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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The hack day is now next week. Thanks to those who’ve confirmed their attendance, there’s still room for 1 or 2 more if any of the other DAC’s want to participate?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">We will have some cloud servers set up in advance of the event, as well as a CSW and (hopefully) a database copy of all the MEDIN metadata on the portal, plus a (small) goody bag from Digital Ocean who have kindly
agreed to support the event.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Other than that, please bring your talent and creativity and we’ll see what can be achieved in two half days!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Any questions, please get in touch,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Dan Lear
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<b>Sent:</b> 26 September 2016 16:54<br>
<b>To:</b> Jens.Rasmussen@scotland.gsi.gov.uk; Mike Hall; Kieran.Bell@thecrownestate.co.uk; Joanna Whittle (Cefas); chwood@bodc.ac.uk; thogar@bodc.ac.uk; dieg@bgs.ac.uk; peter.mckeague@rcahms.gov.uk; Wojtaszekova, Katerina; Brendan Lally (Cefas) (brendan.lally@cefas.co.uk)<br>
<b>Cc:</b> 'Clare Postlethwaite'; Williams, Hannah R. (hanwil@bodc.ac.uk); 'JPAR@mba.ac.uk'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: MEDIN DAC Hack Day<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The MEDIN hack-day is approaching rather quickly, so it’s probably a good time to send out a bit more information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">As stated below, the event will run over 2 half-days (21 & 22<sup>nd</sup> November) at the same venue as last time in London.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">We will hopefully have a cloud platform to deploy to and develop on, helping with the visibility and usability.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The theme of the hack is “Making the Most of MEDIN Metadata”, which hopefully gives us a steer but leaves plenty of scope interpretation!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Some initial ideas/suggestions from Jens included:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">Possible data visualisations:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">- What is the age profile of marine data on MEDIN?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">- Spatial density of data (coarse – by bounding box)
<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">- Word clouds of vocabulary keywords scaled by use<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">- Connectivity map of organisations, data, keywords, types, and other controlled vocabulary classifications<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">If several groups work on these visualisations, they could ultimately get put together in a digital MEDIN info-graph
<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">More programmatic/analytical products:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">- Evaluating online access for MEDIN data – crunching numbers and records for access, potentially refined by including other sources of information as well<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">- Finding gaps in MEDIN data cover, by applying the BODC SKOS vocabulary structure, you can analyse connectivity of metadata across many linked topics within this structure. Thus, data sets can have a “distance”
from a given topic defined, and by iterating over all the metadata and keyword uses, you should be able to also locate concepts/keywords within the linked vocabularies that are less well covered – a strategic support tool for broadening the marine data available,
driven by the data itself.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">- Alternative designs of metadata use. We all use metadata in a very technical way – but there is a wealth of information that could be presented in wildly different ways. E.g. you could distil topics into
certain designs and only use some of the content to provide different design for presenting the information.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">If you have any ideas, suggestions or questions please let me know or share them here.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">All the best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Dan Lear
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<b>Sent:</b> 10 June 2016 13:24<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Jens.Rasmussen@scotland.gsi.gov.uk'; Mike Hall; 'Kieran.Bell@thecrownestate.co.uk'; 'Joanna Whittle (Cefas)'; 'chwood@bodc.ac.uk'; 'thogar@bodc.ac.uk'; 'dieg@bgs.ac.uk'; 'peter.mckeague@rcahms.gov.uk'; 'Wojtaszekova, Katerina'; Brendan Lally (Cefas)
(<a href="mailto:brendan.lally@cefas.co.uk">brendan.lally@cefas.co.uk</a>)<br>
<b>Cc:</b> 'Clare Postlethwaite'; Williams, Hannah R. (<a href="mailto:hanwil@bodc.ac.uk">hanwil@bodc.ac.uk</a>); 'JPAR@mba.ac.uk'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: MEDIN DAC Hack Day<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Just want to give you all an early “heads-up” that we’re planning another MEDIN Hack Day. Hopefully this time around we will dispense with the preliminaries and get straight into messing around with data/tools
to come up with some more great examples of what can be done with MEDIN-DAC-hosted and associated data.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The date for your diaries is 21/22 November and it will be held at the same venue in London. With the event spanning an afternoon/early evening and the next morning there will be more time to discuss and develop
our ideas, including a chance to chat and ponder over dinner and a drink or 2.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">We’re still working on a theme/focus for the outputs, but if any of you have suggestions please let me know.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">After the last event we got some really helpful feedback about how the event could be better next time around, we’ll be acting on this, but equally if you have some comments now, please let me know.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I’ll keep you all updated as plans progress.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">All the best,<br>
Dan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Dan Lear
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<b>Sent:</b> 20 January 2016 11:41<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Jens.Rasmussen@scotland.gsi.gov.uk'; Mike Hall; 'Kieran.Bell@thecrownestate.co.uk'; 'Joanna Whittle (Cefas)'; 'chwood@bodc.ac.uk'; 'thogar@bodc.ac.uk'; 'dieg@bgs.ac.uk'; 'peter.mckeague@rcahms.gov.uk'; 'Wojtaszekova, Katerina'; Brendan Lally (Cefas)
(<a href="mailto:brendan.lally@cefas.co.uk">brendan.lally@cefas.co.uk</a>)<br>
<b>Cc:</b> 'Clare Postlethwaite'; Williams, Hannah R. (<a href="mailto:hanwil@bodc.ac.uk">hanwil@bodc.ac.uk</a>)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: MEDIN DAC Hack Day<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi Everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I just wanted to say a big “Thank you” for all the enthusiasm and work yesterday. I think we can call the day a big success and will hopefully be the first of many such future events.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">If you have any feedback on the day, ideas for how it could be improved in the future, or just some (vaguely relevant) random thoughts, then please let me know.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">It was a pleasure to meet those of you I haven’t met before and I hope you all had safe journeys home.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks again, and best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Dan Lear
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<b>Sent:</b> 12 January 2016 07:58<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Jens.Rasmussen@scotland.gsi.gov.uk'; Mike Hall; 'Kieran.Bell@thecrownestate.co.uk'; 'Joanna Whittle (Cefas)'; 'chwood@bodc.ac.uk'; 'thogar@bodc.ac.uk'; 'dieg@bgs.ac.uk'; 'peter.mckeague@rcahms.gov.uk'; 'Wojtaszekova, Katerina'<br>
<b>Cc:</b> 'Clare Postlethwaite'; Williams, Hannah R. (<a href="mailto:hanwil@bodc.ac.uk">hanwil@bodc.ac.uk</a>)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: MEDIN DAC Hack Day<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Next Tuesday is the Hack Day. So a few more bits of information ahead of the event.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Directions to the venue are attached.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Some people have asked about hardware/resources that will be available. Hopefully most people will bring laptops that they can develop on, plus we can provide FTP and SSH access to the DASSH webservers (PHP/MySQL/PostgreSQL).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The longer-term plan is promote the outputs through a section of the MEDIN (or relevant DAC) website and potentially on GitHub/Google Code.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">A couple more potential data sources for the day have been identified:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://marinedata.scotland.gov.uk/">http://marinedata.scotland.gov.uk/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://maps.oceanwise.eu/wrecks/medin/">http://maps.oceanwise.eu/wrecks/medin/</a> (will try and get access to the native WMS/WFS for the day)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Any questions let me know,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">All the best,<br>
Dan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Dan Lear
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<b>Sent:</b> 07 January 2016 12:21<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Jens.Rasmussen@scotland.gsi.gov.uk'; Mike Hall; 'Kieran.Bell@thecrownestate.co.uk'; 'Joanna Whittle (Cefas)'; 'chwood@bodc.ac.uk'; 'thogar@bodc.ac.uk'; 'dieg@bgs.ac.uk'; 'peter.mckeague@rcahms.gov.uk'; Wojtaszekova, Katerina<br>
<b>Cc:</b> 'Clare Postlethwaite'; Williams, Hannah R. (<a href="mailto:hanwil@bodc.ac.uk">hanwil@bodc.ac.uk</a>)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: MEDIN DAC Hack Day<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Just a couple more weeks until the Hack Day, so here are some more details.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Can I ask that each participant prepares a brief, 5 minute presentation. These presentations will be given at the start of the day and will serve as an introduction, a brief history of (relevant) projects they’ve
been involved in, and also any ideas or suggestions they have for products/outputs we could aim to create within the day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Cefas now may not be able to attend, however the data resources at
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://data.cefas.co.uk">http://data.cefas.co.uk</a> are available to us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Can I please ask that you let me know if you have any special dietary requirements by the end of this week.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">Finally, the consultation for the redevelopment of the MEDIN Portal is underway. The company co-ordinating the consultation will be asking for our feedback during the meeting (either just after
or just before lunch), this will only take 30 mins max, so will not impact on our work significantly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">If you have any questions or queries, please let me know and I’ll do my best to answer them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D">All the best,<br>
Dan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Dan Lear
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<b>Sent:</b> 18 December 2015 10:14<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Jens.Rasmussen@scotland.gsi.gov.uk'; Mike Hall; 'Kieran.Bell@thecrownestate.co.uk'; 'Joanna Whittle (Cefas)'; 'chwood@bodc.ac.uk'; 'thogar@bodc.ac.uk'; 'dieg@bgs.ac.uk'; 'peter.mckeague@rcahms.gov.uk'<br>
<b>Cc:</b> 'Clare Postlethwaite'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: MEDIN DAC Hack Day<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The MEDIN Hack Day/Technical Workshop is now just over a month away.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">In addition to the datasets listed previously (<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/medinoceansofdata/">https://sites.google.com/site/medinoceansofdata/</a> ), Peter McKeague of RCAHMS/Historic Environment
Scotland has sent these:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">--<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="https://canmore.org.uk/content/temporary-download-page">https://canmore.org.uk/content/temporary-download-page</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The statutory data for the Scottish Historic Marine Protected Areas may be downloaded from
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/hes/web/f?p=PORTAL:SPATIALDOWNLOADS:::::DATASET:HESALL">http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/hes/web/f?p=PORTAL:SPATIALDOWNLOADS:::::DATASET:HESALL</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">--<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">My suggestion, given the attendee’s we have and their affiliations, is to look at a Scotland-centric use case/demonstration, alongside a UK-wide or England/Wales one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">In preparation for the day we (DASSH) are currently adding more biodiversity data to our WFS, including the Crab Atlas of the NW Atlantic, the recently digitised 1957 Plymouth Marine Fauna and Natural England’s
MCZ monitoring data.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">If you have any ideas or suggestions to what questions we can address by combining some of the available data into useful products on the day, then please ‘reply all’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">We won’t have a huge amount of time available, as we plan to start at 11 and finish by 5, so any preparatory work you can do would be useful.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Cheers & Happy Christmas,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Dan Lear
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<b>Sent:</b> 19 November 2015 22:16<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Jens.Rasmussen@scotland.gsi.gov.uk'; Mike Hall; 'Kieran.Bell@thecrownestate.co.uk'; 'Joanna Whittle (Cefas) (<a href="mailto:Joanna.Whittle@cefas.co.uk">Joanna.Whittle@cefas.co.uk</a>)';
<a href="mailto:chwood@bodc.ac.uk">chwood@bodc.ac.uk</a>; <a href="mailto:thogar@bodc.ac.uk">
thogar@bodc.ac.uk</a>; <a href="mailto:dieg@bgs.ac.uk">dieg@bgs.ac.uk</a>; <a href="mailto:peter.mckeague@rcahms.gov.uk">
peter.mckeague@rcahms.gov.uk</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> 'Clare Postlethwaite'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> MEDIN DAC Hack Day<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks to all who’ve responded.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I can now confirm the DAC Technical Workshop/’Hackathon’ will take place on:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">Tuesday 19<sup>th</sup> January 2016</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">at University of Liverpool, Finsbury Square, London.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Confirmed to attend we have:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">Jens Rasmussen (Marine Scotland)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">Peter McKeague (RCAHMS/Historic Environment Scotland)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">Thomas Gardner (BODC)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">Diego Diaz Doce (BGS)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">Chris Wood (BODC)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">Mike Hall (MBA)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">Joanna Whittle (Cefas)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">Kieran Bell (TCE)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:#1F497D">Dan Lear (MBA)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">For those not at the recent MEDIN DAC Working Group meeting, the aim of this workshop is to show-case what can be achieved by combining data from 2 (or more) MEDIN DACs into a “product” that is of use or interest
to the public and/or policy makers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">We’ve thrown together a couple of initial webpages here -
<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/medinoceansofdata/">https://sites.google.com/site/medinoceansofdata/</a> that were original done back in 20013 when this event was first discussed. The main bit of interest is the list of “Data Sources and Services” where
there’s a first attempt at listing some of the potential sources of data we can use. If you know of any others please let me know.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">There’s also a forum where we can throw some ideas around ahead of the workshop.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I’ll email more details soon, but please get the date in your diary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">If you have any questions, please get in touch.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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