466777c48b585bcbbc064e21516de0c7 English dataset Polly Hadžiabdic British Oceanographic Data Centre Head of the BODC Requests Team Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ pointOfContact 2018-05-22T14:23:55 MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard Version 2.3.8 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 OGP Scanned images of tide gauge charts from Bowling, River Clyde, 1888-1938 British Oceanographic Data Centre record 1048bowlingcharts 2018-02-06 publication 2017-03-09 creation 2018-02-08 revision EDMED6626 http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ The dataset consists of 2580 tiff images of tide gauge charts from Bowling, River Clyde. The images were taken from annual bound volumes of tide gauge charts (~1 page per week, 52 pages per volume). A typical volume measures 37 x 34 x 3.5 cm and pages are single sided. The ledgers for Bowling begin in 1888 and end in 1952, but under this project, only the charts up until 04/01/1939 were photographed. The trace on the original charts was generated by a float tide gauge. The float inside a stilling-well was connected by a wire run over pulleys to a pen that moved up and down as the tide rose and fell. The images were generated by a commercial scanning organisation (TownsWeb Archiving Ltd) using a planetary overhead book scanner. In July 2016 The Peel Group Ltd. (Glasgow) approached BODC to donate their tidal archive, due to office redevelopment. The archive consists of ledgers of tide gauge charts (345 annual bound volumes) and handwritten ledgers (91 bound books) from several locations along the Clyde, with the earliest record beginning in 1841 from Glasgow Harbour. Later that year BODC received a grant from the Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN) to photograph a selection of the ledgers. MEDIN released these funds to support small Data Archiving Projects that increase access to industry marine data. Ledgers also exist for Broomielaw, Dalmuir, Gourock, Govan Wharf, Greenock, Partick Wharf Glasgow, Queen's Dock Entrance Glasgow and Rothesay Dock. Most begin in the late 19th Century and run to the mid-20th century. It is hoped that these will be digitised in the future, subject to funding. Unknown Peel Ports Group Ltd Unknown +44 (0)151 949 6000 Maritime Centre Liverpool L21 1lA United Kingdom Callum.McFadden@peelports.com https://www.peelports.com/ originator British Oceanographic Data Centre Director Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ custodian asNeeded Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Natural Environment Research Council Designated Data Centres MEDIN metadata record availability 2012-01-11 revision unknown Vertical Coverages 2013-02-06 revision Sea level SeaDataNet PDV 2018-04-05 revision Elevation INSPIRE themes 2009-07-31 revision No conditions apply otherRestrictions Data are freely available English oceans elevation -4.494 -4.494 55.932 55.932 1888-10-06 1939-01-04 British Oceanographic Data Centre Director Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool Merseyside L3 5DA United Kingdom enquiries@bodc.ac.uk http://www.bodc.ac.uk/ distributor dataset This dataset was created by scanning tide gauge charts donated to the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) by The Peel Group Ltd. (Glasgow). The dataset was then ingested into the National Oceanographic Database (NODB). BODC have not quality controlled (QC) the data within the images but have performed QC on the image files, including checking the TIFF metadata tags using DPF Manager. Instrument(s) used to collect data: sea level recorders.