Submitting data to (and Submitting data to (and getting data from!) BODCgetting data from!) BODC

Adam Leadbetter

British Oceanographic Data Centre

Joseph Proudman Building6 Brownlow Street

Liverpool L3 5DA, UK

BODC – A little backgroundBODC – A little background

Submitting data to BODCSubmitting data to BODC

What BODC does with dataWhat BODC does with data

Data Tracking Archiving Original Data

Compiling Metadata

Data Restrictions

Documentation Check and audit

Reformatting

Archiving Final Data

Visual inspection

Data Distribution

BODC’s data holdingsBODC’s data holdings

Series & samples• 81,932 series• 407 underway “series”• 2,476,953 samples

• T, S, D: 670,194• Biology: 597,150• Nutrients: 405,497• Optical properties: 223,269• Dissolved gases: 209,556• Chemistry: 199,615

• 330 organisations

Usage of BODC’s data holdingsUsage of BODC’s data holdings

Requests 2009/10• 54,000• 645 published datasets (CD-ROMS etc…)

• 112,000 website visits • 238,000 web services

Searching BODC’s data holdingsSearching BODC’s data holdings

BODC’s delivery formatsBODC’s delivery formats

Serving data to other communitiesServing data to other communities

The future…The future…

Projects within BODC• Web delivery of samples data• Quick view plots of data• Publication of data with DOIs• File upload area