***************************************************************** Journal for accession number: 0140482 Created on: 2016-01-11 21:14:43 UTC By: Olga Baranova, National Centers for Environmental Information Source: These data were submitted by Abby Benson from USGS as a dump 'sql' file from the Post Gres database of the all Marine Biogeographic Records available as of 2015-01-16. Actions: These data were unzipped and copied to the 0-data directory of the accession. The dump file was split in to 29 subsets (due to size of the original file) and converted in comma separated value format (csv) easily readable by Excel. A lon/lat file and map were generated based on extracted information from the data. Files: about/ This directory contains files created by NCEI staff, email correspondence, and other 'negotiable' information between NCEI staff and the data provider. 0140482_lonlat.txt - Contains sample locations for these data. Each row contains the geographical position where these data were collected (longitude in the left column and latitude in the right column, both in degrees). NCEI may have corrected geographic positions that seemed to be in error when generating this file. However, NCEI did not change the original data files under the directory data/0-data/. 0140482_map.jpg - Sample location map for these data. 0140482_preview.jpg - Location map created by NCEI staff to support NCEI browse graphic management. 0-email.txt - E-mail from dataprovider notifying NCEI that they sent their data to the NCEI. data/0-data/ This directory contains the data files as submitted to NCEI. obisusa_schema_dump_Generated_MBG_Metadata_public_20150116.sql - a dump 'sql' file from the Post Gres database of the all Marine Biogeographic Records available as of 2015-01-16. data/1-data/ This directory contains the data subsets prepared by NCEI staff. GeneralMetadata.csv - A Comma Separated Value file contains metadata extracted from a dump 'sql' file. MBG-subset1.csv ... MBG-subset29.csv - A twenty nine csv files contain all Marine Biogeographic Records available as of 2015-01-16.