Resources

How to Contribute Data

If you are interested in contributing data to the BCO data collection, or would like to discuss management of your data associated with an existing or proposed project, please contact us.

See our where to archive data document describing where to archive data for long term preservation.

A series of 'milepost' documents providing guidance to OCB scientists who are uncertain where to submit or propose to submit their data is being drafted.

  • NSF-OCE and NASA OB&B biogeochemical data submission milepost (view the PDF)

Data Management Best Practices Guide

BCO-DMO staff members are putting together a data management best practices guide. Decades of experience managing oceanographic data is being distilled into a manual of best practice recommendations for managing marine data. The current version of the manual is available for download in PDF format or as an HTML format file (coming soon).

We would appreciate receiving comments about this manual. If you care to take the time to provide feedback to us, please contact any of the BCO-DMO staff members.

Metadata Database

All of the information about the data we make accessible is kept in the metadata database. It includes such information as who collected the data, who contributed the data, what type of data were collected, what instruments were used, etc. You can view additional information about the metadata database by clicking here. Forms are available for contributing metadata to the BCO-DMO:

Marine Metadata Interoperability Project (MMI)

BCO-DMO staff members have participated in MMI workshops and the MMI Web site is a valuable resource for information pertaining to marine metadata (MMI » MMI Web site)

JGOFS/GLOBEC Data Management Software

The JGOFS/GLOBEC data management software was developed by Glenn Flierl, et al. (description) and is one of the main ways we serve data and make data available for downloading. The software is available from ftp://globec.whoi.edu/pub/software/JGOFS_GLOBEC and information about becoming a data server is available from http://globec.whoi.edu/globec-dir/jgofs-server.html.

Presentations, PowerPoints, Posters

Check this page for copies of presentations, power point files, and posters. They are listed by date, first author and title, with the most recent entry listed first.

Optional BCO Site Login

The entire BCO site is accessible without logging in. However, if you wish to modify BCO site information, we request that you identify yourself (become an authenticated user of this site) via user login.