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<div>Happy New Year. </div>
<div>The DASSH on-line metadata tool has undergone some changes and is now ready to be signed off in its current form. If you have any comments on this version available at
<a href="http://www.dassh.ac.uk/medin_metadata/login.php" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff"><u>http://www.dassh.ac.uk/medin_metadata/login.php</u></font></a> please send them to me by Tuesday 12<font size="1"><sup>th</sup></font> January. Please note that
further work under a separate contract will be carried out in the 1<font size="1"><sup>st</sup></font> quarter of this year to allow easier testing of the metadata against the schematron, incorporation on the on-line vocab services and other bits.
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<div>Also – there are a number of Data Guidelines in the process of being drafted and as per previously agreed we would like 2-3 people from the MEDIN standards WG to review ones within which they have some expertise before they are sent out more widely. Are
there any volunteers to look at 1 or more of the below? We expect to be able to send most of themout by the end of nex week.If so please contact me.</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Generic sampling techniques:</span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Trawl/dredge sampling</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Static net and pot sampling</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Video survey sampling</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Quadrat/transect sampling</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Photo identification recording</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Visual survey sampling</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Specific packages of techniques:</span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">These use generic methods but require additional data collation ( a collection of techniques and or a specific
methodology that does not fit into the generic techniques very well.</span></font></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></b> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Intertidal biotope mapping</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Sponge thickness monitoring</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Seagrass monitoring</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Seal monitoring</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Dolphin monitoring (inc. the photo monitoring techniques)</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Otter monitoring</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Territorial fish survey</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Litter recording by trawl or video sledge</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Oceanographic CTD Guideline</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Descrete Water Sampling Data</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Guideline for Moored Current Meter Data</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Best Wishes for 2010</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Mark</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font> </p>
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