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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Tahoma" color="#000000" size="2">Hi Steve,</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">As long as you fill in all the mandatory fields in the tool then the xml that you export will be MEDIN complient. If you are happy to use the schematron then please do so but if you like you can send the xml to Hannah (<a href="mailto:haee@bodc.ac.uk">haee@bodc.ac.uk</a>)
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">In the not to distant future there will be functionality to test the metadata you produce against the schematron within the tool.</font></div>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">Thanks for the offer of reviewing data guidelines - I will await further response and then allocate.</font></div>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> Steven Gontarek [Steven.Gontarek@sams.ac.uk]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 06 January 2010 09:10<br>
<b>To:</b> medin_standards@mailman.nerc-liv.ac.uk; Charlesworth, Mark E<br>
<b>Cc:</b> mn.jones@ccw.gov.uk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Medin_standards] FW: Metadata Tool and Data Guidelines<br>
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<div>Hi Mark,<br>
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<div>As you might be aware I am running two MEDIN funded data rescue projects here at SAMS (one dealing with fisheries trawl data and the other with Plankton Net sampling) , and it would be very useful to use this to help generate the Metadata records for the
generated datasets. Of course I appreciate though that this portal probably still requires a bit of testing, but it might be useful to see how it handles datasets generated in the 70's (where there is sometimes limited metadata information):at the very least
it would probably help generate the bulk of each metadata record I need. I guess the schematron will help identify the areas that are lacking</div>
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<div>Regarding the data guidelines. Not being a scientist, but more of a general ICT & data management specialist I'm not sure I could provide full expertise in some of the generic sampling techniques, but I have dealt with quite a bit of data from some of
these types of surveys and I have plenty of experts about that I can query, so if you do not have any takers for the following, I'm willing to have a look at
<strong>one or two</strong> (not ALL) of them:</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Trawl/dredge sampling</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"><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"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Video survey sampling</span></font></p>
<font face="Arial" color="navy"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">
<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">Discrete Water Sampling Data</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"></span></font><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><font color="#000000">Regarding February's meeting in London, I fully intend to make that, and along with my two MEDIN projects, I also have a Scottish MEDIN
group meeting in Edinburgh at Victoria Quay on Jan 29th, so I should be in a bit more of a MEDIN mode this year !</font></span></p>
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>>> "Charlesworth, Mark E" <mecha@bodc.ac.uk> 05 January 2010 17:12 >>><br>
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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>
<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">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>
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