Data
Management Office
The U.S. JGOFS Data Management Office (DMO), formed to support
the data management needs of the U.S. JGOFS program, and
based at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, has been
funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). The
DMO was tasked to oversee the design and maintenance of
the U.S. JGOFS database, to prepare newly acquired data
and documentation for addition to that database, to work
with principal investigators on final quality control of
their data and to synthesize data products from field study
data.
The U.S. JGOFS Data Server utilizes the
JGOFS Database Management System (DBMS), a distributed, object-oriented system,
originally developed by Glenn Flierl, James Bishop, Satish
Paranjpe and David Glover. The JGOFS DBMS changed considerably
during the years the U.S. JGOFS program was active. It has
several interfaces, the most user-friendly of which is the
web browser interface. The data server is available on-line
at: [ http://usjgofs.whoi.edu/jg/dir/jgofs/ ]
The JGOFS DBMS was used during the initial decade-long
field study phase of U.S. JGOFS to organize the data and facilitate access
to and sharing of data and metadata collected by U.S. JGOFS investigators.
The U.S. JGOFS Data Management Office personnel developed guidelines
to assist participating JGOFS investigators and their collaborators
to contribute data to the JGOFS collection.
The Synthesis and Modeling Project (SMP) was the final phase of the U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study.
The variety and volume of SMP results necessitated a different type of organization and interface.
In December 2000, the DMO began collaboration
with a team at Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (NOAA/PMEL) to
customize the Live Access Server for use with the U.S. JGOFS SMP data collection,
and specifically the merged products synthesized from in situ profile data.
The U.S. JGOFS SMP LAS provides
online access to many of the data entities which comprise
the SMP data collection.
The U.S. JGOFS Data Management Office personnel developed guidelines
to assist participating U.S. JGOFS investigators and their collaborators
to contribute data to the JGOFS collection.
The guidelines for the
Synthesis and Modeling Project were quite different from those adopted
during the initial field study programs.
Cynthia Chandler, manager of the U.S. JGOFS Data Management Office, has presented
several talks and posters in an effort to share what we have learned.
U.S. JGOFS Data Management:
Data Management in the Wild (PPT or
PDF)
July 2006: poster by C.Chandler and D.M.Glover
at the Ocean Carbon Biogeochemistry Workshop at WHOI, Woods Hole, MA
U.S. JGOFS Data Management:
a retrospective (PPT)
or (PDF)
May 2005: contributed by C.Chandler
to U.S. NSF OCE Data Management/Data Policy Discussion in Washington, DC
U.S. JGOFS Data Management: a retrospective (PPT)
or (PDF)
January 2005: talk contributed by C.Chandler
to NACP Data Management Workshop, New Orleans, LA
(unable to attend workshop due to blizzard of 2005)
Data Management at WHOI: the U.S. JGOFS Contribution (PPT)
November 2004: presentation by C.Chandler
at Joint SIO-SDSC-LDEO-WHOI DIGARCH Ocean Informatics Summit
U.S. JGOFS: An Introduction (PPT)
December 2003: presentation by C.Chandler
at Joint LTER-U.S.JGOFS Ocean Informatics Exchange Workshop
Publishing a Scientific Data Report on CD-ROM (PPT)
September 2003: presentation by C.Chandler
at Woods Hole Information Technology Seminar
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