Marine Data Management
From Ocean Teacher Library
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Marine data management is an extremely broad term, referring to many aspects of proper data operations within research, survey and operational oceanography (and closely allied subject areas). Within this broad category, data are:
- Stored/archived in safe environments
- Assigned to the care and monitoring of specific persons
- Managed for quality using a wide variety of analytical tools
- Cataloged and described
- Prepared for delivery to requesting scientists
- Reformatted as needed for specialized applications, such as models
- Synthesized with other data into high-level collections, such as atlases
- Published in various media
This division of OceanTeacher attempts to formalize the various aspects of marine data management into a typology, i.e. a hierarchical set of topics, that explains how these jobs are done and the fundamental concepts that underlie them.
Additional Resources
- The Principles of Good Data Management,(NERC). A general guide to the management of data and data management practices.
Subsections of this article
| Pagename | Short title | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
| General Marine Reference Shelf | General Marine Reference Shelf | General Reference Shelf | Resources describing or defining basic concepts and entitites mentioned throughout OceanTeacher, including additional educational opportunites in selected topics. |
| Glossary | Glossary | Glossary | none |
| Manipulation - Analysis - Display | Manipulation - Analysis - Display | Manipulation - Analysis - Display | none |
| Marine Data Infrastructure | Marine Data Infrastructure | Data Infrastructure | The information technology (and its necessary organizing structure) underlying the existence and content of marine data, including keys, specifications and standards needed to understand objectively the reported parameter values and their descriptions. |
| Marine Data Management Exercises | Marine Data Management Exercises | Data Roadmaps | none |
| Marine Data Quality Management | Marine Data Quality Management | Quality Management | The procedures, exercises and systems employed to insure the reliability and accuracy of marine data. QM is usually considered to consist of the two phases Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC). |
| Marine Data Transmission and Product Distribution Systems | Marine Data Transmission and Product Distribution Systems | Transmission and Distribution | Technology developed for global electronic publication of data, analysis products and model simulations of the marine domain |
| Marine Data and Products | Marine Data and Products | Data and Products | The activities and entities who make marine (and related) measurements to publish them in the form of datasets and/or derived products, and the publications, archives and online facilities where they can be found |
Information about this article
Short title: Marine Data Management
Description: none
Expertise level: beginner
Author: Murray.Brown
Approval status: approved
Approved by: Murray.Brown
Last change: 2010-3-24
Subsection of: none
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