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Biodiversity Action PlansBiodiversity Action Plansdata reporting and publishingdata reporting and publishing

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BAP reporting on 2008 and 2010BAP reporting on 2008 and 2010

Data and information collected by the countries and aggregated by the Commission

Final reporting made in PDF format Difficult to extract reported data and information

because of the lack of structure

Manual work needed into compare different actions and targets per country

Manual work needed in reusing (parts of) the information into aggregated reports

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BAP reporting in ReportnetBAP reporting in Reportnet

Lack of structured delivery formats does not allow automatic conversion to other formats or automatic quality assessment

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Publishing processPublishing process

Reported data was copied from the PDF files and pasted into a relational database

Long and fully manual process

Issues occurred during transformation: different encodings, text formatting, special characters

Initially - MS Access database build for the construction of the EU Community Report

Data migrated into MySQL, for the presentation on the BISE portal

Several rounds of manual checking were necessary

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EU BAP report 2010 into BISE (1)EU BAP report 2010 into BISE (1)

Data available per country:

Objectives

Targets

Actions

Measures of Progress

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EU BAP report 2010 into BISE (2)EU BAP report 2010 into BISE (2)

Comparison of data for

multiple countries,

and

with the Community Report

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EU BAP report 2010 into BISE (3)EU BAP report 2010 into BISE (3)

The Community Report is aggregated by the Commission and lists for each Objective, Target and Action:

-Community actions

-Progress since the last reporting (2008)

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Conclusions and recommendationsConclusions and recommendations

Reportnet deliveries should be made in structured format XML, RDF

Excel

Relational database

The SOER approach (SEIS) makes the further checking and integration of BAP data easier and will less errors

It should be possible to aggregate future deliveries into the BISE easier

It should be easy for other applications to grab and reuse the BAP data