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The Caspian Sea Oceanographic and Environmental Data Inventory
You can download the Inventory here: Caspian Sea Data Inventory.zip (3.47 Mb). You need about 30 Mb available at your hard disk to unzip the Inventory. Creation of the detailed Caspian Sea Oceanographic and Environmental Data Inventory is conducted under the auspices of the Caspian Regional Data and Information Management Theme. Full access to high quality, up-to-date data and information is essential to multi-sectoral participation in a cooperative regional programme and to decision-making at the national and regional levels. A comprehensive Caspian Sea Information System (CaspSIS) on human resources, institutions, databases (data sets), programmes and projects as well as a Caspian Bibliography has been developed in a framework of this theme. Directories of metadata can play an important role in improving the overview and exchange of data, information and knowledge, related to the marine environment. At national, regional, and global levels it is recognized more and more, that meta-databases are an effective way of organizing and stimulating communication and cooperation between and among scientific institutes, governmental departments and others, involved in research, education, management and policy making. As a first step, the development of a meta-level information system with an overview of regional and national capabilities as well as human resources is essential. One of the important directions of the CaspSIS creation is the compilation of the detailed directory of oceanographic, environmental and pollutant data available for the Caspian Sea region. The Inventory software is simple in use and has an user friendly interface. It works under Windows NT/95/98/2000/XP.
Main data unit within the Inventory is a data set. You can see how many stations were carried out for each variable measured within a data set. Some data contributors, usually biologists and chemists, passed information about the amount of samples (casts), but not on the amount of stations. It is possible to navigate through data sets and stations with help of keyboard or mouse clicking on the map. Information about the current data set and station is displayed instantly. A user can select data sets on time, region, country, institution, measured variables, etc. Only selected datasets are displayed.
Data included into Inventory are divided into three groups: Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. This version of Inventory contains information on 3883 datasets since 1926 till 2001 from 8 institutions (88,311 stations, 123 variables and group of variables). The Inventory software was developed at the Database Laboratory of Marine Hydrophysical Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Copyright © 2001-2002, DBL MHI NASU Project Superviser: Dr Vladimir Vladymyrov (CEP) Software developers: Alexandr Konoplyanikov Address 99000, Marine Hydrophysical Institute, Data Providers: Dr. Svetlana Gadjieva Dr. Ramiz Mamedov Omid Haeri-Ardakani Dr. Nina Degtyareva Dr. Alexander Korshenko Dr. A. Kuznetsov Dr. Victor Sapozhnikov Dr. Vladimir L. Vladymyrov, Caspian Centre for Pollution Control |
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