Data Management Katharine Woodard National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

Data ManagementKatharine Woodard

National Centers for Environmental Information(NCEI)

Others should be able to interpret the data no matter the time period (i.e. 5, 10, 75 years later; everything should be clear)

All variables should be defined

Verify that units (including standard units and time zones), location ids (latitude, longitude of stations), and other information are easily located

Think of other people reading your data

Problems usually arise, not with the quality of the scientific measurements or observations, but with the organization of the data

Examples include: omitted critical information (location, depth, date/time, etc.); inconsistencies within formats; untranslated codes; or "hidden" characters; incompatible record lengths; etc.

Problems

All of this is easy and quick!

Also easily forgotten about once busy on a project

Take the time to set up a spreadsheet prior to gathering data (or use a NODC template; http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/data/formats/netcdf/)

Look it over during data collection and after data collection has ceased

Common Sense

Data can be sent to NODC to be published in the National Archive

Can send via e-mail attachment to NODC.DataOfficer@noaa.gov or to me at katharine.woodard@noaa.gov

Can also FTP larger files or send them physically http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/submit/index.html#fragment-1 Be sure to e-mail NODC.DataOfficer@noaa.gov so they know to look

for your data

Use Send2NCEI (S2N) https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/s2n/

Sending Data to NODC

Once published, you will be notified

You can find your data by searching in: www.data.gov www.nodc.noaa.gov/Archive/Search NODC Geoportal

http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/geoportal

Finding Your Data

Questions?

NODC Template http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/data/formats/netcdf

NODC Submitting Data http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/submit/index.html

Send2NCEI https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/s2n/

E-mail addresses NODC.DataOfficer@noaa.gov

katharine.woodard@noaa.gov

Resources

Finding Data www.data.gov www.nodc.noaa.gov/Archive/Search http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/geoportal

Resources

Send2NCEI

Send2NCEI

Demo/Questions?