October 2012Becky Seeley

Clare Postlethwaite

Who are we?

Open partnership

Report directly to Marine Science Coordination Committee

Sponsors

3 Key Roles

Hub for UK Marine Data

Marine Metadata Standard

Marine Data

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Easier data sharing

Hub for UK Marine Data

Data Archive Centres

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Metadata

Data

Marine Metadata Standard

Marine Metadata Standard

Metadata Maestro

Online Tool Stand 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

Summary

• Network of Data Archive Centres• Metadata and data standards that satisfy

UK, European requirements• Provide a suite of tools to aid data

sharing