http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/geoportal Resources

12. Send2NCEI

18. Demo/Questions?