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Talk outline
• BGS: a data archive centre
• Data holdings
• Database
• Marine Data Management Handbook
• Requesting marine data form BGS
• Archiving marine data with BGS
• GeoSeas
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Marine Data Holdings
• Marine geological and geophysical data
• Gravity, magnetic, seismic, sonar and bathymetry
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Marine Data Holdings - Samples
• Geological samples
• Grab samples (sea bed sample)
• Gravity cores
• Vibrocores
• Rock-drill cores (max 6m)
• Borehole cores (max 240m)
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Marine Data Holdings – other sources
• Datasets from other organisations
• industry
• other government departments
• universities
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Coastal and Marine database
• ORACLE 10g relational database
• 30 tables
• 20 dictionary tables
• 12 query layer objects
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Coastal and Marine database
Cruise tables
Geophysical lines
Survey station table
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Marine Data Holdings
• Coastal and Marine database holds metadata for
100, 000 sample stations
300 000 line kms of geophysics
5000 site survey reports
• Results from analyses, processing, interpretation
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Marine Data Holdings
• Coastal and Marine database holds metadata for
100, 000 sample stations
300 000 line kms of geophysics
5000 site survey reports
• Results from analyses, processing, interpretation
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Marine Data Holdings
• Coastal and Marine database holds metadata for
100, 000 sample stations
300 000 line kms of geophysics
5000 site survey reports
• Results from analyses, processing, interpretation
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Marine Data Holdings
• Coastal and Marine database holds metadata for
100, 000 sample stations
300 000 line kms of geophysics
5000 site survey reports
• Results from analyses, processing, interpretation
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Marine Survey Data Handbook
• Management of marine geological and geophysical data
• 4 sections
• Guidelines - general guidelines for data management of survey data
• Specification – specifications for the management of each type of data
• Templates – standardised log sheets and report layouts
• Enclosures – procedure and quick reference sheets for specific aspects of survey data collection &
management
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Available to download at:
http://www.bgs.ac.uk/downloads/browse.cfm?sec=1&cat=112
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Archiving marine data with BGS
• Data must be supplied in a recognised exchange format
• Be in a format appropriate for the data type
• Supplied on a modern type of media e.g. Exabyte tape)
• Older media is not acceptable e.g 9 track media
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GeoSeas
• Pan-European infrastructure for the management of marine and ocean geological and geophysical data
• EU Framework 7 project
• 29 organisations
• 16 Countries
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• United Kingdom
• France
• Netherlands
• Germany
• Spain
• Bulgaria
• Latvia
• Estonia
• Portugal
• Greece
• Ireland
• Italy
• Denmark
• Norway
• Poland
• Lithuania
• Belgium
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Objective of Geoseas
“ build and deploy a unified marine geoscientific data infrastructure within Europe”
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Geo-Seas
• Build and deploy a unified marine geoscientific data infrastructure within Europe
• Improve locating, accessing and delivering marine geological and geophysical data
• Interoperable with other data e.g. oceanographic data
• Provide middleware to locate, retrieve and use primary data in multidisciplinary combinations.
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Objectives of GeoSeas• Expand SeaDataNet infrastructure by including the
network of national geological surveys and selected geological research institutes
• Publish and maintain a common catalogue and index of available data, data products and services managed by European geological surveys and research institutes
• Harmonise quality standards and exchange formats to facilitate access and delivery of this data to user communities.
• Provide federated marine geological and geophysical data sets to the user community using middleware to access and deliver data via the internet