b92768ff90ca5e0f9744ec251d6ea4e1 English series The Marine Biological Association and DASSH Becky Seeley, Jon Parr, Jayne Evans and Dan Lear pointOfContact 2009-05-06 MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard Version 2.3.5 urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::4326 OGP 2008, COWRIE, Establishing best practice for documentation and dissemination of marine biological data 2008-09-08 publication 2008-01-01 creation 3198 http://data.offshorewind.co.uk/ This report is a review of aspects of documenting and disseminating marine biological data. In January 2007 two separate workshops were held one looking at marine biological data standards and the second on image and video standards. This report continues the work of these workshops in establishing guidance for best practice in documenting and disseminating marine biological data.The aim of the report is to put forward a number of ideas for discussion to facilitate more efficient and effective flow of data between contractors and data commissioners and between data providers and archive centres. The Crown Estate +44 020 7851 5000 16 New Burlington Place London W1S 2HX United Kingdom enquiries@thecrownestate.co.uk http://www.thecrownestate.co.uk custodian Becky Seeley, Jon Parr, Jayne Evans and Dan Lear Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom Citadel Hill Plymouth Devon PL1 2PB United Kingdom sec@mba.ac.uk http://www.mba.ac.uk/ originator notPlanned pdf Marine Environmental Data and Information Network Metadata record availability 2012-01-11T07:46:54 revision Research The Crown Estate Renewable Energy Development Phases 2012-05-15T02:00:03 revision Research and Development Activity The Crown Estate Renewable Energy Development Areas 2012-05-15 revision 1 no conditions apply eng biota environment -9.33312855790775 2.68743327033997 49.0399981037863 60.7672028638749 2008-09-08 2008-09-08 Origin: The Marine Biological Association and DASSH http://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/search?q=#fq=fq%3DProject%253Amdecowrie100 download https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk/details/244/summary A link to the web service or dataset. https://www.marinedataexchange.co.uk A link to the general host site. dataset Well documented methodologies are an important component of harmonised data. Although there are projects currently documenting protocols, there is a lack of consistent quality between protocols and some guidance on best practice for documenting and managing protocols is provided. The report includes a brief review of current work in collating protocols, prior to looking at the key information required to document methodologies. Data requirements were reviewed by data collection methods and a checklist of essential metadata and archiving formats has been provided. Examples of data standards are provided, collated from organizations attending the original workshops have also been collated. This report reviews different data formats and some minimum and recommended standards are suggested. A number of areas requiring further clarification are identified and recommendations for future work are also made.