How MEDIN supports Marine PlanningDr Mike Osborne, OceanWise Ltd

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Marine Planning

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Marine Acts paved way forMSP in UK Waters

MMO, Marine Scotland, WAG, DOENI

Strategic Scoping Exercise to Mar 2011 (MMO)

Planning for two areas from Apr 2011 (England)

Benefits: Delivers marine policy objectives Link with licensing, conservation and enforcement Cohesive with terrestrial, estuarine and coastal plans Consistent, evidence based decision making

Source: MMO

Marine Planning Inputs

Data

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Spatial Reference and Application Data

Mineral Resources

Energy Resources

Human Pressures

Sensitivities

Sustainability

Data Gaps and Conflicts

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Data

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MEDIN Resources

Network to encourage and facilitate data sharing

Data focal point for policy makers and planners

Contractual clauses for data exchange

Standard for metadata and tools for its creation

Vocabularies for consistency and understanding

Portal to discover data

Support for the creation of reference data

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BreakoutSession- Reference Data

Call for proposals in 2009

Presentations from supported projects

Key questions for session. Should MEDIN:

Leave reference data to the market?

Engage with competent authorities?

Design and provide tools to create reference data

Support reference data creation and dissemination

Act to make reference data freely available?

Money does not appear to be the issue! So what is?

Suggested Next Steps (1):

• Building a marine evidence base is a big ask• Gaps in available data and other information risk

undermining the credibility of marine plans• A marine data policy and strategy to create,

support and improve reference data is essential• A framework for best practice data management,

sharing and strengthening must be put in place• Only practical means of gathering activity data is

by encouraging and assisting stakeholders in this task

• Authorities must take on responsibility of providing good data – their contribution to the evidence base

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Suggested Next Steps (2):

• Build on and support MMO’s data strengthening initiative

• Identify and engage with competent authorities and existing ‘evidence’ programmes (MCZ, Fishermap)

• Set up SLAs based on current Government guidance for data sharing, transparency and linking

• Design data catalogue and product specifications• Put in place process of support and maintenance• Develop and support improvement programme• Make reference data accessible via MEDIN portal

using existing or forthcoming resources (e.g. MAGIC)

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SOA Model for Managing & Sharing Reference Data

Government Services

UKHO

Data submitted to MEDIN DACs

Bathymetry

BGS

Geology Wrecks

UKHO Competent Authorities

Other Data

OptimisedProducts

NMR

EH

Habitat

JNCC

Shared IT Services (Defra / UKLP / MEDIN)

Users

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MMO GIS SPIRIT

General Purpose Map Viewer Defra / MMOSPIRIT

General Purpose Map Viewer Defra / MMOSPIRIT

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INFORMATION STRATEGIES FOR MARINE PLANNING

2 SEP 2010, LONDON

ORGANISED AGI / IMARESTJOINT MARINE AND COASTAL MAPPING AND PLANNING

SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP