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Metadata: Across Wales Diving Monitoring Project (2004)
Abstract:
The initial 2 year project was a developmental trial for establishing (i) Methods, (ii) Recording protocols. (iii) Deployment strategies, (iv) Repeatability, (v) Site marking and relocation, (vi) Quality Control for site monitoring. Following on from the initial 2 year project a longer-term project has been established to gather data in order to assess the Special Area of Conservation (SAC) sites for their 'favourable conservation status'. The concept of favourable conservation status is central to the EC Habitats Directive. These SAC sites included five marine Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) around the Welsh coast though only four of these (Menai Strait and Conwy Bay; Pen Llyn a'r Sarnau; Cardigan Bay; and Pembrokeshire Marine) have 'reefs' listed as Annex I 'features'. An ongoing programme of monitoring the reefs in each of these SACs follows the establishment programme.
Data holder:
Natural Resources Wales (NRW)
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| Other details | ||
| Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 8597 |
| 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. | Across Wales Diving Monitoring Project (2004) |
| Alternative title | The purpose of alternative title is to record any additional names by which the dataset may be known. | 2004 CCW/Pelagial/Sea-Scope Cardigan Bay cSAC sublittoral monitoring survey MRCCW3010000000B |
| 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. | NRW_DS109743 |
| Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | 4f4c4942-4343-5764-6473-313039373433 |
| 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 | 2004-05-17 |
| End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2006-03-31 |
| 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'. | annually |
| Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | The initial 2 year project was a developmental trial for establishing (i) Methods, (ii) Recording protocols. (iii) Deployment strategies, (iv) Repeatability, (v) Site marking and relocation, (vi) Quality Control for site monitoring. Following on from the initial 2 year project a longer-term project has been established to gather data in order to assess the Special Area of Conservation (SAC) sites for their 'favourable conservation status'. The concept of favourable conservation status is central to the EC Habitats Directive. These SAC sites included five marine Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) around the Welsh coast though only four of these (Menai Strait and Conwy Bay; Pen Llyn a'r Sarnau; Cardigan Bay; and Pembrokeshire Marine) have 'reefs' listed as Annex I 'features'. An ongoing programme of monitoring the reefs in each of these SACs follows the establishment programme. |
| Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | A variety of methodologies has been designed for monitoring subtidal reef across the SACs, these include diver quadrats and transects, capture of information on images and digital video and the collection of data from loggers. Detailed information about each of the methodologies can be found in the draft CCW Marine Monitoring Report 25b 'Across Wales Diving Monitoring Project Volume 2: Standard operating procedures'. CCW undertook a programme of surveillance on the Pen Llyn a'r Sarnau SAC between 1997 and 2001. These monitoring trials formed the basis of the Terms of Reference for this programme. Further information can be found in the Marine Monitoring Handbook (Davie et al. 2001). Metadata for repeatable sites is described separately. An unrepeated groud-truthing survey was also completed for Cardigan Bay in 2004 in conjunction with the 2004-2005 Across Wales drop-down video survey. Information about the survey can be found in the CCW Marine Monitoring Report 25a 'Across Wales Diving Monitoring Project Volume 1: Site descriptions and results'. |
| Related keywords | ||
| 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 | Species distribution | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | survey methods (survey techniques) (survey) (surveying) | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Common Standards Monitoring (CSM) | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Special Area of Conservation Monitoring | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | surveyors | |
| General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Habitats and Species Directive | |
| 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 | Diving | |
| Geographical coverage | ||
| North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 53.42269429 |
| East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -3.93745029 |
| South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 51.6130445 |
| West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -5.80108602 |
| Regional sea | Wales (WLS) | |
| 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 | Natural Resources Wales (NRW) | |
| Delivery point | Maes-y-Ffynnon, Penrhosgarnedd, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DW, Wales | |
| enquiries@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk | ||
| URL | http://naturalresources.wales/?lang=en | |
| Role | The owner is the person or organisation that owns the resource. | owner |
| Organisation name | Natural Resources Wales (NRW) | |
| Delivery point | Maes-y-Ffynnon, Penrhosgarnedd, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DW, Wales | |
| enquiries@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk | ||
| URL | http://naturalresources.wales/?lang=en | |
| 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 | Natural Resources Wales (NRW) | |
| Delivery point | Maes-y-Ffynnon, Penrhosgarnedd, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DW, Wales | |
| enquiries@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk | ||
| URL | http://naturalresources.wales/?lang=en | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Pelagial Ltd | |
| Delivery point | Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, E14 0JW | |
| info@pelagial.org | ||
| URL | http://www.pelagial.org/ | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Marine Ecological Solutions Ltd | |
| Delivery point | Marine Ecological Solutions Ltd, 41 High Street, Menai Bridge, Ynys Mon, LL59 5EF, Wales | |
| info@marine-ecosol.com | ||
| URL | http://www.marine-ecosol.co.uk | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) | |
| Delivery point | Countryside Council for Wales, Maes y Ffynnon, Penrhosgarnedd, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DW | |
| enquiries@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk | ||
| URL | http://naturalresourceswales.gov.uk/splash?orig=/ | |
| Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
| Organisation name | Sea-Scope, Marine Biological Consultants | |
| Delivery point | Combe Lodge, Bampton, Devon, EX16 9LB, England | |
| robert@sea-scope.co.uk | ||
| URL | <!-- No web site --> | |
| Role | The distributor is the person or organisation that distributes the resource. | distributor |
| Organisation name | Natural Resources Wales (NRW) | |
| Delivery point | Maes-y-Ffynnon, Penrhosgarnedd, Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DW, Wales | |
| enquiries@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk | ||
| URL | http://naturalresources.wales/?lang=en | |
| 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`. | There are no access restrictions on this data. NRW may release, publish or disseminate it freely. |
| no limitations | ||
| 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. | © CNC/NRW 2006. Data may be re-used under the terms of the Open Government Licence providing it is done so, acknowledging both the source and copyright of the owners. It is the recipient's responsibility to ensure the data is fit for the intended purpose. |
| Available data formats | ||
| Data format | Format in which digital data can be provided for transfer | Documents |
| 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. | 2006-03-31 |
| 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. | 2026-03-03 |
| 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 |