Rolling Deck to Repository: Transforming the United States
Academic Fleet Into an Integrated Global Observing System
Suzanne M. Carbotte, Robert Arko, Vicki L. Ferrini, Stephen
P. Miller, Karen Stocks, Cyndy L. Chandler, Andrew R. Maffei, Shawn R. Smith, Mark A. Bourassa
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
Florida State University
UNOLSFleet
•Mobile platforms •Short term obs.•Global range•Ocean exploration
Infrastructure for ocean sciences
OOI•~Stationary platforms •Long-term obs.•Regional/Local range
IODP•Sampling•Deep time
The Objective:Well-documented high-quality
publicly available data
• Support published literature• Enable global syntheses• Provide ground-truth for a variety of
scientific applications• Enable data reuse and new discovery• Make publicly-funded data available to
the public • Enable informed policy and decision
making
• Research cruises include multiple investigators and yield heterogeneous data sets• Data documentation difficult or sparse• Little routine QA/QC is conducted and has varied historically depending on operator priorities/capabilities• Data are not systematically archived at U.S. National Data Centers
The Challenge:
US NOAA National DCProgram/Disciplinary DC
US NOAA National DCProgram/Disciplinary DCShipsShips R2RR2R
Evolution of theData Preservation Pipeline
US NOAA National DCProgram / Disciplinary DC
US NOAA National DCProgram / Disciplinary DCShipsShips Science PartyScience Party??
Shipboard Data
• Operational/Underway (e.g. bathymetry, MET, ADCP, subbottom etc)
• US National Facility (e.g. NDSF, NMSF, OBSIP)
• Science party instrumentation (e.g. current meter, sediment traps, chemical/physical probes etc)
Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R)Data Stewardship Plan
**Data will be distributed only after it is cleared of proprietary holds
R2R Deliverables & Services:5 Standard Products
1. Cruise Metadata Record
2. Scientific Sampling Event Log
3. Quality-controlled Ship Track
4. Real-time quality-controlled MET and TSG data
5. Operations Report (Formatted document containing standard products & appendices)
http://www.rvdata.us/about/products
R2R Deliverables & ServicesData Documentation and Delivery
• Data Catalog (dataset, and file level metadata)• Routine and consistent data delivery to NDCs• Routine and consistent data accessibility to DACs• Quality Assessment
• Feedback to Operators• Quality Assessment Certificates (QACs)• Describe data delivered to NDCs
http://www.rvdata.us/about/products
• Training Guides – publish community best practices for data acquisition & reduction
• Tools – make available software tools for QA that can be used by operators and/or scientists
• Data Recovery Service – original field data distribution
• Clearance Service – support preparation of data to foreign nations
Additional R2R Services
Cruise Catalog
Basic cruise metadata for >1,300 cruises from 13
ships http://www.rvdata.us/
catalog/
Complete Data Inventory
Vessel profile - device inventory
Data Delivery to US National Data
Centers
http://www.rvdata.us/catalog/Healy
http://www.rvdata.us/about/eventlog
Alex Dorsk (WHOI)
• Prototype Application
• Community Input (Operators, Scientists, Data Managers)
• Tested on several cruises
• Implementation plan
•operator installs application onboard•science party maintains log underway•results loaded in rvdata.us database for dissemination
Scientific Sampling Event Log
The Academic Fleet as anIntegrated Global Observing System
•Routine long-term preservation of shipboard data and documentation of ship-based scientific sampling•Complement existing data management efforts• Provide rapid QA feedback to Operators• Improve data accessibility through routine data submission to NDCs• Improve data re-use via routine QA
http://www.rvdata.us/
UNOLSFleet
OOI
IODP
#32 R2R: Managing Dataflow from a National Fleet of Research Vessels (Clark et al.) (POSTER)
#28 Shipboard Data Stewardship: From Ship to Shore to Archive (Chandler et al.) (POSTER)
#25 The Shipboard Automated Meteorological and Oceanographic System (SAMOS) Initiative (Smith et al.) (POSTER)
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