[Medin_dacwg] Cost to archive data

[Edmonds, Peter]

Hi Clare,

I'm not sure that this will be all that helpful to be honest. For a £10,000 budget survey 3-5% (£300-500) is not that material, a reasonable number, and could probably be found. However, for a £9m geotechnical survey, 3-5% (£270k - £450k) is certainly material, and most importantly way out! I think that an absolute cost range may be more helpful. Say costs of up to £x would/could be covered by the DAC, but above that there is a sliding scale depending on  the factors you outline in the document up to a ceiling of £y. I would have thought that £500 - £5,000 was reasonable. I certainly can't imagine wanting to spend more than that on data archival.

I also imagine that a suite of examples will be helpful. What might a typical, well-structured hydrographic survey cost to archive vs. what is the maximum could be imagined for a large and poorly structured set of data from a survey? Etc.

As it is I can see industry baulking at the thought of an extra 5% on their already huge costs (we estimate around £30m at risk spend on pre-consent surveying for a typical size offshore wind farm).

Many thanks,

Pete


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From: medin_dacwg-bounces at mailman.nerc-liv.ac.uk [mailto:medin_dacwg-bounces at mailman.nerc-liv.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Postlethwaite, Clare
Sent: Monday, July 20, 2015 9:27 AM
To: medin_dacwg at mailman.nerc-liv.ac.uk
Subject: [Medin_dacwg] Cost to archive data

Dear MEDIN DAC Working Group,

One of the actions on me at last week's meeting was to draft a paragraph on the cost to archive data at DACs. Can you give it a read to check you are happy with the message and that the 3-5% estimate holds for the types of data you deal with. Just to remind you, this was requested by DEFRA, the PSEG " access to industry data" project and to be a FAQ on the MEDIN website. So I'm looking for comments on the text itself and whether it is appropriate to be used for those purposes.

All comments to me please by 27th July.
Best wishes,
Clare



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