A Review of Access to Industry Marine Environmental Data

New report available from the UK Productive Seas Evidence Group (PSEG)

This report may be downloaded from:

http://www.gov.scot/Topics/marine/science/MSCC/PSEG

Summary

This new report, ‘A Review of Access to Industry Marine Environmental Data’ has just been published.

The study was undertaken for PSEG jointly by ABP Marine Environmental Research and Peter Barham Environmental. The work was jointly funded by the Marine Management Organisation, Marine Scotland, MEDIN and The Crown Estate.

The report describes the benefits to the UK which could result from greater use of industry data. The report also identifies barriers to the greater re-use of industry data, which are predominantly focused around (i) raising awareness of what is currently available and (ii) making it easier for industry to deposit data and metadata in appropriate public repositories. These ‘process’ issues seem to be the major hindrance to greater re-use of industry data rather than the basic availability of such data per se.

The suggested citation for the report is as follows:

ABPmer, (2015).  ‘A Review of Access to Industry Environmental Data’. Report to the UK Productive Seas Evidence Group (PSEG), November 2015, 67 pages.

The report may be downloaded from:

http://www.gov.scot/Topics/marine/science/MSCC/PSEG

For further information contact:

Peter Edmonds, The Crown Estate, 16 New Burlington Place, London, W1S 2HX. Tel. 020 7851 5349