NC Data Service

数据的收集、管理和利用是现代环境科学的组成部分。国家环境研究中心与数据相关的政策涵盖了国家环境研究中心资助途径和环境科学分支的各个方面。执行这些政策的一个关键部分需要国家环境研究中心资助和管理五个环境数据中心：英国海洋数据中心(BODC)、环境数据分析中心(CEDA)、环境信息数据中心(EIDC)、国家地球科学数据中心(NDGC)和极地数据中心(PDC)。这项提议由BODC、CEDA、EIDC、PDC和NGDC组成的联合体提出，并提出了2018-2023年期间数据中心的运营和管理计划。该提案解释了每个数据中心将如何提供核心数据管理。这些核心职能使NERC能够履行其数据政策，其主要目标是确保个人、政府、企业和其他组织继续获得具有长期研究、教学价值的环境数据，并为公共利益进行更广泛的开发。每个数据中心内的专业知识和领域专业知识确保了NERC的所有环境数据都有一个值得信赖的存储库/访问点。每个数据中心与其相关研究界的密切关系有许多好处。举例来说，这项建议有助尽量收集有关数据，并让数据中心的员工能更容易地与环境科学界接触，并公布良好的数据管理计划和实务。该建议亦首次解释如何在所有五个数据中心进行协调和管理。虽然每个数据中心仍将负责为其特定的环境科学分支学科提供服务，但计划的交付和管理将得到协调，以便数据中心能够向NERC集体报告。除了核心功能外，提案的第二个主要部分是加强数据中心之间的整合/协调，并支持和提供服务Dodona(NERC在向新用户和社区传播环境数据开发方面的新举措)。加强数据中心之间的协调将有助于更多地分享最佳做法和使用共同工具，以改进数据质量和可取性。这将主要用于提供必要的基础系统、标准和词汇表，以增加将NERC的各种数据集结合起来以解决最终用户问题的可能性。

The collection, management and exploitation of data is an integral part of modern environmental science. NERC's policies associated with data span all aspects of NERC's funding routes and branches of environmental science. A key part of the implementation of these policies requires NERC to fund and manage five environmental data centres: the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC), the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA), the Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC), the National Geoscience Data Centre (NDGC) and the Polar Data Centre (PDC).This proposal is presented by a consortium of BODC, CEDA, EIDC, PDC and NGDC and presents a plan for operation and management of the data centres over the period 2018-2023. The proposal explains how each data centre will to deliver core data management. These core functions enable NERC to fulfil its data policy with the primary aim of ensuring the continuing availability of environmental data of long-term value for research, teaching, and for wider exploitation for the public good, by individuals, government, business and other organisations. The specialised knowledge and domain expertise within each data centre ensures there is a trusted repository/access point for all of NERC's environmental data. The close relationship that each data centre has with its relevant research community has a number of benefits. For example, it helps maximises the acquisition of relevant data and also allows data centre staff to easily engage with the environmental science community and promulgate good data management planning and practices.The proposal also explains, for the first time, how coordination and management will be arranged across all five data centres. Whilst each data centre will remain responsible for the services to its particular sub-discipline of environmental science, the delivery and management of the programme will be harmonised so that the data centres will be able to report collectively to NERC.In addition to the core functions, a second major strand of the proposal is to increase the integration/harmonisation between data centres and to support and provide services to Dodona (NERC's new initiative in spreading the exploitation of environmental data to new users and communities). Increased harmonization between the data centres will enable more sharing of best practise and use of common tools to improve both data quality and accessibility.There is also a plan set out for capital investment in the data centres. This will predominantly be used to provide the underpinning systems, standards and vocabularies needed to increase the potential for combining NERC's diverse data sets to order to address end users' problems.