data guidelines
Data guidelines are sets of requirements that must be recorded when data of a certain type is being collected. The guidelines below are downloadable as a zip file with all required information within. Some guidelines marked * are in the process of being updated to this new format and can be downloaded below and their respective xls templates available here.
Benthic invertebrate sediment sampling by grab or core (15sep11)
Archiving digital images (15sep11)
Offshore litter data by trawl, dredge or towed sledge (15jul10)
Oceanographic vertical profile data (15sep11)
Cetacean sighting and identification (15jul10) *
Fish and benthos by static pot, net or trap (15jul10) *
Shellfish stock assessment (15jul10) *
Fish and benthos by trawl or dredge (15jul10) *
Leisure and recreation (15sep11)
Moored oceanographic instruments (15sep11)
Oceanographic underway transect (15sep11)
Water sample for biology or chemistry (15sep11)
Video tow surveys for species or biotopes
(20jul10) *
Underwater noise (15sep11)
The principle benefits of these standards are to:
• Instill good practice amongst users
• Allow contracting organisations to specify a format that data should be returned in that can be readily used and includes all relevant attributes
• Provide a consistent format for contractors to work to (rather than a different format for each contract)
• Allow easy ingestion of data to Data Archiving Centres
• Improve interoperability between organisations by providing a format which can be used to import and export data.
