European Directory of the Ocean-observing System (EDIOS)
BODC’s role
BODC is a data management centre for UK and international oceanographic data. We have long standing experience in assembling marine data sets. This expertise was used for our major role in the EDIOS project to assemble European regional data into the EDIOS database. This involved
- Extracting information from existing regional and global metadata bases
- Harmonising raw information, i.e. calibrating differences of units and scales
- Reformatting and converting the data into electronic format
The responsibility for collecting metadata was divided into five EDIOS Regional Metadata Sampling Centres (see Figure 1).
I. Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia
II. Norway, Belgium, Germany, Iceland, Netherlands
III. France, Ireland, Portugal, United Kingdom
IV. Italy, Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia, Spain, Yugoslavia.
V. Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Israel, Ukraine, Turkey
Metadata contributors completed an EDIOS Metadata Input Form for each observing system. They passed it on to their regional sampling centre, who passed it on to BODC for processing. For more information about these forms see 'How to submit information to EDIOS' on the EDIOS web site.
BODC also contributed to the
- Design of the EDIOS database
- Identification of relevant metadata for the directory
- Identification of potential EDIOS users
- Testing of a visual user interface for EDIOS
- Production of the CDROM containing the final version of EDIOS
Ongoing maintenance of the EDIOS
database will be performed by BODC on behalf of European Global Ocean Observing
System (EuroGOOS). EDIOS is available for public use via
the internet.
Along with other marine databases, the EDIOS metadatabase will be used and
developed further by the EU SeaDataNet (2006
- 2011) project. SeaDataNet is an EU funded project aiming to create and
operate a pan-European, marine data management infrastructure, accessible
online through a unique portal.
Related EDIOS pages at BODC
| Contents | Other links | |
| Project overview | Overview of SeaDataNet |
Related external links
| Official EDIOS project page | The Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) | |
| European Global Ocean Observing System (EuroGOOS) |
