Environmental Data Archival: Practices and Benefits

An overview of the reasons why archiving environmental data properly is an important activity and the benefits to both data suppliers and end users. The talk will give examples from the work of the Centre for Environmental Data Archival at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory which runs both of NERC's British Atmospheric and Earth Observation Data Centres (BADC and NEODC) covering data delivery, archiving, discovery, visualisation and manipulation services at a facility responsible for over 1 Pb of important environmental data.Previously curated at: http://cedadocs.ceda.ac.uk/895/ Event type: workshop. The publish date on this item was its original published date. This work was funded by: Natural Environment Research Council. This item was not refereed before the publication Main files in this record: environmental_data_archival_rmetsoc_meeting_20111005.pptx Item originally deposited with Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) document repository by Dr Graham Parton. Transferred to CEDA document repository community on Zenodo on 2022-11-2