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<DIV>Hi Mark,<BR></DIV>
<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></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><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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<DIV>Steve Gontarek MSc MBCS CEng CITP<BR>****************************<BR>Head of ICT & Information Services<BR>Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS)<BR>Scottish Marine Institute<BR>Oban, Argyll,<BR>PA37 1QA<BR>Scotland<BR>email: stjg@sams.ac.uk<BR>web: www.sams.ac.uk<BR>Tel: +44 1631 559314<BR>Fax: +44 1631 559001<BR><BR>SAMS is an Academic partner of the UHI Millennium Institute<BR>web: www.uhi.ac.uk<BR><BR>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<BR>The Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) is registered in Scotland as a Company Limited by Guarantee (SC009292) and is a registered charity (9206). There are 2 wholly owned subsidiary companies: SAMS Research Services Ltd a Limited Company (SC224404) and the European Centre for Marine Biotechnology, a Company Limited By Guarantee (SC205318). All Companies in the group are registered in Scotland and share a registered office at Dunstaffnage Marine Laboratory, Oban Argyll PA37 1QA.<BR><BR><BR>The content of this message may contain personal views which are not<BR>the views of SAMS unless specifically stated.<BR><BR>Please note that all email traffic is monitored for purposes of security and spam filtering. As such individual emails may be examined in more detail.<BR></DIV>
<DIV><BR>>>> "Charlesworth, Mark E" <mecha@bodc.ac.uk> 05 January 2010 17:12 >>><BR></DIV>
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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. </DIV>
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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 color=navy size=2 face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Generic sampling techniques:</SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=navy size=2 face=arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Litter recording by trawl or video sledge</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT color=navy size=2 face=arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Mark</SPAN></FONT></P>
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