Quillon Harpham, EMODnet North Sea Checkpoint and principal scientist in the Hydrodynamics and Metocean Group at HR Wallingford, presents the main outputs and recommendations from the North Sea Checkpoint Workshop held on the 14th of February 2017, in Brussels during the EMODnet stakeholder conference.

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http://www.emodnet.eu
EMODnet Stakeholder Conference & Sea-basin Workshops
14-15 February 2017
North Sea Checkpoint Panel Meeting
Quillon Harpham, North Sea Checkpoint
EMODnet Sea-basin Checkpoints Results
North Sea Checkpoint Panel Meeting

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The Challenges
Fisheries management: catch by-catch and impact –
but also stock levels and biomass;
Oil spill: perhaps artificial and difficult to simulate
precisely? Focus on improving driving data;
Timing affected some of the challenges.
EMODnet Sea-basin Checkpoints Results
North Sea Checkpoint Panel Meeting

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The Results
Clarity on data access gaps vs monitoring gaps – e.g.
could lack of availability of AIS and VMS data be
addressed by re-processing it?
Fishing basin-wide datasets exist (ICES catch and
landings, EU JRC landings), couldn’t be used uniformly
across the basin;
Data policy and licencing under-emphasised;
The level at which EMODnet offers data (raw vs
derived) is, perhaps, more complex and should be
taken case-by-case.
EMODnet Sea-basin Checkpoints Results
North Sea Checkpoint Panel Meeting

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The Process of Evaluating Identified Data
EMODnet Sea-basin Checkpoints Results
North Sea Checkpoint Panel Meeting
More decisive evaluation of
Candidate datasets

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Catalogue Metadata
ISO19139…
Catalogue Metadata
ISO19139…
Catalogue Metadata
ISO19139…
What is Sensible Standardisation?
EMODnet Sea-basin Checkpoints Results
North Sea Checkpoint Panel Meeting
Supplier Repositories
“Original Source”
Standard file type set
NetCDF
TimeSeriesML
…
Phenomena Vocabularies
CSDMS Standard Names
CF Standard Names
Standard User Feedback
“DataAdvisor”
ISO?
…
Federated Catalogue