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yorkshire humber environmental data network
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The current situation
There are currently a number of well established
Local Record Centres in the Yorkshire Humber
region.

• What we do
• Funding primarily from local authorities and
  other local sources.
• Supporting local development control and
  providing local services.
• Bespoke in-house solutions developed locally.
• Founded on well established amateur recording
  bodies like YNU.
• Significant taxonomic and data management
  expertise devolved locally.
• Aspirations
• Support amateur naturalist's community.
• Develop regional best practice for common
  functions and services such as Local Site
  Reporting.
• Feed into regional strategies such as RSS.
• Provide data to NBN Gateway.

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The roadmap

• Phase 1 - Harmonisation - Bring all the LRCs to
  a level of both staffing and funding whereby they
  are able to provide a suite of agreed core
  services based on the NBN Core Services in
  addition to any bespoke local services which they
  currently provide. Implement common processes and
  policies and commit to share data within the LRC
  community.
• Phase 2 - Integration - Provide mechanisms for
  the online delivery of shared data. These
  delivery mechanisms will source data both within
  the LRC network and from external sources such as
  NBNGateway and BARS.
• Phase 3 - Optimisation - Provide added value,
  increases in efficiency and / or cost savings
  through sharing infrastructure and support costs.

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YHEDN aims and objectives

• To provide an efficient means of producing
  regional data products and services.
• To improve the quality and usability of data
  through shared quality assurance standards.
• To provide a means to interact with NBNGateway
  and the National Schemes Societies.
• To provide LRCs access to regional funding
  streams.
• To simplify the contractual relationships with
  key stakeholders (YNU, NE, EA..)?
• To provide cost savings through developing
  services, contracts and processes once.
• To provide cost savings through the use of shared
  infrastructure and support.
• To develop an open data community whereby all
  data donors will benefit through their
  partnership with the network

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YHEDN services

• Local naturalists and naturalist goups.
• Data will be securely managed with a robust
  back-up strategy.
• Data mapped over Google Earth or Google Maps.
• Phenology and distributions compiled live from
  available data to ease production of reports and
  publications.
• Naturalists need only have a single contract with
  1 LRC.
• Local authorities
• Site based data searches draw data from all LRC
  databases aswell as NBN Gateway.
• Multiple sites can be screened against protected
  species and designated sites in a single click
• Local site citations, species lists and
  management information can be compiled
  automatically.
• GIS layers can be loaded live into MapInfo or
  ArcGIS as a backdrop to in-house data.
• Regional Bodies
• YHEDN will compile regional datasets from LRC
  holdings.
• National agencies and statutory duties
• Engagement with NBN Gateway puts LRC data in
  national context

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What we need now

• Partners - The network is not only made up of the
  local record centres but also the providers and
  consumers of its data and so we need the support
  and representation of these groups within the
  network.
• Funding? - The network needs to be established
  and run and ultimately hopes to provide regional
  funding to support the local record centres
  activities, allowing us to address significant
  gaps in taxonomic and geographic coverage.
• Support - At this stage what we would like is a
  formal endorsement of the YHEDN project. We have
  written a statement of support document which can
  be signed without obligating organisations to
  provide funding or services.
• We will use these statements to help sell the
  network to possible funders and to establish the
  level of need and level of desire for the
  network's services.

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More information
yorkshire humber environmental data network

• http//www.humber-edc.org.uk/yhedn
• dan.jones_at_humber-edc.org.uk
• 01652 631 522

YHEDN
LRC Network
NBN Gateway