Review of draft data flow schematic: ICES VMS-Logbook

[neil-ices-dk]

You are probably aware that we are in the process of being evaluated for accreditation as a Data Centre as part of the overall quality assurance efforts for ICES advice. One of the things that we have started addressing are the descriptions of the dataflows into ICES, and the resultant data products/advice. This is now being produced as a publication series ‘ICES Data Flow Schematics’ and the first one has been published (and at least Neil C commented on this one)

NEAF VMS Data Flow

For a description of the overall publication process, which has been approved by ACOM, see text here

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We are now in the process of working through the main VMS-Logbook data flow, which is of course heavily tied to WGSFD and WGSFDGOV. The folder and the pdf of the draft schematic are on links below. We would like you to take a look and provide any suggestions/edits as comments on the pdf directly, or by email/other document if that is easier. Joana, in copy, is responsible for updating the schematic, and so please ask her if there are any things that are not clear in the diagram.

We aim to have a final publication of this data flow for November 2020, so we would appreciate feedback by the 1st October.

Many thanks for your help with this

DataFlow Publications Staging Folder

DataFlowVMS.pdf

[neil-ices-dk]

@christianvdorrien and @neilcampbelll at the upcoming ad-hoc meeting of WGSFDGOV, will you be able to spend 10-15 minutes on this? thanks, Neil

[christianvdorrien]

Hi Neil, good idea - let's do that. Cheers Christian

[LaraSalvany]

Minor comments only In Data products: The aggregated spatial data are approved by the WGSFD subgroup and described in their report the aggregated products are not published in the group report. In **Advice: -what's the footnote 1? -The other type of advice products, the technical services (no peer-review nor ADG) should also be included.

[neil-ices-dk]

data products (to change text to below): Aggregated data are not compliant with the quality requirements and one or more data depositors are asked for clarification and/or to resubmit their data

The work of WGSFD is reviewed by the review group change to: The outputs (products, reports, maps etc.) of WGSFD are reviewed by the review group

[neil-ices-dk]

we need to reflect better that it can be a) kicked back to the WG or b) annotated as a caveat in the advice

[neil-ices-dk]

-The other type of advice products, the technical services (no peer-review nor ADG) should also be included.

agree :)

[neil-ices-dk]

@pcrjoana welcome to the thread - and the above comments are for you to take into account; please post a follow-up here once you have a new version of the dataflow ready :)

[pcrjoana]

Hello all! I am sorry for taking so long to implement your comments. The data flow schematic as now been updated and can be found at: http://community.ices.dk/Publications/dataflows/_layouts/15/start.aspx#/SitePages/HomePage.aspx?RootFolder=%2FPublications%2Fdataflows%2FShared%20Documents%2F2%2E%202020%2DVMS%2DICES&FolderCTID=0x0120002B6BCCEF5C6CC14896CD3A12572762DA&View=%7BB4F7E007%2D8185%2D4F33%2D85CB%2DEEF407BA4A8E%7D @LaraSalvany the footnote refers to a table listing the different types of recurring advice. The table is in the file VMSadvice, which can also be found in the folder linked above.

[neil-ices-dk]

@christianvdorrien and @neilcampbelll any further thoughts on the revised data flow, we're keen to progress this one :)

[christianvdorrien]

Thanks Joana and Neil for the update, and sorry for the late reply (I thought this is already closed): I think it looks fine! My only comment concerns the footnote-numbers - do these point to the table in the word-doc? Cheers Christian

[neil-ices-dk]

thanks @christianvdorrien, see Joana's earlier comment about the footnotes, hope that answers it 🧑‍🔧

@LaraSalvany the footnote refers to a table listing the different types of recurring advice. The table is in the file VMSadvice, which can also be found in the folder linked above.

[christianvdorrien]

ah, these modern techniques seem to me to become more and more conspicuous ;-)