Over het archief
Het OWA, het open archief van het Waterbouwkundig Laboratorium heeft tot doel alle vrij toegankelijke onderzoeksresultaten van dit instituut in digitale vorm aan te bieden. Op die manier wil het de zichtbaarheid, verspreiding en gebruik van deze onderzoeksresultaten, alsook de wetenschappelijke communicatie maximaal bevorderen.
Dit archief wordt uitgebouwd en beheerd volgens de principes van de Open Access Movement, en het daaruit ontstane Open Archives Initiative.
Basisinformatie over ‘Open Access to scholarly information'.
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- Natural England, meer, partner
- Scottish Natural Heritage - Headquarters (SNH), meer, partner
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), meer, partner
- English Nature, meer, partner
- Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), meer, partner
- Essex County Council, meer, partner
- Environment Agency; Anglian Region, meer, partner
- Energy Institute, meer, partner
- Hampshire County Council, meer, partner
- The Scottish Executive, meer, partner
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Atlas Purpose
- Provide a flexible resource for national oil spill planning, facilitating
- Seamless multi agency, operational response;
- Audit and contingency planning, consistent with the UK National Contingency Plan (NCP);
- Clean-up management;
- Damage assessment, compensation, responsibilities;
- Provide information on sensitive resources of the UK coastline and its seas to all stakeholders.
- Assist in identification of protection and clean-up priorities.
Distinguishing Features
- A coastal and marine extension of the MAGIC (Multi Agency Geographic Information for the Countryside) website.
- Focussed on oil spill planning.
Target Audience
- Government/Public Bodies;
- Commercial/Industry;
- Consultancies;
- Coastal/Environmental Managers;
- Decision Makers;
Atlas Design and Usability
- Focus:
- Design:
- Clear navigation and instruction;
- Single point(s) of access to map/data;
- Guided navigation
- Map Page:
- View limited layers
- View data independently/by theme;.
- Separate legend & layer lists
- Links to external pages
- Documentation:
- Thematic text;
- Metadata:
- Database
- Single format(s);
- Help page(s);
- Tutorial;
- Standards:
- Metadata standards: ISO 19xxx;
Technology Used
- Mapping Software:
- Proprietary: ESRI ArcIMS;
- Data Storage:
- Locally: SQL Server with ArcSDE;
- Distributed Network: SPIRE database (early 2007);
- Database Management System:
Functionality/Tools Available
- Level:
- Search Capability:
- Search for data
- Search for attributes;
- Other:
- Marine data viewable in ED50 Mercator and GB National Grid.
- Mapping Tools:
- Zoom, recentre and full extent;
- Identify features;
- Layer list control;
- Print/Export maps;
- Query attributes;
- Measure line and areas;
- Download geospatial data.
Data/Cartographic Information Included
- Geographic Area: England, Scotland and Wales;
- Number of Datasets: >100;
- Topics:
- Physical Environment;
- Coastal Habitats;
- Biology;
- Management;
- Conservation;
- Environmental Monitoring;
- Infrastructure;Industry;
- Natural Resources;
- Fisheries, Aquaculture & Agriculture;
- Other: Sensitivity.
Data Issues
- IPR/Cost:
- Cost-prohibitive data (base/other);
- Intellectual Property Rights (IPR);
- Data use restrictions;
- Accessibility:
- Data sourcing and acquisition;
- Poorly managed, inaccessible data;
- Data duplication
- Quality:
- Variable/inconsistent data quality;
- Inappropriate data scales;
- Incomparable regional datasets;
- Poor/non-existent metadata;
- Management:
- Data management plan development;
- Balance of development and update
- Other:
- Over-reliance on personal knowledge for data information.
Other Challenges
- Funding for site maintenance;
- Designing simple, intuitive and informative web interface;
- Content balance of science and information;
- Design of efficient DBMS for content management;
- Other:
- Marine topic new to countryside atlas MAGIC;
- Aligning to MAGIC procedures
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