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SeaVoX is a combined SeaDataNet and MarineXML vocabulary content governance group, it is moderated by BODC (https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/codes_and_formats/seavox/). This polygon data set defines the geographic extent of the terms specified by the SeaVoX vocabulary governance to describe coherent regions of the hydrosphere. It includes land masses enclosing freshwater bodies. The coastline data set used in the shapefile is taken from the World Vector Shoreline data set (scale 1:250,000). Reference for the data set: "polygon data set of the extent of water bodies from the SeaVoX Salt and Fresh Water Body Gazetteer, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/list/C19/current/" The data file follows a hierarchical structure with each region consisting of one or more polygons. This approach was adopted to avoid the need to have overlapping polygons in regions where a sea area included a number of sub-regions, for example the Mediterranean Sea includes the Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea etc.
British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC)
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Other details | ||
Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 3467 |
Title | The title is used to provide a brief and precise description of the dataset such as 'Date', 'Originating organisation/programme', 'Location' and 'Type of survey'. All acronyms and abbreviations should be reproduced in full. | The SeaVoX Salt and Fresh Water Body Gazetteer (v14 published April 2013) |
File Identifier | The File Identifier is a code, preferably a GUID, that is globally unique and remains with the same metadata record even if the record is edited or transferred between portals or tools. | 5b8eddac7f3206685b2d84a10035ae74 |
Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | C19 |
Resource type | The resource type will likely be a dataset but could also be a series (collection of datasets with a common specification) or a service. | dataset |
Start date | This describes the date the resource starts. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2009-11-18 |
End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2019-10-07 |
Spatial resolution | This describes the spatial resolution of the dataset or the spatial limitations of the service. | inapplicable |
Frequency of updates | This describes the frequency with which the resource is modified or updated i.e. a monitoring programme that samples once per year has a frequency that is described as 'annually'. | asNeeded |
Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | SeaVoX is a combined SeaDataNet and MarineXML vocabulary content governance group, it is moderated by BODC (https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/codes_and_formats/seavox/). This polygon data set defines the geographic extent of the terms specified by the SeaVoX vocabulary governance to describe coherent regions of the hydrosphere. It includes land masses enclosing freshwater bodies. The coastline data set used in the shapefile is taken from the World Vector Shoreline data set (scale 1:250,000). Reference for the data set: "polygon data set of the extent of water bodies from the SeaVoX Salt and Fresh Water Body Gazetteer, http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/list/C19/current/" The data file follows a hierarchical structure with each region consisting of one or more polygons. This approach was adopted to avoid the need to have overlapping polygons in regions where a sea area included a number of sub-regions, for example the Mediterranean Sea includes the Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea etc. |
Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | The following gives the level in the structure at which particular regions, which consist of more than one polygon can be found. This level in the structure is given by the polygon's attributes. Attribute: REGION: ARCTIC OCEAN, ATLANTIC OCEAN,BALTIC SEA,INDIAN OCEAN,MEDITERRANEAN REGION,PACIFIC OCEAN,SOUTH CHINA AND EASTERN ARCHIPELAGIC SEAS,SOUTHERN OCEAN,MAINLAND NORTH AMERICA,MAINLAND EUROPE,MAINLAND ASIA Attribute: LEVEL_1:ARAFURA SEA,DAVIS SEA,GREENLAND SEA,GULF OF BOTHNIA,MEDITERRANEAN SEA,NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN,NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN,ROSS SEA,SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN,SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN,TIMOR SEAAttribute: LEVEL_2:MEDITERRANEAN SEA, WESTERN BASIN,MEDITERRANEAN SEA,EASTERN BASIN,NORTHEAST ATLANTIC OCEAN (40W),NORTHEAST PACIFIC OCEAN (180W),NORTHWEST ATLANTIC OCEAN (40W),NORTHWEST PACIFIC OCEAN (180W),SOUTHEAST ATLANTIC OCEAN (20W),SOUTHEAST PACIFIC OCEAN (140W),SOUTHWEST ATLANTIC OCEAN (20W),SOUTHWEST PACIFIC OCEAN (140W)Attribute: LEVEL_3:BERING SEA,CORAL SEA,ENGLISH CHANNEL,JAPAN SEA,NORTH SEA,TASMAN SEA,YELLOW SEA Attribute: LEVEL_4:CARDIGAN BAY,DOVER STRAIT,FIRTH OF CLYDE,LIVERPOOL BAY,NORTH CHANNEL,POOLE BAY,SOLENT,SOLWAY FIRTH Attribute: SUB_REGION:This is the lowest level in the structure. This version of the shapefile corresponds to version 14 of the SeaVoX Salt and Fresh Water Body Gazetteer. This version includes the following updates:1. Joseph Bonaparte Gulf was incorrectly spelt in version 13 of C19, this has now been corrected. It was correctly spelt in version 13 of the SeaVoX Salt and Fresh Water Body Gazetteershapefile data set.2. An additional attribute field 'skos_url' has been added to the shapefile. This provides the web address of the definition of the individual sea areas from the SeaVoX Salt and Fresh Water Body Gazetteer (http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/C19/current/).3. Addition of a missing section of the polygon for the Bering Sea region (around 175E, 58N).4. Change of following names:'Mainland Europe' changed to 'European Mainland', 'Mainland Asia' changed to 'Asian Mainland', 'Mainland North America' changed to 'North America Mainland', 'St Brides Bay' changed to 'St. Brides Bay', 'St George's Channel' changed to 'St. George's Channel' and 'St Magnus Bay' changed to 'St. Magnus Bay'. Changes made in version 13: 1. Inclusion of the FRAM STRAIT. Changes made in version 12: 1. Bellingshausen Sea was wrongly labelled as Bellinghausen Sea in previous versions of the data set. This has now been corrected.2. A section of the Chukchi Sea, in the area 179 degress 20 minutes East; 70 degrees 3 minutes North, was missing in version 11 of the data set. This has been corrected. |
Related keywords | ||
Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Geographical grid systems | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Horizontal spatial co-ordinates | |
Geographical coverage | ||
North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 90 |
East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 99.9999 |
South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -90 |
West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -99.9999 |
Regional sea | Eastern Channel | |
Western Channel and Celtic Sea | ||
Irish Sea | ||
Southern North Sea | ||
Northern North Sea | ||
Minches & Western Scotland | ||
Scottish Continental Shelf | ||
Rockall Trough & Bank | ||
Faroe-Shetland Channel | ||
Atlantic North West Approaches | ||
28E6 | ||
29E6 | ||
30E6 | ||
31E6 | ||
28E7 | ||
29E7 | ||
30E7 | ||
31E7 | ||
28E8 | ||
29E8 | ||
30E8 | ||
31E8 | ||
28E9 | ||
29E9 | ||
30E9 | ||
31E9 | ||
28F0 | ||
29F0 | ||
30F0 | ||
31F0 | ||
28F1 | ||
29F1 | ||
30F1 | ||
31F1 | ||
28F2 | ||
29F2 | ||
30F2 | ||
31F2 | ||
28F3 | ||
29F3 | ||
30F3 | ||
31F3 | ||
Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean Sea) | ||
Aegean Sea (The Archipelago) (Mediterranean Sea) | ||
Alboran Sea (Mediterranean Sea) | ||
Andaman or Burma Sea | ||
Arabian Sea | ||
Arafura Sea (East Indian Archipelago) | ||
Arctic Ocean | ||
Arctic Ocean - Lincoln Sea | ||
Balearic (Iberian) Sea (Mediterranean Sea) | ||
Bali Sea (East Indian Archipelago) | ||
Baltic Sea | ||
Banda Sea (East Indian Archipelago) | ||
Barents Sea | ||
Bass Strait (Great Australian Bight) | ||
Bay of Bengal | ||
Bay of Biscay | ||
Bay of Fundy | ||
Beaufort Sea | ||
Bering Sea | ||
Bismarck Sea | ||
Black Sea | ||
Bristol Channel | ||
Caribbean Sea | ||
Celebes Sea (East Indian Archipelago) | ||
Ceram Sea (East Indian Archipelago) | ||
Chukchi Sea | ||
Coastal Waters of SE Alaska and British Columbia | ||
Coral Sea | ||
Davis Strait | ||
East Indian Archipelago (Indonesia) | ||
East Siberian Sea | ||
Eastern China Sea (Tung Hai) | ||
English Channel | ||
Flores Sea (East Indian Archipelago) | ||
Great Australian Bight | ||
Greenland Sea | ||
Gulf of Aden | ||
Gulf of Alaska | ||
Gulf of Aqaba | ||
Gulf of Boni (East Indian Archipelago) | ||
Gulf of Bothnia (Baltic Sea) | ||
Gulf of California | ||
Gulf of Finland (Baltic Sea) | ||
Gulf of Guinea | ||
Gulf of Iran (Persian Gulf) | ||
Gulf of Mexico | ||
Gulf of Oman | ||
Gulf of Riga (Baltic Sea) | ||
Gulf of St. Lawrence | ||
Gulf of Suez | ||
Gulf of Thailand (Siam) | ||
Gulf of Tomini (East Indian Archipelago) | ||
Halmahera Sea (East Indian Archipelago) | ||
Hudson Bay | ||
Hudson Strait | ||
Indian Ocean | ||
Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland | ||
Ionian Sea (Mediterranean Sea) | ||
Irish Sea and St. George's Channel | ||
Japan Sea | ||
Java Sea (East Indian Archipelago) | ||
Kara Sea | ||
Kattegat, Sound and Belts | ||
Labrador Sea (Davis Strait) | ||
Laccadive Sea | ||
Laptev Sea (or Nordenskjold Sea) | ||
Ligurian Sea (Mediterranean Sea) | ||
Makassar Strait (East Indian Archipelago) | ||
Malacca Strait | ||
Malacca and Singapore Straits | ||
Mediterranean Sea | ||
Mediterranean Sea - Eastern basin | ||
Mediterranean Sea - Western basin | ||
Molukka Sea (East Indian Archipelago) | ||
Mozambique Channel (Indian Ocean) | ||
North Atlantic Ocean | ||
North Pacific Ocean | ||
North Sea | ||
Norwegian Sea | ||
Philippine Sea | ||
Red Sea | ||
Rio de La Plata | ||
Savu Sea (East Indian Archipelago) | ||
Sea of Azov | ||
Sea of Marmara | ||
Sea of Okhotsk | ||
Seto Naikai or Inland Sea | ||
Singapore Strait | ||
Skagerrak | ||
Solomon Sea | ||
South Atlantic Ocean | ||
South China Sea (Nan Hai) | ||
South Pacific Ocean | ||
Strait of Gibraltar (Mediterranean Sea) | ||
Sulu Sea (East Indian Archipelago) | ||
Tasman Sea | ||
The Northwestern Passages | ||
The Northwestern Passages - Baffin Bay | ||
Timor Sea (East Indian Archipelago) | ||
Tyrrhenian Sea (Mediterranean Sea) | ||
White Sea | ||
Yellow Sea (Hwang Hai) | ||
Responsible organisations | ||
Role | The point of contact is person or organisation with responsibility for the creation and maintenance of the metadata for the resource. | pointOfContact |
Organisation name | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network | |
Individual name | Gaynor Evans | |
Position name | MEDIN Core Team | |
Role | The distributor is the person or organisation that distributes the resource. | distributor |
Organisation name | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network | |
Position name | Core Team | |
Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
Organisation name | British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) | |
Individual name | Roy Lowry | |
Delivery point | Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street | |
Postal code | L3 5DA | |
City | Liverpool | |
Role | The custodian is the person or organisation that accepts responsibility for the resource and ensures appropriate care and maintenance. If a dataset has been lodged with a Data Archive Centre for maintenance then this organisation is be entered here. | custodian |
Organisation name | British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) | |
Individual name | Pauline Weatherall | |
Delivery point | Joseph Proudman Building 6 Brownlow Street | |
Postal code | L3 5DA | |
City | Liverpool | |
Resource locators | ||
Locator URL | Web address (URL) that links to the resource | http://www.marineregions.org/downloads.php#seavox |
Dataset constraints | ||
20 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | ISO restriction code chosen from ISO 19115-1 Codelist | otherRestrictions |
20 Limitations on Public Access – Other constraints | Any restriction on the use of the resource such as the need to agree to certain licence conditions. | unrestricted |
21 Conditions for Access and Use - Use limitation | Any restrictions imposed on accessing the resource such as the need to agree to certain licence conditions. | Data is freely available for research or commercial use providing that the originators are acknowledged in any publications produced. |
Available data formats | ||
Data format | Format in which digital data can be provided for transfer | Geographic Information System |
Version info | ||
Date of publication | The publication date of the resource or if previously unpublished the date that the resource was made publicly available via the MEDIN network. | 2013-04-30 |
Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2014-12-11 |
Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN Discovery metadata standard |
Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | 2.3.8 |
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