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The MTP II- MATER data management structure is distributed among three Regional Data
Centers, an Animation Task and an Expert Data Quality Committee.
The Regional Data Centers compile,
safeguard and give access to the data sets and the catalogues, making use of the local
archiving facilities and their expertise in data management. They prepare the
project data protocol and manuals. They provide data management services
during the project implementation and later on, for further exploitation of
the data. They insure technical and regional responsibilityies that are:
 | IFREMER/SISMER (Brest, France) : Regional Data Center for the Western Basin , also
coordinator of the data management, archives the data and meta-data collected in the
Western Basin : Alboran sea, Balearic Sea, Gulf of Lion, Algiers Basin and Sardinia
Straits. |
| OGS (Trieste, Italy) : Regional Data Center for the Adriatic/Ionian Basin archives the
data and meta-data collected in the Adriatic Sea, in the Ionian Basin and in the Sicily
Strait, |
| NCMR/HNODC (Athens, Greece) Regional Data Center for the Eastern Basin
archives the data
and meta-data collected in the Aegean Sea and Levantine Basin |
The Animation Task aims was created to help the circulation of information
on data during the project implementation, among
the project management, data management and scientific teams. Therefore it
compiles and
updates the cruise schedule, publishes it on internet and makes appropriate
links to the regional centers catalogues
and servers.
The Expert Data Quality Committee, chaired by the scientific project
coordinator, supervised the methods used to collect, validate and archive the data.
Data Management Methodology
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Data Management Protocol Manuals
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To insure coherence and compatibility of all the data set released, a common
protocol for data formatting (MEDATLAS Format) and checking
(Quality Assurance) has been defined by the Data Management Team. The protocol includes
a MATER Data Manual (Vol. 1) a data
dictionary (Vol2) describing the codes, names, units and broad range values of
variation for about 200 parameters.
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Synthesis of the data management
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Maillard C., E. Balopoulos, A. Giorgetti, M. Fichaut, S. Iona, M. Larour, A.
Latrouite,
B. Manca, G. Maudire, P. Nicolas and J-A Sanchez-Cabeza,
An integrated system for managing multidisciplinary oceanographic data collected in the Mediterranean Sea during the basin-scale project EU/MAST-MATER (1996-2000)
References in the documentation page Networking
All the meta-data (cruises, moorings reports, data sets and instrument
description, documentation) and interfaces for requested data on line are
available from the distributed MATER data management internet server :
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