NERC EDS

The UK’s Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has an Environmental Data Service (EDS) consisting of a network of environmental data centres. The NERC Data Catalogue Service provides an integrated, searchable catalogue of the data holdings of EDS. In addition, BODC provides the NERC Vocabulary Server (NVS) which gives access to standardised and hierarchically-organized vocabularies of metadata terms.

Data centre discipline	Data centre name
Marine	British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC)
Atmospheric, Earth Observation, and Solar and space physics	Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Terrestrial and freshwater	Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC)
Geoscience	National Geoscience Data Centre (NGDC)
Polar and cryosphere	Polar Data Centre (PDC)

NERC also contracts the Archaeology Data Service to manage and make available data arising from NERC funded research in Science Based Archaeology.

In addition to these data centres, NERC also operates a range of facilities, some of which provide access to specific types of samples or data:

• British Ocean Sediment Core Research Facility (BOSCORF)
• Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa (CCAP)
• NERC Earth Observation Data Acquisition and Analysis Service (NEODASS)