Inconsistent format description in the Acoustic

[sindrevatnehol]

Inconsistent format description in the Acoustic

[HjalteParner]

Sindre, I think we might have made a mistake here in the acoustic xsd in January this year where we made the sample optional instead of mandatory. FYI it was done at the same time where catch was made optional in relation to haul in the biotic xsd as you can have a haul without catch. However, I'm not sure the same should logically be true for sample in relation to log as you should (in my opinion) always register what you have investigated. So if you should as such (in my opinion again) make a record for each layer you have sampled and then record 0 in the data record for the target species and possible also a value (which might be 0) for UNK for the rest of the acoustic backscatter signal you haven't classified into a category. If you do not give a sample/data for a given layer, then it's impossible know whether you just haven't looked in that (which) layer or if you just didn't bother to report your findings. In other words, I'm not a fan of assumptions as I don’t know how to interpret these unwritten assumptions!

[sindrevatnehol]

Hi Hjalte. The way I like to interpretate I follow your opinion excatly! But others may not share that strategy so I think it is better to have a discussions what requierements the database should have.

But perhaps there is a need for a easy acces description of the requierements for the database that does not fit in the XSD? We get these logic errors when we submitt, but it would be nice to have them avaliable before. Perhaps within the same zip file when we download the format description?

[HjalteParner]

Sindre, yes I agree. We should definitely improve the format description in addition to the hardcoded schemes and validation rules. Do you volunteer ;-)

[sindrevatnehol]

Hjalte. If you send me list of all the database requierements (i don't have a overview of everything...) I can make a description and make an issue to WGACOUSTICGOV for approval when finnished.

[HjalteParner]

@HjalteParner check that xsd have been changed and then close