An Introduction to the Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)

1. An Introduction to the Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) Cyndy Chandler BCO-DMOWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution8 September 2007GEOTRACES Data-Model Synergy Workshop Delmenhorst, Germany 1 of 13

2. GEOTRACES has been identified as a project that will generate data and results of interest to the scientific community served by the Ocean Carbon & Biogeochemistry Office 2 of 13

3. The Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) The BCO-DMO was initially created in late 2006 to serve PIs funded by the US 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 in the US. 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. 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) 3 of 13

4. The Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) • 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) U.S. JGOFS 4 of 13

5. The relationship of BCO-DMO to existing and proposed entities. The 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. U.S. GEOTRACES U.S. SOLAS 5 of 13

6. 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) The data collection generated by a research project is a valuable component of its legacy. 6 of 13

7. Important Concepts • it’s all data ! • decide what metadata is important to support GEOTRACES science • store metadata in a database that will enable custom generated lists of selected information, in a variety of formats, and be compatible with various standards …The metadata database will also support data discovery through a robust search interface. 7 of 13

8. Challenges • heterogeneity of results . . .both data type and content type • model results . . .what to preserve ? • description • input • code • results • management of full set of results and design of single interface that provides access to all result types 8 of 13

9. Data Inventory • a list of all expected results from a sampling program (cruise) that includes PI/co-PI names and brief description of expected measurements • for example: • PIname: Robert Anderson • co-PI: none • Measurement: Radionuclide data from bottle samples including:temperature, salinity, thorium-232, thorium-230, protactinium-231 and beryllium-10 9 of 13

10. Metadata • project, people and dataset profiles • for example a dataset profile contributed with each data set includes:PI name(s)Affiliation when data collected (e.g. Institution)dataset description:Particulate Organic Matter (POC and PON)project: GEOTRACESplatform type (e.g. ship, mooring, satellite)deployment (e.g. cruise ID) 10 of 13

11. Sampling Event Log • one event log for each cruise a comprehensive list of uniquely numbered sampling events, including:event number, start and end date and time (in GMT/UTC), time zone, latitude and longitude [decimal degrees], sampling device name or code, person’s name responsible for sampling, station/cast number, commentsand optionally including: local date/time, project-specific information • GEOTRACES DMC has suggested tagging each sample with a unique sample ID that is a combination of cruise, station, cast and bottle number 11 of 13

12. GEOTRACES Data Managementas proposed in the GEOTRACES DMC report (Dec. 2005) • oversight of DM is responsibility of DMC and a Data Liaison Officer (located in IPO) reporting to SSC • the DLO would be responsible for maintaining lists of GEOTRACES cruises (and contributing projects) and data sets from participating national programs • details of BCO-DMO support for US GEOTRACES data management should be worked out in the near future Intercalibration Cruises: present an opportunity to establish best practices for sampling and analytical protocols and also metadata essential to support GEOTRACES science themes 12 of 13

13. Web Resources BCO-DMO http://www.bco-dmo.org US GLOBEC http://globec.whoi.edu US JGOFS http://usjgofs.whoi.eduhttp://ijgofs.whoi.edu OCB DMO http://ocb.whoi.edu US OCB http://us-ocb.org Thank you ! 13 of 13

14. Questions ? • Anyone from GEOTRACES attending? • 17-21 September 2007: Shanghai, ChinaIMBER / LOICZ Continental Margins Open Science Conference • Abstract submission is closed but registration is still open. https://www.confmanager.com/main.cfm?cid=792 • Session 1 Ocean-Shelf Biogeochemical Exchanges Session 2 Continental Shelf Biogeochemistry and Couplings with Benthic Systems Session 3 Continental Shelf Carbon in a High CO2 World Session 4 Continental Shelf Ecosystems from High to Low LatitudesSession 5 Integrated Observations and Modeling: Visions and Reality Session 6 Eutrophication and Oligotrophication in Coastal Systems Session 7 Low Oxygen on Continental ShelvesSession 8 Sustainable Use of Continental Shelf Resources 14 of 13

15. IMBER / LOICZ Session 5 • Session 5) Integrated Observations and Modeling: Visions and RealityFocus: Long time series, remote sensing, and observation systems.  New approaches for on-line and synoptic monitoring.  Assimilation of these data in multi-dimensional, coupled physical-biological models that address continental shelf processes, cross-shelf exchanges, and shelf break dynamics. Ecosystem models in pursuit of better understanding of human-induced stresses, which compromise biodiversity, ecosystem stability and biogeochemical processes, are sought. 15 of 13

16. Questions ?? • What are the key components of data systems that support the modeling effort ? • robust metadata – e.g. sufficient for integrationincluding precision, accuracy, limits of detection • data set sub-setting • download capability • user-selectable formats 16 of 13

17. Technical Details of BCO-DMO Data Management SystemGoals • Generate readily accessible data resource of high quality data (including robust metadata) • Maximize data system interoperability • BCO-DMO is based at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution • Web access: http://www.bco-dmo.org 17 of 13

18. Technical Details of BCO-DMO Data Management SystemMetadata profiles and lists • research projects identified as being GEOTRACES core projects and related • sampling programs (cruises, moorings/sediment traps, lab experiments, remote sensing, observatories?) • people profiles (PIs, cruise participants responsible for sampling, data analysts, lab technicians) • data set profiles 18 of 13

19. Technical Details of BCO-DMO Data Management SystemCruise-specific example • O1: report, data set inventory, sampling logs, shipboard data • O2: basic hydrography (CTD/Niskin) • O3: data sets within 2 years • O4: data sets excluded from 2 year contribution target date • QC review done on contributed data • according to GEOTRACES standards • in collaboration with originating PI and staff • Data and metadata contributed and ingested into BCO-DMO r-DBMS 19 of 13

20. Technical Details of BCO-DMO Data Management SystemAccess to data and results Data access provided in several ways: • via any standard Web browser client user interface • through a GIS application (Open Source, OGC-compliant MapServer) • a directory listing from the data holdings catalog • custom search engine that facilitates data discovery • query against variety of fields: PI name, project name, geographic area, temporal range, parameter name • Web Services (SOA) 20 of 13

21. Technical Details of BCO-DMO Data Management SystemCapabilities • sample distribution maps (lat/lon station location maps) • simple X/Y plots property/property • data sub-setting capability (joining, selection and projection) • download in variety of user-selectable formats • additional functionality to support community/contributing projects • generate Summary reports: • data set descriptions generated to comply with a variety of metadata content standards (ISO 19115, DIF (GCMD), EML, FGDC) • data reports on digital media (CD or DVD) • data catalog status reports (inventory) for Special Issue publications (if desired) • final data collection contributed to Data Archive Center (*WDC, or *ODC or Data Library) 21 of 13