Over the last 8 years BIS has been working intermittently on a project to mobilise all the data held by CCW in the Powys and BBNP area. BIS finished that project in 2009 and now holds about 600,000 of those records in its database.
It is CCW policy that all publicly gathered data should be available at full resolution on NBN Gateway unless they are 'sensitive' species, which will be available publicly at a lower resolution. BIS is working with CCW to put the higher plant records onto NBN Gateway shortly and then all the records will be put up in 2010.
Most of these records are made by CCW staff or from surveys commissioned by CCW, however some of the records may have been provided by private individuals to help the nature conservation work of CCW. On NBN Gateway the records will show the species name, grid reference, location, date and the survey name held in Recorder 6. CCW has not previously made the recorders name publicly available when they have put their HQ datasets onto Gateway. At BIS we feel that the recorders name should be included, as it indicates the recorders intellectual property rights and makes the record more meaningful.
BIS proposes to make the recorders name publicly available when it uploads these CCW records to NBN Gateway unless any recorder requests us not to. If you may have contributed records to CCW could you please let BIS know if you are not happy to have your name shown as part of the public record on NBN Gateway.