Update of the BCO-DMO Project

	Presented at the
	U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank
	2008 Phase 4B
	Scientific InvestigatorsÕ Meeting
	23 June 2008
	Robert C. Groman

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"The BCO-DMO is a combination..."

	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).

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Guiding Principles of Data Management Òa stewardship philosophyÓ

	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).

Interoperability Features

	Open Geospatial Consortium standards are followed
	Web Mapping Service (WMS) is supported
	Web Feature Service (WFS) is supported
	OBIS/DiGIR interface will be available by implementing and supporting basic SQL commands within the  JGOFS/GLOBEC data management software

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BCO-DMO

	NSF funded 3 year project to provide short and medium term data management, including web based access, to all NSF funded projects from the biological and chemical oceanographic programs
	Large NSF projects are expected to have their own data management offices
	Web site: http://www.bco-dmo.org/

MapServer

	data and metadata interface
	provides access to geo-referenced scientific data
	presents distributed data sets in a unified way
	uses MapServer as the visualization application
	visualize data with on-the-fly graphics
	request custom subsets of variables in a variety of file formats
	access background reference material (metadata)
	compare variables from distributed sources

Web Resources

	BCO-DMO http://www.bco-dmo.org
	US GLOBEC  http://globec.whoi.edu

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