The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) is a United Kingdom national facility designed to hold, manage and distribute data concerning the marine environment. Data holdings include biological, chemical, physical and geophysical data, containing measurements of nearly 22,000 different variables.

BODC describes their approach to marine data management as:

• Careful storage, quality control and archiving of data - so that data are unaffected by changes in technology and will be available into the future.
• Distributing data to scientists, education, industry and the public - with a goal to enable online access to all data via the web site.
• Working alongside scientists during marine research projects - to provide a data management service during the life time of the project.

BODC holds a wealth of publicly accessible marine data under the provision of licence agreements. Read more about:

• Submitting, requesting and retrieving data.
• Data management services
• UK, European and International projects at BODC.
• The Published Data Library (PDL), which is an operational prototype that provides snapshots of specially chosen data sets, archived using rigorous version management. This enables citation of the data set in journal papers through the assignment of a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) in collaboration with the British Library.

BODC is run by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), and hosted by the National Oceanography Centre (NOC).