presentatie - Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee

STARDUST
Spatial and Temporal Assessment of high
Resolution Depth profiles Using novel
Sampling Technologies
Part: Website & Data management
Dr Edward Vanden Berghe
Ward Appeltans, Klaas Deneudt
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee/Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
VLIZ tasks
STARDUST
•Following-up the project, translations, reporting and
information outreach partly via web site or workshops
and media
•Development and support database management,
creation and maintenance web site. URL:
(http://www.vliz.be/projects/stardust/index.html)
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee/Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Data management
•IMIS special collection ‘Stardust’
•Development of metadata database on project activities
•Development of an integrated Stardust database on the
actual data
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee/Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Metadata
To list and document all the available databases, ‘Discovery
metadata’ allow others to find datasets of interest. On-line
information on:
•General: name, date, version, quality
•Keywords (ASFA Thesaurus list)
•Methods: parameters, units, methods, matrix
•Description: synoptic, extensive
•Ownership: Data owner, sponsor, datacollector,
datamanager
•Geographic cover: sampling locations, geoterm
•Temporal cover: time span, frequence
•Literature, dataset links, project links, framework,
•Location of dataset, format, medium
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Meta data
To list and describe all the available databases:
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Integrated
Stardust database
To store the actual data gathered through sampling and
analysis and the metadata about the “when, where, what,
how, who, …’s “ of sampling, measurements, treatments,
analyses, ... ‘Descriptive metadata’
Data available on the web (restricted access). Easy
information retrieval: e.g. all data at a certain station, all
data of a certain parameter, all data at a certain time,
trend of a parameter at a certain locality, …
Increased efficiency of data interpretation, policy
making, … & no loss of data.
Structure depends on sort of data (afternoon meeting)
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee/Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee/Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
VLIZ Data
management
Tasks
State of the art:
•Web site is fully operational
•Metadata database is ready for use
•Database structure will be discussed with all partners
•Operational project database is due at mid 2004
•On-line web interface for both meta- and actual data is
due at end 2004
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee/Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)