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<div>Dear MEDIN DAC Working Group,</div>
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<div>I am following up on actions from the last DAC WG meeting in December (and ongoing actions from earlier meetings).</div>
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<div>Please could you review the list of actions below and report on progress for any actions that apply to you.</div>
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<div>Many thanks,</div>
<div>Robin</div>
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<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">1.</span></font></td>
<td><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">Following Clare/Lesley review,<b> </b>send a template to DACs that lists UKDMOS monitoring programmes; DACs to check list and identify the programmes where DACs should be/are publishing and where other services
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<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">2.</span></font></td>
<td><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">Lesley and Robin to complete DAC reaccreditation work by end of 2015.</span></font></td>
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<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">3.</span></font></td>
<td><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">Dan Lear to plan and arrange provisional date for a technical workshop. Need to be able to report progress on this at next MEDIN Exec (3<font size="1"><span style="font-size:6pt;"><sup>rd</sup></span></font> Dec).</span></font></td>
<td><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">Done. Workshop on 19 Jan 2016.</span></font></td>
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<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">4.</span></font></td>
<td><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">Clare to draft a short statement for MEDIN Exec detailing the DAC view on archiving products. DACs could archive a fixed product but would prefer to focus on getting data into archive so that products can be created.
The DACs approve of the concept of signposting existing products.</span></font></td>
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<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">5.</span></font></td>
<td><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">The funding of small scale (£5k) projects has been extended. DACs to submit proposals for additional projects to Clare by 13<font size="1"><span style="font-size:6pt;"><sup>th</sup></span></font> November 2015.
Decision on funding by end of November, projects completed by end of 2015/16.</span></font></td>
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<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">6.</span></font></td>
<td><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">DACs to check the annual report and feedback any corrections to Lesley (by end December).</span></font></td>
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<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">7.</span></font></td>
<td><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">Dan Lear to check the statistics for DASSH in the annual report and feedback corrections to Lesley (by end December).</span></font></td>
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<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">8.</span></font></td>
<td><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">DACs provide input to Hannah Williams to indicating which INSPIRE themes are applicable to their data to include on MEDIN website</span></font></td>
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<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">9.</span></font></td>
<td><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">Clare to check with Joanna Whittle if MEDIN is still to be the conduit for Cefas FishDAC data to data.gov.</span></font></td>
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<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">10.</span></font></td>
<td><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">Jens to attempt to re-engage NI with the FishDAC.</span></font></td>
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<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">11.</span></font></td>
<td><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">Dan to advise the IFCAs of the MEDIN workshops and raise possibility of running a tailored workshop.</span></font></td>
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<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">12.</span></font></td>
<td><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">Those DACs (BGS, BODC, DASSH, Met Office) that have indicated they would archive data need to submit a proposal to say which data sets they will archive and what the cost would be. The deadline for submitting
the proposal is 18<font size="1"><span style="font-size:6pt;"><sup>th</sup></span></font> December and the work should be carried out by the end of the FY.</span></font></td>
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<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">13.</span></font></td>
<td><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">Clare to make MEDIN Exec aware that progress is being made on archiving some of the MDE data sets but that there are others that are not covered.</span></font></td>
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<td><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">DASSH to provide feedback on the proposed options in Paper P6, with a view to how their helpdesk would cope (by end December).</span></font></td>
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<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">15.</span></font></td>
<td><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">Lesley and Clare to follow up website improvements with Hannah and come to next DAC meeting with a revised plan for improvements.</span></font></td>
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<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">16.</span></font></td>
<td><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">DACs to look for Defra data in their holdings that meet these criteria and let Clare know (by 3 December for number of data sets and 18 December for completion of spreadsheet – see e-mail of 1 December from Clare).
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<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">17.</span></font></td>
<td><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">Robin to poll for dates in April 2016.</span></font></td>
<td><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">Done. DAC WG on 28 April 2016</span></font></td>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><b>Actions outstanding from DAC WG meeting held on 14</b><font size="1"><span style="font-size:7.3pt;"><b><sup>th</sup></b></span></font><b> July 2015</b></div>
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<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">1.</span></font></td>
<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">Clare and Mary to decide on deadline for MCZ/MPA draft plan and costing.</span></font></td>
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<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">3.</span></font></td>
<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">Clare to circulate the portal specification and user requirements to the DAC Working Group.</span></font></td>
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<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">5.</span></font></td>
<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">Hannah to include relevant RCAHMS information on the MEDIN web page.</span></font></td>
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<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">13.</span></font></td>
<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">Hannah to request 4 images from each DAC and give information on the format required. Then to mock up some pages and circulate them before the next meeting.</span></font></td>
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<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">14.</span></font></td>
<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">Hannah to consider suggestions for meeting for improving DAC webpage and decide on improvements to make.</span></font></td>
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<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">15.</span></font></td>
<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;padding-left:0.15pt;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">Clare to arrange an autumn workshop in Scotland with MPA organisations to ensure suitable data management plans are in place. Should involve BGS, DASSH,
JNCC, SNH, Marine Scotland, Natural England and any other DACs that are interested.</span></font></td>
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<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">18.</span></font></td>
<td align="left" style="text-align:justify;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;">Clare to speak to JNCC about possibility of them becoming a Bird DAC.</span></font></td>
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<div>Dr. Robin McCandliss</div>
<div>British Oceanographic Data Centre</div>
<div>National Oceanography Centre</div>
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<div>6 Brownlow Street</div>
<div>Liverpool L3 5DA</div>
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