Data management for the OMEXI Project: a case study
Lowry, R.K. (1998). Data management for the OMEXI Project: a case study, in: Bohle-Carbonell, M. (Ed.) Marine science and technology programme: experiences in project data management. pp. 99-168 In: Bohle-Carbonell, M. (Ed.) (1998). Marine science and technology programme: experiences in project data management. Office for Official Publications of the European Communities: Luxembourg. ISBN 92-828-2887-5. xii, 349 pp., more |
| Abstract | The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) was contracted in February 1994 to manage the field data collected during the EU Ocean Margin Exchange (OMEX) project. The OMEX I field programme consisted of 47 research cruises undertaken by 17 ships in the period April 1993 to December 1995. Scientists participating in the data collection came from laboratories in Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain and the UK. The data were highly multidisciplinary covering physical oceanography, marine biology, biogeochemistry, benthic measurements and air/sea interaction studies. Some 612 data sets were collected over the north west European continental shelf edge, primarily in the region of the Goban Spur, south of Porcupine Bank. The OMEX data management protocol was to first assemble a complete, integrated and documented database for use by the project's scientists and to then make the database available through electronic publication on CD-ROM. The techniques used were developed from those pioneered by BODC for the management of the data from the UK North Sea Project and the Biogeochemical Ocean Flux Study. The project was a success, bringing in some 95% of the data collected within the OMEX I field programme. This paper is a case study describing how this was achieved. |
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