Reading List for Introduction to Marine Data Management I or II

Marine Data Literacy

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Reading List for Introduction to Marine Data Management I or II

The half of knowledge, is knowing where to find knowledge

To take either of these courses, you need to read about 20 articles in the OceanTeacher Academy Digital Library; they are not in MDL. You don't need to memorize anything, and you should focus only on the articles linked below. The top-level structure of the Library is indicated just to help you understand the overall content. Feel free to explore the entire resource (i.e. the 250 other articles) on your own time. Ask your instructor if you have questions, or use the Digital Library's search function to find items of interest. Quoted items are taken verbatim (or nearly so) from the Library.

Marine Data Management - Main entry point for the library; you can navigate down to the articles, or use the direct links below.

General Marine Reference Shelf - "Resources describing or defining basic concepts and entities mentioned throughout OceanTeacher, including additional educational opportunities in selected topics."
Manipulation - Analysis - Display - "Methods and tools to make usable analysis products from various available levels of "raw" data"
Marine Data Infrastructure - "The information technology, specifications and standards needed to understand and displayreported parameter values and their descriptions."
- Bathymetry and Topography -"Taken together, are called global relief."
- Scalars and Vectors
- Gridded Data
- Coastlines and Landmasks
- Marine Data Format Types - Descriptions of 12 major types
  - Spreadsheet Formats
  - Vector Formats
  - Raster and Grid Formats
  - Archive Formats
  - Self-Describing Formats
  - Metadata Formats ("Standards")
- General File-Naming Convention for Earth Science Datasets
- Remote Sensing Data Concepts - "Please just browse quickly through the main sub-pages, so you have an idea of the concepts and the articles available. This is not a remote sensing course, so we only introduce the locations of the materials."
- Remote Sensing Product Levels
Marine Data Quality Management - "The procedures, exercises and systems employed to insure the reliability and accuracy of marine data. QM is usually considered to consist of the two phases Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC)."
Marine Data Transmission and Product Distribution Systems - "Technology (and systems) developed for global electronic publication of data, analysis products and model simulations of the marine domain"
- Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol (OPeNDAP)
Marine Data and Products - "The activities and entities who make marine (and related) measurements to publish them in the form of datasets and/or derived products, and the publications, archives and online facilities where they can be found"
- Data Websites and Catalogs - Collection of nine top-level catalogs ("gateways") of the best data-providing sites on the web. Briefly scan these lists to get an idea of the resources out there. The marine gateway has 6 topical sub-lists; the geospatial and remote sensing gateways are single lists.
- World Ocean Database and World Ocean Atlas
- MDL List of Essential Global Data Layers for Marine Atlases - Just a resource list; no reading

Real-World Projects

Argo - Argo is a globalarray of 3,000 free-drifting profiling floats that measures thetemperature and salinity of the upper 2000 m of the ocean. Please just look over the very top level material for a general idea of what this program provides, and how many floats are the goal.
GTSPP - The Global Temperature and Salinity Profile Program. Just read over the top-level material.