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Metadata: 2000 Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) Sanday intertidal broad-scale mapping survey
Abstract:
The island of Sanday in the Orkney Islands has a low-lying, indented coastline with extensive rocky shores and headlands broken by long, clean sand beaches and muddy inlets. A large section of the island has been proposed as a candidate Special Area of Conservation (cSAC) to protect the common seals, the subtidal reefs and the intertidal sediments. During the summer of 2000, a comprehensive biotope mapping survey of the shores was commissioned by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) with the objective of producing broad-scale biotope maps of the intertidal habitats. These would be used to inform SNH's development of conservation objectives and the future management of the site. The survey was carried out in Phase 1 level of detail (Hiscock, 1996; Wyn et al., 2000) using the current (at the time of analysis) national Marine Biotope Classification (Connor et al., 1997a, b). A shoreline length of approximately 73km and an area of 14.7km2 were mapped during this project. The 53 biotopes recorded were combined into 33 biotope groups for presentation on the maps which included an overview of the shore biology as well as maps showing the distribution of biotopes around the island. The coastline was divided into nine broad shore types for the purposes of this report. The survey was divided into 39 sites and within each site the biotopes recorded were listed.
Data holder:
NatureScot (HQ Inverness)
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| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 11265 |
| Title | The title is used to provide a brief and precise description of the dataset such as 'Date', 'Originating organisation/programme', 'Location' and 'Type of survey'. All acronyms and abbreviations should be reproduced in full. | 2000 Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) Sanday intertidal broad-scale mapping survey |
| File Identifier | The File Identifier is a code, preferably a GUID, that is globally unique and remains with the same metadata record even if the record is edited or transferred between portals or tools. | 1919b3e9e30b3208557f95f0350e1cb0 |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | GB-SCT-SNH-ME-000-MRSNH0010000001E-SAND |
| Resource type | The resource type will likely be a dataset but could also be a series (collection of datasets with a common specification) or a service. | dataset |
| Start date | This describes the date the resource starts. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2000-07-31 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2000-08-09 |
| Spatial resolution | This describes the spatial resolution of the dataset or the spatial limitations of the service. | inapplicable |
| Frequency of updates | This describes the frequency with which the resource is modified or updated i.e. a monitoring programme that samples once per year has a frequency that is described as 'annually'. | notPlanned |
| Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | The island of Sanday in the Orkney Islands has a low-lying, indented coastline with extensive rocky shores and headlands broken by long, clean sand beaches and muddy inlets. A large section of the island has been proposed as a candidate Special Area of Conservation (cSAC) to protect the common seals, the subtidal reefs and the intertidal sediments. During the summer of 2000, a comprehensive biotope mapping survey of the shores was commissioned by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) with the objective of producing broad-scale biotope maps of the intertidal habitats. These would be used to inform SNH's development of conservation objectives and the future management of the site. The survey was carried out in Phase 1 level of detail (Hiscock, 1996; Wyn et al., 2000) using the current (at the time of analysis) national Marine Biotope Classification (Connor et al., 1997a, b). A shoreline length of approximately 73km and an area of 14.7km2 were mapped during this project. The 53 biotopes recorded were combined into 33 biotope groups for presentation on the maps which included an overview of the shore biology as well as maps showing the distribution of biotopes around the island. The coastline was divided into nine broad shore types for the purposes of this report. The survey was divided into 39 sites and within each site the biotopes recorded were listed. |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | The 53 biotopes recorded were combined into 33 biotope groups for presentation on the maps which included an overview of the shore biology as well as maps showing the distribution of biotopes around the island. Where two biotopes were present in an area of shore and could not be satisfactorily separated, these were mapped as mosaics. The minimum area of the biotopes was approximately 5 x 5 m. Biotopes covering a discrete smaller area were included either as target notes or, where there were several small patches within a larger biotope, as subsidiary biotopes. No species data from these sites has been entered into Marine Recorder (it is not clear whether any was collected). The samples are entered as a series of lines (Which presumably represent the extent of the site) and it is not apparent where in the site the individual biotope determinations apply; reference to the GIS products would likely give a better representation of the biotope distribution. One of the aims of the project was to store the data in SNH GIS ArcView. The maps were digitised and the GIS project compiled by SeaMap at Newcastle University. Ordnance Survey National Grid coordinate reference system was used. Maps were prepared for digitising and associated survey data were entered into Excel spreadsheets. These spreadsheets were subsequently modified for importing into GIS by SeaMap, as described in Howson (2000). |
| Additional information | This describes relevant references to the data e.g. reports, articles, websites plus other useful information not captured elsewhere. | Howson, C. M. (2000) Intertidal survey of Sanday cSAC and SPA. Scottish Natural Heritage Commissioned Report F00PA26 (Unpublished report); White, W. H., Foster-Smith, R. L. & Sotheran, I. S. (2000) Broad scale survey and mapping of seabed biota: Sanday kelp beds. Scottish Natural Heritage Commissioned Report F99PA06. |
| Related keywords | ||
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | NDGO0005 | |
| Keyword title | data.gov.uk | |
| Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Habitats and biotopes |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Habitat characterisation | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Habitat extent | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Macroalgae and seagrass taxonomy-related counts | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Sediment grain size parameters | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Zoobenthos taxonomic abundance | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Zoobenthos taxonomy-related counts | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 59.4257 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -2.3542 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 59.0627 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -3.048 |
| Regional sea | Scottish Continental Shelf | |
| Responsible organisations | ||
| Role | The point of contact is person or organisation with responsibility for the creation and maintenance of the metadata for the resource. | pointOfContact |
| Organisation name | NatureScot (HQ Inverness) | |
| data_supply@nature.scot | ||
| Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
| Organisation name | Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), Headquaters | |
| Individual name | Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) | |
| Position name | Data Manager | |
| Phone | 01463 725000 | |
| data_supply@nature.scot | ||
| Role | The custodian is the person or organisation that accepts responsibility for the resource and ensures appropriate care and maintenance. If a dataset has been lodged with a Data Archive Centre for maintenance then this organisation is be entered here. | custodian |
| Organisation name | NatureScot (HQ Inverness) | |
| Position name | NatureScot Data Manager | |
| data_supply@nature.scot | ||
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), Headquaters | |
| Individual name | Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) | |
| Position name | Data Manager | |
| Phone | 01463 725000 | |
| data_supply@nature.scot | ||
| Role | The distributor is the person or organisation that distributes the resource. | distributor |
| Organisation name | Data Archive for Seabed Species and Habitats (DASSH) | |
| Individual name | Esther Hughes | |
| Position name | Data Manager | |
| Phone | 01752 633102 | |
| dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk | ||
| Dataset constraints | ||
| 20.1 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | This states `otherRestrictions` from ISO vocabulary RestrictionCode and is an INSPIRE/GEMINI requirement. | otherRestrictions |
| 20.2 Limitations on Public Access - Other constraints | This states any limitations on access to the data. Multiple occurences are allowed here. One entry shall be from the INSPIRE Metadata registry and the other free text should be part of the resource `Have specific limitations`. | Not for navigational use; SNH copyright data which is available for re-use under government licence terms: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ |
| 21.1 Conditions for Access and Use - Use constraints | This states `otherRestrictions` from ISO vocabulary RestrictionCode and is an INSPIRE/GEMINI requirement. | otherRestrictions |
| 21.2 Conditions for Access and Use - Other constraints | This states any constraints on use of the data. Multiple conditions can be recorded for different parts of the data resource. If no conditions apply, then `No condtions apply` is recorded. This uses free text. | no restrictions to public access |
| Available data formats | ||
| Data format | Format in which digital data can be provided for transfer | Database (Marine Recorder) |
| Format in which digital data can be provided for transfer | Documents (Published reports) | |
| Format in which digital data can be provided for transfer | Geographic Information System (Shapefiles) | |
| Version info | ||
| Date of publication | The publication date of the resource or if previously unpublished the date that the resource was made publicly available via the MEDIN network. | 2001-02-01 |
| Harvest date | The date which this record has been (re)harvested from the provider. | 2026-04-19 |
| Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2025-05-29 |
| Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN |
| Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | 3.1.2 |