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Designing
a database to integrate aspects of the field survey and facilitate access
to data, to ensure the widest possible use of the information collected,
including via the WWW.
Objectives
The objectives of this CS2000 module are:
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to facilitate access to data derived from CS2000 and
earlier surveys for the Department and the Department's contractors or collaborators; to
advise about data characteristics and quality; and, to service ad hoc requests for data
and analyses;
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to design, implement and manage a database that is capable
of integrating and linking the information collected in each of the CS2000 modules and
earlier surveys;
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to support the synthesis and dissemination of outputs from
all CS2000 modules; to produce data and other materials required for electronic
transmission of information via the Internet or the Countryside Information System (CIS), including the National Biodiversity Network; to
provide information for the production of the CS2000 Summary Report;
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to provide assistance and advice to users of CS2000
data and to provide CS2000 data to third parties, subject to agreed policies for access to
data; to develop and implement a dissemination strategy.
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