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An Introduction to the Biological and Chemical Oceanography

Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)

Peter H. WiebeBCO-DMO

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

27 September 2007US GLOBEC Pan-Synthesis Meeting,

Seattle, Washington

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The Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)

The Office is located at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

The Web-site is: http://www.bco-dmo.org

The Office is managed by:Robert Groman (rgroman@whoi.edu)Cyndy Chandler (cchandler@whoi.edu)David Glover (dglover@whoi.edu)Peter Wiebe (pwiebe@whoi.edu)

The BCO-DMO was initially created in late 2006 to serve PIs funded by the NSF Biological and Chemical Oceanography Sections. It has since been expanded to serve the data management needs of the Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry group of researchers. It is a location from which marine biogeochemical and ecological data and information developed in the course of scientific research can easily be disseminated, protected, and stored on short and intermediate time-frames.

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The BCO-DMO is a combination of the formerly independent data management offices for US GLOBEC and US JGOFS.

BCO-DMO will continue to manage the US JGOFS and US GLOBEC data collections as well as data from new programs, including programs associated with the OCB DMO (CARIACO, EDDIES, MedFlux, SOFeX, VERTIGO).

The Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)

U.S. JGOFS

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U.S. JGOFSThe BCO-DMO data system will be designed to be interoperable with other data systems to facilitate discovery of and access to ocean science data and supporting documentation.

GEOTRACES U.S. SOLAS

IMBER

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JGOFS/GLOBEC Data Management System

Support for investigators at geographically different sites

Client support for most (all?) computing platforms (PC, Macintosh, Unix, Linux) – Web based, using standard browsers

Distributed data servers Data contributor directly controls data Always up to date Easier to grow computing resources But can also use a central facility if one wishes

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Guiding Principles of Data Management“a stewardship philosophy”

Quality assurance of data.

Treat all information as data.

Data that lacks sufficient metadata has limited value beyond the research program for which it was collected.

Metadata should include sufficient information to support discovery, value assessment and accurate secondary use (re-use of data).

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Interoperability Features

Open Geospatial Consortium standards are followed

Web Mapping Service (WMS) is supported

Web Feature Service (WFS) is supported

OBIS/DiGIR interface will be available by implementing and supporting basic SQL commands within the JGOFS/GLOBEC data management software

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GLOBEC Data Policy

Data are the intellectual property of the collecting investigators.

The time and effort committed to the collection of a data set entitles the investigator team to the benefits of it.

Publication of results derived directly from the data is the privilege and responsibility of the investigators who collected the data.

The Data Management Office can remove from the display any sensitive fields.

U.S. GLOBEC Data Policy Report Number 10, February 1994

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GLOBEC Data Policy

The data are intended for scholarly use by the academic and scientific communities, industry, and management, with the express understanding that any such use will properly acknowledge the originating investigator.

Use or reproduction of any data or images for any commercial purpose is prohibited without prior written permission from the Data Management Office.

U.S. GLOBEC Data Policy Report Number 10, February 1994

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GLOBEC Data Policy

Any person making substantial use of a data set must communicate with the investigators who acquired the data prior to publication and anticipate that the data collectors may expect to be co-authors of the published results. This extends to model results and to data organized for retrospective studies.

U.S. GLOBEC Data Policy Report Number 10, February 1994

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GLOBEC Data Policy

Within three (3) months after collection, a detailed inventory of measurements made during the cruise or field season must be submitted to the U.S. GLOBEC DMO by the chief scientist of the experiment in cooperation with the participating principal investigators.

Measurements which do not involve manual analysis and which would be useful to the science community must be submitted by the principal investigator within six (6) months after collection.

All other measurements and any standard analyses of these measurements must be available to the community within one year after collection.

Investigators will either submit data to the Data Management Office or place it on-line as a U.S. GLOBEC distributed database.

U.S. GLOBEC Data Policy Report Number 10, February 1994

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http://globec.whoi.edu/

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Web Resources

BCO-DMO http://www.bco-dmo.org

US GLOBEC http://globec.whoi.edu

Thank you !

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