Submitting data to (and Submitting data to (and getting data from!) BODCgetting data from!) BODC
Adam Leadbetter
British Oceanographic Data Centre
Joseph Proudman Building6 Brownlow Street
Liverpool L3 5DA, UK
What BODC does with dataWhat BODC does with data
Data Tracking Archiving Original Data
Compiling Metadata
Data Restrictions
Documentation Check and audit
Reformatting
Archiving Final Data
Visual inspection
Data Distribution
BODC’s data holdingsBODC’s data holdings
Series & samples• 81,932 series• 407 underway “series”• 2,476,953 samples
• T, S, D: 670,194• Biology: 597,150• Nutrients: 405,497• Optical properties: 223,269• Dissolved gases: 209,556• Chemistry: 199,615
• 330 organisations
Usage of BODC’s data holdingsUsage of BODC’s data holdings
Requests 2009/10• 54,000• 645 published datasets (CD-ROMS etc…)
• 112,000 website visits • 238,000 web services