[Medin_dacwg] clarification from Defra regarding compliance of discovery metadata with GEMINI 2.3 by end FY2019.

[Gaffney, Sean P.]

Dear MEDIN DAC and Standards Working Groups,

I have received clarification recently from Defra around when MEDIN discovery metadata should comply with GEMINI 2.3 for submission to data.gov.uk.

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.

The situation has since evolved and Defra have now provided direct clarification to me on the timings for compliance.

Defra have now informed me that only those records that are part of the European Environment Agency Priority Datasets 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)."

Jason King of Defra, in his communication to me, goes on to say "Although we are aiming at December 2019, going forward we want data.gov.uk<http://data.gov.uk> 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."

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.

If you have any questions on this, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Regards

Sean
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                Dr Sean Gaffney
                Manager, MEDIN Standards and Guidelines Work Stream
                Joseph Proudman Building, 6 Brownlow Street Liverpool L3 5DA
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