1. March 2015
Plymouth
Gaynor Evans

2. Who are we?
Open partnership Report directly to Marine Science Coordination Committee Sponsors
The Marine Science Co-ordination Committee (MSCC) is composed of senior representatives of the major marine science funding Departments, the Devolved Administrations, the key marine science providers and four independent members.  Established in 2008, in response to a House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Report, ‘Investigating the Oceans’, it reports directly to a group of Ministers, chaired by the UK Marine Science Minister. It is the successor body to the Inter-Agency Committee on Marine Science and Technology (IACMST).

3. +Sean Gaffney + Hannah Williams Who are we?
Core team based at BODC in Liverpool Metadata support provided by DASSH in Plymouth
+Sean Gaffney
+ Hannah Williams
Since Previous incarnation since 2005

4. Marine Metadata Standard
3 Key Roles
3 Key Roles
Hub for UK Marine Data
Marine Metadata Standard
Marine Data Standard
Easier data sharing

5. Metadata Data 7 Data Archive Centres Hub for UK Marine Data
The Archive for Marine Species and habitats Data - DASSH
Metadata
British Oceanographic Data Centre
British Geological Survey
UK Hydrographic Office
Archaeology Data Service
UK Met Office
Marine Scotland, Cefas, DASSH
Data
7 Data Archive Centres

6. Marine Metadata Standard

7. Marine Metadata Standard
Metadata Maestro
Online Tool
Stand alone Tool
What fields?
Puts metadata into computer readable format (xml)
Validate Metadata

8. Data Guidelines What fields? Field title
Field Title
MCO
Description
Recommended Controlled Vocabulary or Format
Examples
surveyName M
Title of the survey
Free text;
2004 CCW Menai Strait benthic monitoring survey
surveyAbstract
Brief description of the purpose of the survey and other types of measurements that were made for the survey.
Survey was the first in a series of 3 in 2010 whose specific aim was to identify sites suitable for further monitoring. Geophysical techniques were used in combination with grabs and cores to assess seabed type.
What fields?
Field title
Field format: Free text, Decimal, Controlled Vocabulary

9. Controlled Vocabularies
Approved terms: e.g. Dissolved oxygen concentration Seawater oxygen concentration Oxygen concentration
Concentration of oxygen {O2} per unit mass of the water body [dissolved phase]

10. Summary Network of Data Archive Centres
Metadata and data standards that satisfy UK, European requirements
Provide a suite of tools to aid data sharing

11. There’s data out there, but we can’t always see it