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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi All<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is this a stupid question but does anyone know if there is a specific list of datasets classed as a European Environment Agency Priority Datasets? (I am currently trying to find out if NRWs Internal Reporting team know)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I know it may include things like Bathing Water, Natura 2000 sites etc…. Which NRW hold at the Welsh level, however these datasets would be collated at the UK level to supply to the EEA and presumably UK level metadata to the relevant standard
created and supplied by the organisation that provides the data to Europe. Just trying to work out if NRW need to do anything here and what the urgency is.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Monica<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Monica Jones<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Arweinydd Tîm Gwasanaethau Data</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> /
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3B3838;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Data Services Team Leader</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Cyfarwyddiaeth Tystiolaeth, Polisi a Thrwyddedu</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> /
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3B3838;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Evidence, Policy and Permitting Directorate</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#00A0AA;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#3B3838;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Natural Resources Wales</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> <br>
03000 654998<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">07825 450437<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Maes-y-Ffynnon, Bangor<br>
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/ </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://www.naturalresources.wales/?lang=en"><span style="color:#404040">www.naturalresources.wales</span></a><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Yn falch o arwain y ffordd at ddyfodol gwell i Gymru trwy reoli’r amgylchedd ac adnoddau naturiol yn gynaliadwy.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Proud to be leading the way to a better future for Wales by managing the environment and natural resources sustainably.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Croesewir gohebiaeth yn Gymraeg a byddwn yn ymateb yn Gymraeg, heb i hynny arwain at oedi<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#404040;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Correspondence in Welsh is welcomed, and we will respond in Welsh without it leading to a delay<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Gaffney, Sean P. <sgaf@bodc.ac.uk>
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<b>Sent:</b> 15 July 2019 12:19<br>
<b>To:</b> medin_dacwg@mailman.nerc-liv.ac.uk<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Ayliffe, James O. <jamayl@bodc.ac.uk>; Cefas Data Manager mailbox <data.manager@cefas.co.uk>; chelsea.bradbury@thecrownestate.co.uk; james.dargie <james.dargie@nature.scot>; Esther Hughes <esthug@mba.ac.uk>; Evans, Gaynor <gaev@bodc.ac.uk>; Graeme
Duncan <graeme.duncan@jncc.gov.uk>; Robinson, Harriet <Harriet.Robinson@cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk>; Henni, Paul H. <phoh@bgs.ac.uk>; James Cooke <james.cooke@ukho.gov.uk>; James Rapaport <james.rapaport@oceanwise.eu>; Laura Hanley (Cefas) <laura.hanley@cefas.co.uk>;
Lauren Fidler <laufid@mba.ac.uk>; Jones, Monica <Monica.Jones@cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk>; Mowat, Mary R. <mmow@bgs.ac.uk>; natasha.taylor@cefas.co.uk; Oliver Williams (Cefas) <oliver.williams@cefas.co.uk>; Postlethwaite, Clare <cfpo@bodc.ac.uk>; q.harpham@hrwallingford.com;
rona.sinclair <rona.sinclair@nature.scot>; steve.gontarek@sams.ac.uk; Summer Grundy <sumgru@mba.ac.uk>; Thorne, Kay <klt@bodc.ac.uk>; Wright, Roseanna L. <roswri@bodc.ac.uk><br>
<b>Subject:</b> clarification from Defra regarding compliance of discovery metadata with GEMINI 2.3 by end FY2019.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Dear MEDIN DAC and Standards Working Groups,<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 have received clarification recently from Defra around when MEDIN discovery metadata should comply with GEMINI 2.3 for submission to data.gov.uk.
<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 had earlier this year presented to you all my understanding that there was a hard deadline that new records for submission to data.gov.uk must be compliant with GEMINI 2.3 from 1 January 2020. This understanding
was based on feedback from IST/36 and the GEMINI Working Group, who had been in contact with Defra.
<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 situation has since evolved and Defra have now provided direct clarification to me on the timings for compliance.<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">Defra have now informed me that <b>
<u>only those records that are part of the European Environment Agency Priority Datasets</u></b> must be compliant with GEMINI 2.3 by the end of the calendar year 2019. Defra state “In respect of timing of the transition to 2.3, we are fully aware that getting
all of the 23.5k metadata records updated will be an ongoing work in progress beyond December 2019 (the multiple and disparate group of spatial data publishers makes this inevitable).”
<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">Jason King of Defra, in his communication to me, goes on to say “Although we are aiming at December 2019, going forward we want
<a href="http://data.gov.uk">data.gov.uk</a> to be permissive past December: making sure that they can support 2.3, but not requiring it. We want 2.2 records to produce warnings to encourage people to move to 2.3, but not to block harvesting.”<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">For MEDIN therefore, our goal is that we will still aim to provide upgraded versions of the tools (online tool, Metadata Maesto, Schematron, XSD) for you all to create new MEDIN v3.0 records (thereby complying
with GEMINI 2.3) before end 2019, but we will do so in the knowledge that if delivery of the upgraded tools moves into 2020, this will not cause you as metadata creators to fail compliance with data.gov.uk.<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 on this, please do not hesitate to contact me.<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">Regards<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">Sean<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
</span><b><span style="color:#00B0F0;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr Sean Gaffney</span></b><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Manager, MEDIN Standards and Guidelines Work Stream<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> Joseph Proudman Building, 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool L3 5DA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://www.medin.org.uk">www.medin.org.uk</a>; e: <a href="mailto:sgaf@bodc.ac.uk">
<span style="color:blue">sgaf@bodc.ac.uk</span></a>; t: +44 (0) 151 795 4950 <o:p>
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