Data Management Systems And Tools

A key recommendation of the October 2000 Frontier Report was for NOAA to establish a broad-based data management task force to design and implement an integrated and comprehensive data management system. In October 2002 NESDIS accepted this charge and formed an Integrated Product Team in partnership with OE, other NOAA and non-NOAA partners. Under the leadership of the Director, NOAA Central Library, the IPT forms a framework for stakeholders in the OE data management mission. The IPT membership has expanded and contracted since its inception; working groups and Tiger Teams have formed, set and achieved goals, dissolved and reformed in an adaptive manner in response to accomplishments and the evolving data management mission. The IPT continues to evolve. This page provides access to systems and tools used in data management.

	Digital Atlas A legacy Ocean Exploration product developed at NCDDC, the Digital Atlas geographically represents all OE Signature and Summary expeditions and provides access to associated data and information resources.
	Cruise Information Management System (CIMS) The Cruise Information Management System (CIMS) revolutionizes the generation of metadata for the operations and data collection activities occurring during ocean expeditions and will soon provide a post-mission web-based interface for OER and their constituents to manage these data.
	Groupware Collaborative Tools Site for Data Management Integrated Product Team
Video Data Management System	Archiving, Preserving, and Accessing Online Oceanographic Information
	MERMAid Metadata Enterprise Resource Management Aid (MERMAid)
	NURP MIS Library Interactive Research Forms to NURP Projects, Data Products, Multimedia and Publications.