Data Management and Reuse for Oceanographers: Glossary

Key Points

Introduction to Data Reuse, Access and Provenance
  • Data Analyisis in Spreadsheets is Challenging

Assessing Datasets for Reuse
  • Good data organization is the foundation of any research project.

BCO-DMO Data Access
  • Data can be downloaded in different file formats based in user needs

  • ERDDAP helps converting files to the needed format

  • Datasets can be subsetted for easier use

What is Data Provenance
  • You can’t go back in time and collect some kinds of metadata. You have to keep good notes and records.

Provenance Walkthrough
  • Provenance should be captured while you work with your data.

Practice provenance
  • some keypoint

Glossary

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