Objective
This proposal addresses a fundamental problem relating to marine sample data management within Europe and, if implemented, will enable, and streamline, exploitation of an important, but currently underexploited, existing raw data resource.
We propose: 1. To establish a searchable central-access database of seabed sample data held at European Institutions accessible through the World Wide Web (WWW).
2. To establish a European Core Curators Group to update the database, both in content and design, standardise core description protocols throughout Europe, solicit end-user needs in accessing seabed data, and represent European marine curatorial facilities at an international level.
Within the countries of the European Union many thousands of marine cores and seafloor samples have been collected by research institutes, universities, and exploration and survey companies. These sediment cores and samples have a wide range of applications and are the fundamental data source for information on seabed character and recent sedimentation. Such information is vital to a large number of end-users in industry, governments and academia. Research into global climate change, slope stability, oil exploration, pollution assessment and control, surveying for laying telecommunication cables and offshore pipelines, coastal development and the siting of seafloor structures by government and commercial concerns all rely on data obtained from marine sediment samples. The collection and storage of these samples represents a considerable financial outlay and even a conservative estimate would put the total cost of collecting and storing these samples at several hundred million ecu. It is currently very difficult for end-users of seabed data to find out what seafloor samples have been collected and stored throughout the countries of the European Union. After they have served the primary data requirement for which they were collected, seafloor samples are normally stored in controlled environments for further use. Tens of thousands of marine sediment cores are dispersed in archives throughout Europe. These form a valuable, unique and expensive resource of long-term scientific value, which is currently underexploited. The EUROCORE Consortium brings together some of the largest Core Repositories in Europe. Each Partner is in a central position for gathering bottom sample metadata in their respective countries through established national networks for submission to the database. Establishment of such a central-access searchable database will greatly enhance secondary use of this important dispersed data resource and will benefit marine scientists throughout Europe and worldwide.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences geology sedimentology
- natural sciences computer and information sciences databases
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences environmental sciences pollution
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences atmospheric sciences climatology climatic changes
- natural sciences computer and information sciences internet world wide web
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SO14 3ZH SOUTHAMPTON
United Kingdom
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