A Data Management System and Portal for Access to Ecological and Biogeochemical Ocean Data - BCO-DMO

生物和化学海洋学数据管理办公室（BCO-DMO）是为国家科学基金会生物和化学海洋学项目资助的私人项目服务的，是一个在科学研究过程中开发的海洋生物地球化学和生态数据和信息可以很容易地传播、保护和存储的设施。数据管理处还向研究科学家和其他人员提供必要的工具和系统，以便更有效地处理来自不同来源的海洋生物地球化学和生态数据。BCO-DMO数据管理系统由元数据数据库、分布式客户机-服务器数据系统和带有简单的基于文本和基于地图的用户界面的Web浏览器界面组成，这些用户界面提供对BCO-DMO存储库中可用信息和数据的访问。在提案期间，该办公室将管理来自个别科学调查人员和合作调查人员小组的现有和新的数据集，并将继续使这些数据集在线提供。该办公室将与主要调查人员和其他数据提供者就数据质量控制进行合作；维护严格定义的字段名称的库存和程序辞典；生成联邦机构要求的元数据目录交换格式记录；确保向国家数据中心提交数据；通过提供新的、在线的、基于网络的显示工具，支持和鼓励数据综合；促进不同数据入口之间的互操作性；促进区域、国家和国际数据和信息交流。智力优势：生物和化学海洋学数据管理办公室正在提供综合的化学、生物和物理数据收集，这些数据收集来自许多大型和中型项目以及单个项目。所提供的数据为科学研究人员提供了一个机会，无论他们居住在世界各地，都可以探索复杂和多方面的数据集，并与同事合作解决紧迫的环境问题，问题和挑战，这些问题和挑战随着气候变化的步伐加快而加剧。机遇和挑战在于将这些协调的、多样化的数据集整合起来，比单独使用任何一种方法更深入地了解海洋生态和生物地球化学系统的运作。随着对海洋过程的分析变得越来越复杂，多学科的整合也将变得更加复杂。BCO-DMO已成为信息交换的基本组成部分，没有它，现有和未来项目的目标就无法实现。更广泛的影响：由NSF OCE生物与化学项目资助的研究人员提供的BCO-DMO数据集是一个可通过BCO-DMO网站访问的公开资源。它支持综合和建模活动，为新的研究工作重用海洋学数据，为K-12和大学水平的教师/学生提供“真实数据”，以便在课堂上使用，并为政策相关问题提供决策支持的现场数据。BCO-DMO的外联活动通过参加国内和国际的社区培训课程和讲习班，帮助促进数据管理专业人员和研究人员之间的长期合作伙伴关系。我们对这些活动的参与还有助于通过促进协同但独立的研究之间的思想交流来减少社区障碍。开发可互操作数据存储库系统的一个关键组成部分是采用网络基础设施标准，以便在分布式数据系统之间交换数据和信息。在海洋学和信息学会议上交流知识是制定和采用标准的重要机制。由于我们致力于使用开源和基于标准的技术，BCO-DMO方法应该对其他学科有用。

The Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) was created to serve PIs funded by the NSF Biological and Chemical Oceanography Programs as a facility where marine biogeochemical and ecological data and information developed in the course of scientific research can easily be disseminated, protected, and stored on short and intermediate time-frames. The Data Management Office also provides research scientists and others with the tools and systems necessary to work with marine biogeochemical and ecological data from heterogeneous sources with increased efficacy. The BCO-DMO data management system is composed of a metadata database, the distributed client-server data system, and a Web browser interface with simple text-based and map-based user interfaces that provide access to the information and data available from the BCO-DMO repository. During the proposal period, the office will manage existing and new data sets from individual scientific investigators and collaborative groups of investigators, and will continue to make these available online. The office will work with principal investigators and other data contributors on data quality control; maintain an inventory and program thesaurus of strictly defined field names; generate metadata Directory Interchange Format records required by Federal agencies; ensure submission of data to national data centers; support and encourage data synthesis by providing new, online, web-based display tools; facilitate interoperability among different data portals; and facilitate regional, national, and international data and information exchange.Intellectual Merit: The Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office is providing integrated chemical, biological, and physical data collections from a number of large and intermediate programs, and individual projects. The data being served provide the scientific investigators with an opportunity to explore the complex and multifaceted datasets wherever they reside world-wide and to collaborate with colleagues in addressing pressing environmental questions, problems, and challenges that are exacerbated with the increasing pace of climate change. The opportunity and the challenge is to make the integration of these coordinated, and diverse data sets yield a deeper understanding of the workings of ocean ecological and biogeochemical systems than any single approach used alone. As the analysis of ocean processes becomes more and more sophisticated, multidisciplinary integration will also grow more complex. The BCO-DMO has become a fundamental component for information exchange without which the goals of existing and future programs cannot be met.Broader Impacts: The BCO-DMO collection of data sets contributed by researchers funded by NSF OCE Biology and Chemistry Programs is a publicly available resource accessible via the BCO-DMO website. It supports synthesis and modeling activities, reuse of oceanographic data for new research endeavors, availability of "real data" for teachers/students at K-12 and college level to use in their classes, and provides decision-support field data for policy-relevant issues. BCO-DMO outreach activities help to foster long-term collaborative partnerships between data management professionals and research investigators through participation in community training courses and workshops both National and International. Our participation in these activities also helps to reduce community barriers by fostering the sharing of ideas between synergistic but independent research. A key component in the development of interoperable data repository systems is adoption of cyberinfrastructure standards to enable exchange of data and information between distributed data systems. Exchange of knowledge at oceanographic and informatics meetings is an important mechanism by which standards development and adoption occurs. Because we are dedicated to the use of open-source and standards-based technologies, the BCO-DMO approach should prove useful to other disciplines.