1. Wessex Archaeology : Coastal and Marine Engaging with MEDIN in its operational phase November 2011 Tom Dommett Data Management Officer

2. Wessex Archaeology : Coastal and Marine Previous Projects: ARCHIVING ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA TO DATA ARCHIVE CENTRES: A DEMONSTRATION PROJECT (STAGE 1) Archiving Strategy ARCHIVING ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA TO DATA ARCHIVE CENTRES: A DEMONSTRATION PROJECT (STAGE 2) Data Preparation ARCHIVING ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA TO DATA ARCHIVE CENTRES: A DEMONSTRATION PROJECT (STAGE 3) Data Archiving Engaging with MEDIN

3. Wessex Archaeology : Coastal and Marine STAGE 1 – Archiving Strategy Identify a practical approach to the deposition of a range of marine digital datasets acquired for archaeological purposes according to MEDIN priorities Develop a model of data flow which meets the archival requirements of the heritage sector Engaging with MEDIN

4. Wessex Archaeology : Coastal and Marine STAGE 1 – Archiving Strategy Identify a practical approach to the deposition of a range of marine digital datasets acquired for archaeological purposes according to MEDIN priorities Develop a model of data flow which meets the archival requirements of the heritage sector  DACs and data types  Primary and secondary archives Engaging with MEDIN Archive scenario 2 - Scotland – splitting archives – duplicating archives Archive scenario 1 - England

5. Wessex Archaeology : Coastal and Marine STAGE 2 – Data Preparation Assessment of archiving process, practicalities of data preparation and generation of metadata »39 datasets from 5 surveys Preparation according to the specific requirements of the different archive centres »Geophysical/geotechnical datasets – 1.5 days per survey »Diving/ROV datasets – 3 days per survey Conclusions »The need for an archiving strategy to be incorporated/specified at the outset »Dataset granularity, duplication of effort and metadata translation tools »MEDIN Metadata Engaging with MEDIN

6. Wessex Archaeology : Coastal and Marine ESRI ArcCatalog ISO Metadata Wizard and the MEDIN Stylesheet Completion of elements to MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard (2.3.4) »Additional keywords Engaging with MEDIN

7. Wessex Archaeology : Coastal and Marine Keywords –Theme: »INSPIRE »SeaDataNet BDOC Discovery Parameter »NMR Event Type Thesaurus –Place: »ISO3166 Country List »ICES Regions –Temporal: »RCHME Archaeological Periods –Stratum: »SeaVox Vertical Coordinate Coverages Engaging with MEDIN

8. Wessex Archaeology : Coastal and Marine ESRI ArcCatalog ISO Metadata Wizard and the MEDIN Stylesheet Completion of elements to MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard (2.3.4) »Additional keywords Converted to MEDIN-compliant XML using the XSLT ‘EsriIsoToMedin_v1.0’ Transformation tool Validated through the application of the ISO19139 schema, and ‘ISOTS19139A1Constraints_v1.3’ and ‘MedinMetadataProfile_v1.7’ schematrons in XML Editor Engaging with MEDIN

9. Wessex Archaeology : Coastal and Marine Engaging with MEDIN