Data and Information Management:
he exam has 2 parts. The part of prof. Tim is closed book and has around 7 or 8 questions. The part of the guest teacher is open book and had 4 question.
Prof. Tim Deprez
1. Which problems can you encounter to compare the data of the Challenger expedition and data from the Census of Marine Life
2. What is the Berlin declaration. In which context was it discussed?
3. Why is important a Data Policy
4. Give 2 examples of carrot dilema (so that can be attractive) for data sharing
5. What has in common WORMS and VLIMAR
6. What is GOOS
7. What is the OBIS-scheme
8. Design a data base for the next experiment. Specify for the tables the field types and the relations. They make an experiment at different beaches, where they supply different
amounts of sand and they want to monitore the effect it has in the benthic community. During 1 year, they go 6 times to collect samples at the different sites and at different distances from the sample supply
Guest Teacher (Francisco Hernández).
1. You have data of 10 stations, the latitude and longitud and the time you where there. Explain 2 ways to do quality control with this data
2. You have a depth measured with a CTD, 17m and the depth measured at the same place with an echosounder is 13m. Both of them are correct. Explain why.
3. How long does the vessels travels from 52°50'N 2°40'E and 52°35'N 2°40'E if it travels at a velocity of 5knots.
4. We have some problems with latinized species name. Explain 2 problems we saw in class and say some solutions.
