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Dr Louise Darroch

Data Scientist, British Oceanographic Data Centre

Dr Louise Darroch is listed as Data Scientist, British Oceanographic Data Centre. Louise spoke at AGI GeoCom: Sovereign data, shared futures in November 2026 (panellist, “Data in the World of Geospatial”). Speaks mainly at Non-profit and Social Services events.

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About

Lou is a Senior , part of the National Oceanography Centre, where she leads major software developments for sensor data management while championing data best practice. Her work spans marine data infrastructures, semantic interoperability and data commons, contributing to initiatives supported by the NERC Environmental Data Service, EU Horizon programmes and UKRI. She was the lead instrument vocabulary specialist for the NERC Vocabulary Server (NVS) and has contributed to marine geospatial sensor data profiles aligned with Sensor Web Enablement standards and the INSPIRE Directive. Lou co-chaired the development of internationally endorsed best practice for citing scientific instruments using persistent identifiers, now adopted in several national PID strategies worldwide. Through the Research Data Alliance’s Complex Citations Group, she works with publishers and citation indexers to improve research object attribution and recognition. Lou is also a task group co-chair for Interoperabil

Sessions at 1 conference

AGI GeoCom: Sovereign data, shared futures 12 November 2026

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