1. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office slide 1 of 19 CAMEO Data Management Bob Groman Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office 26 – 27 July 2010 CAMEO Science Steering Committee Meeting Woods Hole, MA USA

2. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office slide 2 of 19 Discussion Topics Why data management matters and the new paradigm Biology and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) – working with investigators from the beginning. Preserving data, modeling results and information

3. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office slide 3 of 19 Good data management practices have always been integral to the scientific method. Careful and deliberate record keeping Results reported and made publicly available: expectations have changed (a new research paradigm) Enabling reproducibility of results Enabling reuse of the data and results NSF is enforcing their data reporting policies Why data management matters

4. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office slide 4 of 19 New research paradigms... Science themes are trending toward  interdisciplinary  Basic-wide Research teams have changed  from single Pi to interdisciplinary, collaborative teams  boundaries being: funding agency, national, disciplinary Studies involving coupling of complex models  atmospheric and hydrologic  end-to-end food web... require access to data from many disciplines

5. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office slide 5 of 19 Some definitions … what do I mean by … Data Management End-to-end data management Proposal to preservation Having a plan (policy) from the beginning ► Data and metadata are recorded accurately, ► Data preservation (backups) ► Made accessible to others

6. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office slide 6 of 19 Metadata Metadata ~ “about the data” ; also, “about the model”. Information required to interpret the data and results and reuse them Metadata records capture the information required to answer the who, what, where, why, how and when questions that are asked about a dataset. It is important to know who collected, analyzed and contributed the data and where, when and how those data were acquired or generated and subsequently analyzed and processed.

7. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office slide 7 of 19 All data and information (D) necessary to reuse the data. Data (d) Metadata (m) D ≠ m + d

8. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office slide 8 of 19 Likelihood of Having All Necessary Information Probability of having all the necessary information to reuse data or a model is inversely proportional to the time they were collected or generated. (P ~1/t) So, collect metadata early and often!

9. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office slide 9 of 19 these data...... are incomplete and of little use to colleagues The dataset lacks sufficient metadata to enable efficient and accurate reuse. Presumably the data originator would decode Sample ‘DIL 10’ because they know it to be a proxy for where, when and how the data were collected.

10. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office slide 10 of 19 Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office BCO-DMO NSF funded project to provide short and medium term data management, including web based access, to all NSF funded projects from the biological, chemical oceanographic programs and the Office of Polar Programs Large NSF projects are expected to have their own data management offices – a person Web site: http://www.bco-dmo.org/http://www.bco-dmo.org/ Recognition of the importance of people in the process of making data and information available Peter Wiebe Dave Glover Cyndy Chandler Bob Groman Dicky Allison Steve Gegg Tobias Work

11. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office slide 11 of 19 BCO-DMO ‘Proposal to preservation’  Partner with investigators before, during and after project begins  Long-term parnership  Community building  Started in US JGOFS and US GLOBEC programs  Capture and record documentation (metadata) sufficient to support data reuse  Make high quality data and metadata available online  Collaborative development of metadata records  Better practice recommendations for management of ocean research data and modeling results  outreach to researchers and data managers  Ensure final archive of data and results in appropriate center (e.g. NODC); contribute to special repositories (CDIAC)

12. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office slide 12 of 19 BCO-DMO Home PageBCO-DMO Home Page (www.bco-dmo.org)

13. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office slide 13 of 19 Text Based Access

14. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office slide 14 of 19 Geospatial access

15. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office slide 15 of 19 Simple search by program and project

16. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office slide 16 of 19 New time series type of plot CARIACO Niskin Bottle Samples Southern Ocean Acoustic Backscatter EN331 CTD_CG OC341 zoo_square_meter Calanus finmarchicus Plotting Samples

17. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office slide 17 of 19 Research in oceanography proceeds along three major lines: field observation, field and laboratory experimentation, and modeling. Data management and informatics until now have been an after-thought. Efforts like ecosystem-based management requires the integration of oceanographic, biodiversity, fisheries, and other marine environmental data, as well as the development of analysis and assessment tools. Exponential increase in data sources and the proliferation and distributed nature of databases have created a fourth new and important line of marine research. Data management and informatics is now on par with the other lines of oceanographic research (Baker et al. 2008). FO EX MO Past EX FO MO DM&I Future Baker, D.N., C. E. Barton, W. K. Peterson, and P. Fox. 2008. Informatics and the 2007–2008 Electronic Geophysical Year. Eos. 89(48): 485-486.

18. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office slide 18 of 19 Takeaway message: Plan for data management from the beginning Establish expectations for PIs and Investigators – create a data policy For large programs, have a local data manager responsible and responsive to your investigators Sharing data and results early yields better science BCO-DMO provides access to high quality data BCO-DMO will work with CAMEO investigators, preferably from the beginning, to help make their results available to others

19. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office slide 19 of 19 Actually, no. It is the beginning.

20. Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office slide 20 of 19 Metadata database schema