A Thematic Approach to Data Management and Implementation of INSPIRE: The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network

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1 A Thematic Approach to Data Management and Implementation of INSPIRE: The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Mark Charlesworth

2 Content Importance marine data management MEDIN outline MEDIN relationship to UK Location Programme (data.gov) and INSPIRE Thematic approaches to data management Summary

3 Why is data management in marine sector important? Confidence in assessments and ability to detect trends limited By lack of access to data By lack of time to use existing data MEDIN has grown from previous work that have been in operation since 1996 but new push as MEDIN since 2007

4 Operational MEDIN Seven interlinked work streams: 1. Network of marine Data Archive Centres (DACs) 2. Suite of standards for data and metadata, together with guidelines and tools. 3. Web portal, products and services 4. International awareness, coordination and data delivery to global data-bases 5. Resource and application development 6. Communications: outreach, forums, publicity 7. Management, planning and coordination

5 Data Archive Centres the base of MEDIN MEDIN has built a network of accredited marine Data Archive Centres, linked by the adoption of common standards and common descriptions of their data. DAC Network Objective: To provide secure long-term storage for marine data. To provide the capability to upload data into and to retrieve data from the DACs. Data contributors should have free access to their data managed within the DAC framework. Required capabilities of DACs: To ensure the secure, long term, curation of key marine data sets, according to best practice and to relevant national and international standards. To make available clear, searchable information on their data holdings, by the generation and publication of metadata on the MEDIN portal. To form the first point of call of expertise for the management of marine data.

6 Standards 1) Discovery metadata standard to support portal search. Marine themed UK GEMINI2 and so INSPIRE compliant. Tools. E.g. Metadata Maestro ml 2) Data guidelines: For provision to DACS, and thematic interoperability Commensurate structure to Observations and Measurements e.g. MEDIN data guideline for sediment sampling by grab or core for benthos 3) Controlled Vocabularies Largely derived from other resources (e.g. SeaDataNet, ICES, EPSG) and provided via web services

7 Discovery Portal CSW for data.gov ++ is in test phase

8 Resources and applications Reference information and other key information layers What should be in a base reference data set? Who could supply it? How could it be made available? Who will manage it in the longer term? Dataset Coastline for UK, Ireland, and continental Europe Elevation / Bathymetry Tidal surfaces Infrastructure, e.g. cables, turbines, well heads Wrecks & seabed obstructions Substrate lithology (material) & morphology (shape) Surface obstructions (e.g. buoys, pontoons) National boundaries (3, 6, 12, fisheries, cont shelf), regional boundaries, administrative boundaries (E&W&S) Limits (e.g. ICES, port authority, oil & gas, conservation areas such as SACs, CFP, SFC regions and byelaws, PEXAs, aggregate dredging areas) Coastal and marine habitats (seabed and water column) Gazetteer (places names and extents Originator NMCAs, UKHO (0m), DMA, ESRI UKHO, Ports UKHO Various Various BGS, MoD, UKHO, SeaZone UKHO, NMCAs Various Various JNCC, CCW, NE, SNH International Hydrographic Bureau

9 MEDIN Data Clause Good data management is essential if data are to be reuseable. Often data management is only considered as an afterthought, once the data have been collected, and inadequate resources are allocated Greater costs to source, reformat, reuse data Unnecessary expensive resurvey MEDIN has developed a simple standard data clause that can be included within the tender process, or referenced at the planning stage, to ensure data management is properly planned

10 Operational MEDIN Metadata (discovery) Discovery Portal Metatdata Data Archived Data+Metadata Flexibility for range of organisational technical capacities and needs

11 MEDIN relationship to data.gov +++ and INSPIRE? MEDIN can, if required meet partners metadata/data publishing obligations under INSPIRE MEDIN will publish all MEDIN metadata (on request) through to UK node and hence to INSPIRE. MEDIN DACs to provide the view and download service

12 The MEDIN Approach to INSPIRE implementation Metadata (discovery) Discovery CSW Data.gov +++ Portal Data Archived Annex view and download

13 MEDIN relationship to data.gov +++ and INSPIRE? Not all organisations collecting marine data have to comply to INSPIRE Not all marine data is included in INSPIRE themes Need to think wider than INSPIRE e.g MSFD, MSP etc etc

14 Issues for a thematic data management framework Breaking down SDI/data management into manageable chunks helps engagement with user communities and therefore success The user community should define its requirements which is likely to be different for different communities Provide more than a framework for publishing and accessing data. Long term stewardship and QA is key Flexibility is key for different partner capacity

15 Summary MEDIN is working with a specific community to improve data management and access for a wide range of drivers While doing that we are adopting INSPIRE standards to enable partners to meet INSPIRE requirements if needed Thematic approaches do get involvement from non data managers and thus improve the stakeholder input.

The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network MEDIN

The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network MEDIN M. Charlesworth, R. Lowry, H. Freeman, J. Rapaport, B Seeley Content MEDIN - a brief overview for context Discovery Metadata Standard and