Comparison with "JNCC data from ESAS"

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There is one dataset on OBIS that seems to contain ESAS data: https://obis.org/dataset/8426d16e-cb66-4b6e-8d3c-d8e8b977fc79 published from this IPT.

It should be investigated in what sense the dataset overlaps with the now official ESAS dataset published via this GitHub repository.

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Records

1,122,886 records, covering 1979-06-29 to 2000-09-24

Fields

• [x] id: 427_853616, etc.
• [x] type: all Event
• [x] modified: 2007-12-05 16:05:31, etc.
• [x] license: all http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
• [x] bibliographicCitation: all [{"crossref":{"citeinfo":{"origin":"Stone, C. J., A. Webb, C. Barton, N. Ratcliffe, T.C. Reed, M.L. Tasker, C.J. Camphuysen, and M.W. Pienkowski","pubdate":"1995","title_html":"An atlas of seabird distribution in north-west European waters","title":"An atlas of seabird distribution in north-west European waters","serinfo":{"sername":"Joint Nature Conservation Committee report, Peterborough, ISBN 1 873701 94 2"}}}},{"crossref":{"citeinfo":{"origin":"Halpin, P.N., A.J. Read, E. Fujioka, B.D. Best, B. Donnelly, L.J. Hazen, C. Kot, K. Urian, E. LaBrecque, A. Dimatteo, J. Cleary, C. Good, L.B. Crowder, and K.D. Hyrenbach","pubdate":"2009","title_html":"OBIS-SEAMAP: The world data center for marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle distributions","title":"OBIS-SEAMAP: The world data center for marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle distributions","serinfo":{"sername":"Oceanography","issue":"22(2):104-115"},"onlink":"http:\/\/www.tos.org\/oceanography\/article\/obis-seamap-the-world-data-center-for-marine-mammal-sea-bird-and-sea-turtle"}}}] Halpin, P.N., A.J. Read, E. Fujioka, B.D. Best, B. Donnelly, L.J. Hazen, C. Kot, K. Urian, E. LaBrecque, A. Dimatteo, J. Cleary, C. Good, L.B. Crowder, and K.D. Hyrenbach. 2009. OBIS-SEAMAP: The world data center for marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle distributions. Oceanography 22(2):104-115
• [ ] references: all empty
• [x] datasetID: all 427
• [x] institutionCode: all European Seabirds at Sea
• [x] collectionCode: all 427
• [x] datasetName: all JNCC seabird distribution and abundance data (all trips) from ESAS database
• [x] ownerInstitutionCode: all European Seabirds at Sea
• [x] basisOfRecord: all HumanObservation
• [ ] dynamicProperties: all empty
• [x] occurrenceID: 427_853616, etc.
• [x] catalogNumber: 427_853616, etc.
• [x] occurrenceRemarks: all Visual; boat
• [x] recordNumber: 427_853616, etc.
• [ ] recordedBy: all empty
• [x] individualCount: 1, etc.
• [ ] sex: all empty
• [ ] lifeStage: all empty
• [ ] behavior: all empty
• [x] occurrenceStatus: all present
• [ ] preparations: all empty
• [x] associatedReferences: all [{"crossref":{"citeinfo":{"origin":"Stone, C. J., A. Webb, C. Barton, N. Ratcliffe, T.C. Reed, M.L. Tasker, C.J. Camphuysen, and M.W. Pienkowski","pubdate":"1995","title_html":"An atlas of seabird distribution in north-west European waters","title":"An atlas of seabird distribution in north-west European waters","serinfo":{"sername":"Joint Nature Conservation Committee report, Peterborough, ISBN 1 873701 94 2"}}}},{"crossref":{"citeinfo":{"origin":"Halpin, P.N., A.J. Read, E. Fujioka, B.D. Best, B. Donnelly, L.J. Hazen, C. Kot, K. Urian, E. LaBrecque, A. Dimatteo, J. Cleary, C. Good, L.B. Crowder, and K.D. Hyrenbach","pubdate":"2009","title_html":"OBIS-SEAMAP: The world data center for marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle distributions","title":"OBIS-SEAMAP: The world data center for marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle distributions","serinfo":{"sername":"Oceanography","issue":"22(2):104-115"},"onlink":"http:\/\/www.tos.org\/oceanography\/article\/obis-seamap-the-world-data-center-for-marine-mammal-sea-bird-and-sea-turtle"}}}]
• [ ] organismID: all empty
• [ ] associatedOccurrences: all empty
• [ ] organismRemarks: all empty
• [ ] samplingProtocol: all empty
• [ ] samplingEffort: all empty
• [x] eventDate: 1999-01-31T16:40:00, etc.
• [x] eventTime: 16:40:00, etc.
• [x] verbatimEventDate: 1999-01-31 16:40:00, etc.
• [ ] habitat: all empty
• [x] waterBody: all north; west; offshore; European; Atlantic; Irish; Channel; Celtic; shelf; oceanic; Skaggerak; Kategat; Belt; Irish; English; Bristol; Biscay; oceanic
• [ ] islandGroup: all empty
• [ ] island: all empty
• [ ] country: all empty
• [ ] stateProvince: all empty
• [ ] county: all empty
• [ ] municipality: all empty
• [ ] locality: all empty
• [ ] minimumElevationInMeters: all empty
• [ ] maximumElevationInMeters: all empty
• [ ] minimumDepthInMeters: all empty
• [ ] maximumDepthInMeters: all empty
• [ ] verbatimCoordinates: all empty
• [ ] verbatimCoordinateSystem: all empty
• [ ] verbatimSRS: all empty
• [x] decimalLatitude: 58.707000, etc.
• [x] decimalLongitude: -7.111000, etc.
• [x] geodeticDatum: all EPSG:4326 WGS84
• [x] coordinateUncertaintyInMeters: all 0.11
• [x] coordinatePrecision: all 9.99999999999999955e-07
• [x] footprintWKT: POINT(-7.111 58.707, etc.
• [ ] georeferencedBy: all empty
• [x] georeferencedDate: 1999-01-31T16:40:00, etc.
• [ ] georeferenceProtocol: all empty
• [ ] identifiedBy: all empty
• [x] dateIdentified: 1999-01-31T16:40:00, etc.
• [x] identificationRemarks: all Identification Type:Visual sighting
• [ ] identificationQualifier: all empty
• [ ] typeStatus: all empty
• [x] scientificNameID: urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:148776, etc.
• [x] scientificName: Morus bassanus, etc.
• [x] kingdom: all Animalia
• [x] phylum: all Chordata
• [x] class: Aves, etc.
• [x] order: Suliformes, etc.
• [x] family: Sulidae, etc.
• [x] genus: Morus, etc.
• [ ] subgenus: all empty
• [x] specificEpithet: bassanus, etc.
• [x] infraspecificEpithet: all empty
• [x] taxonRank: Species, etc.
• [x] scientificNameAuthorship: (Linnaeus, 1758), etc.
• [x] vernacularName: Northern Gannet, etc.
• [x] nomenclaturalCode: all WoRMS LSID
• [x] taxonomicStatus: all valid
• [x] taxonRemarks: Taxon recorded as "710" by the provider, etc.

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Comparison:

Year	JNCC dataset	New ESAS dataset (filtered on data provider JNCC)	Difference
1979	2,469	2,484	15
1980	77,340	77,966	626
1981	87,299	88,412	1,113
1982	89,683	25,710	-63,973
1983	88,865	22,767	-66,098
1984	63,779	64,903	1,124
1985	45,216	47,111	1,895
1986	65,552	65,835	283
1987	79,309	81,396	2,087
1988	34,581	37,780	3,199
1989	18,140	23,815	5,675
1990	24,630	26,411	1,781
1991	36,077	43,304	7,227
1992	49,595	56,372	6,777
1993	20,622	20,883	261
1994	58,765	63,891	5,126
1995	91,698	100,418	8,720
1996	44,407	53,078	8,671
1997	57,089	60,913	3,824
1998	67,908	75,275	7,367
1999	7,157	7,267	110
2000	12,705	12,707	2
2001		5,779	5,779
2002		9,818	9,818
2003		3,135	3,135
2004		1,967	1,967
2005		8,941	8,941
2006		2,387	2,387