Biological oceanography datasets from Centre for Estuarine and Marine Ecology (NIOO-CEME)

Several thousand references to individual marine and oceanographic datasets are aggregated by the National Oceanographic Data Committee of the Netherlands. The data is managed in a distributed way by NODC members and accessed via the NODC-i portal, which functions as the Dutch node in the European SeaDataNet infrastructure. The datasets are provided by the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties.

Use Cases

• Modeling estuarine and marine ecosystem health based on aggregated biological oceanography data.
• Analyzing spatial and temporal trends in marine biology for policy compliance with EU Marine Strategy directives.
• Conducting meta-analyses of oceanographic observations by accessing harmonized metadata from multiple Dutch research institutes.

Strengths

• Aggregates several thousand individual dataset references from multiple Dutch government and research institutes.
• Provides harmonized access via a Common Data Index interface complying with European INSPIRE and SeaDataNet standards.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

National Oceanographic Data Committee (NODC) of the Netherlands, comprising government and research institutes.

Collection Method

Aggregated from distributed data management systems of NODC members via a Common Data Index (CDI) interface.

Time Range

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Freshness

unknown

Geography

Netherlands, with European and global scale partnerships.