# Presentation: 315915

## Information for Scientific and Community

**Pacific Marine Environmental Lab Seattle, Washington**

**Bernard Megrey**
**Alaska Fisheries Science Ctr**
**Seattle, Washington**

**Information for Scientific and Community**
**Collaboration and Advancement**

## To create a searchable web-based database of information describing research on the North Pacific ecosystem. 
A one-stop resource where investigators can go to find out everything that is being done on a species, on a topic, who is doing it and where they are doing it.

**To create a searchable web-based database of information describing research on the North Pacific ecosystem. **
**A one-stop resource where investigators can go to find out everything that is being done on a species, on a topic, who is doing it and where they are doing it.**

## Goal

**Goal**

## Objectives

**Determine what data exist **
**Determine where data are located**
**Identify who holds the data**
**Provide standardized descriptions of the data holdings using FGDC format**
**Develop an indexed and annotated catalog (metadatabase)**
**Make the metadatabase available through various mechanisms including the WWW**
**Develop data query and delivery tools via GIS map-based constructs**
**Provide live links to data when they exist**

##      Project Management

**Co-direction by ****Bernard Megrey**** (NOAA/AFSC) and**
**Allen Macklin**** (NOAA/PMEL)**
**Technical coordination by****Kimberly Bahl**** (University of Washington JISAO) and**** ****Dan Klawitte****r**** (Macrostaff)**
**Partial resources provided by NOAA Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Investigations (FOCI)**

##       History

**Founded in 1997 as the "Bering Sea Ecosystem Biophysical Metadatabase" in response to a call from the National Research Council.  Support from NOAA/ESDIM.**
**Further development and expansion in 1999-2001 with support from NPMR and in 2002 with support from NPRB.**
**Transition to "North Pacific Ecosystem Metadatabase" began in 2002, with support of PICES and funding from NOAA/ESDIM,.**

##      Funding Profile

##       Metamorphosis

## Access

**http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/bering/mdb**

## Monthly Metadatabase and Theme Page Use

## Metadata Holdings

**The metadatabase presently contains 1861 records, including 183 records that reference NPRB, GLOBEC, EVOS, and SSL proposals, data, progress reports, feature articles, radio programs, workshops, and scientific publications.**

## NPMRB/NPRB Objectives

**Archive metadata from NPMRB and NPRB investigators into the metadatabase.**
**Archive additional metadata pertaining to the North Pacific and its adjacent marine regions.**
**Improve metadata search capabilities.**
**Publish the metadatabase on the WWW and through other media.**
**Provide support to, and cooperate with, the NPRB and other North Pacific agencies, institutions and programs.**

## Methods

**Review funded proposals.**
**Establish a timeline for data availability.**
**Populate the metadatabase with NPRB metadata. **
**Maintain dialog with PIs throughout their study window to optimize the metadatabase.**
**Enhance search capabilities of the metadatabase by location and time, and enabling sub selection of returned records.**
**Extend metadatabase by conducting active and passive data searches.**
**Maintain contact with the NPRB Executive Director.**

## NPRB Contracted Milestones

| Year | Task | Date |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 3 | Enhance metadatabase search capabilities.  | Jan2003 |
| 3 | Maintain dialogue with NPRB investigators and web master. | Jun2003 |
| 3 | Populate metadatabase with available data from NPRB 2nd and ongoing field seasons. | Jun 2003 |
| 3 | Locate and archive metadata from Steller sea lion research. | Jun 2003 |

##   Advanced Search Tools

**  ****Advanced Search Tools**

##   Advanced Search Tools

**  ****Advanced Search Tools**

##   Advanced Search Tools

**  ****Advanced Search Tools**

## Use of ARCIMS and GIS Mapping Tools

**Use of ARCIMS and GIS Mapping Tools**

## Use of ARCIMS and GIS Mapping Tools

**Use of ARCIMS and GIS Mapping Tools**

## Search Against other ODCs

**Search Against other ODCs**

## Future Plans

**Continue the expansion of the metadatabase's geographic coverage from the Bering Sea to the North Pacific Ocean.**
**Cooperate with international oceanographic data centers (ODCs) to create a "distributed databases" search capability.**
**Enhance GIS-based data query and delivery.**
**Establish stable funding.**

## WE NEED YOURMETADATA!

**WE NEED YOUR****METADATA!**

## How Can You Contribute?

**Tell us if you or your colleagues have data on the North Pacific ecosystem.**
**Submit a form describing the data.**
**Be available to answer questions we may have about your metadata.**
**Submit updates as new data become available.**

## Important!

**Please bear in mind that we are NOT interested in the actual data...**
**Rather, we plan to report the existence of your data with a metadata description.**
**Data will stay under your control.**
**Our role is to help others locate and understand your data.  Useful collaborations may result!**