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AN: OS41A-0164    [Abstracts]
TI: An Introduction to the Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO- DMO)
AU: * Chandler, C
EM: cchandler@whoi.edu
AF: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department, Woods Hole, MA 02543, United States
AU: Glover, D
EM: dglover@whoi.edu
AF: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department, Woods Hole, MA 02543, United States
AU: Groman, R
EM: rgroman@whoi.edu
AF: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology Department, Woods Hole, MA 02543, United States
AU: Wiebe, P
EM: pwiebe@whoi.edu
AF: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology Department, Woods Hole, MA 02543, United States
AB: The BCO-DMO (http://www.bco-dmo.org) was created to serve PIs funded by the NSF Biological and Chemical Oceanography Sections as a facility where 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. The Data Management Office also strives to provide research scientists and others with the tools and systems necessary to work with marine biogeochemical and ecological data from heterogeneous sources with increased efficacy. To accomplish this, two data management offices (former- U.S. JGOFS and U.S. GLOBEC) have been united and enhanced to provide a venue for contribution of electronic data/metadata and other information for open distribution via the World Wide Web. The JGOFS/GLOBEC Client/Server distributed data management system software is used to serve data and information to every investigator, regardless of computing platform. In addition, Web services are provided for data discovery, and development has begun on a machine-to-machine application programming interface (API) to allow interoperability between Web-based data systems. The BCO-DMO will manage existing and new data sets from individual scientific investigators, collaborative groups of investigators, and data management offices of larger multi-institutional projects via any standard Web browser. The office will work with principal investigators on data quality control; maintain an inventory and program thesaurus of strictly defined field names; generate metadata (e.g. Directory Interchange Format (DIF) ) records required by Federal agencies; ensure submission of data to national data centers; support and encourage data synthesis by providing new, online, Web-based display tools; facilitate interoperability among different data portals; and facilitate regional, national, and international data and information exchange.
UR: http://www.bco-dmo.org
DE: 4200 OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL
DE: 4800 OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL (0460)
SC: Ocean Sciences [OS]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting