As part of the National Biodiversity Network (NBN)
development, JNCC has moved the Marine Nature Conservation Review
(MNCR) data set out of its Advance Revelation database application
into one compatible with the NBN. Development of this more
user-friendly database application should encourage the wider use
of the database as a means to store data consistently; and better
links to other data repositories is essential. Marine Recorder was
developed using Microsoft Access and the first phase of the
development, the data capture component, was released to the
conservation agencies (CCW, EHS, SNH, Natural England (formally
English Nature)) in May 2002, together with the first export of the
MNCR data.
To complement the Recorder 2000 software, a Marine Recorder
application to capture marine (benthic) biological data has been
developed. Marine Recorder is fully compatible with the NBN data
model, enabling data to be contributed to the NBN Gateway. It is
the main database used by the conservation agencies to hold marine
monitoring habitat data for Special Areas of Conservation.
The Marine Recorder application is
now
available, including application following phase two
development, documentation, and a snapshot application for
extracting data from the database.