Identification

Title

Common Database on Designated Areas (CDDA) attribute data (access database)

Abstract

The CDDA is a data bank for officially designated protected areas such as nature reserves, protected landscapes, National Parks, etc. in Europe. The CDDA is run by the European Environment Agency(EEA). This access database includes only data for National Designations, the main ones being Sites of Special Scientific Interest, National Nature Reserves, Local Nature Reserves, National Parks, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and a variety of Marine Protected Areas. The data are updated annually in March. Further details are available from the EEA's EIONET portal http://rod.eionet.europa.eu/obligations/32. This provides data for all members states in the EU and also describes the data model with descriptions of each table and attribute. The two most important tables in the data schema are the sites table (one row of data for each site) and the designations table (one row for each type of designation). These two tables can be joined on the field DESIG_ABBR. Other tables in the schema are included mainly for EEAs internal purposes. The annual submission of the CDDA

Resource type

nonGeographicDataset

Resource locator

http://data.jncc.gov.uk/data/29e3eedf-2748-4752-bc25-4d8c2ca84348-CDDA-GBR-20160310.mdb

name: CDDA-GBR-20160310.mdb

Unique resource identifier

code

29e3eedf-2748-4752-bc25-4d8c2ca84348

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Additional information source

http://rod.eionet.europa.eu/obligations/32

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Freshwater

Marine

Terrestrial

Protected Areas

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

East bounding longitude

North bounding latitude

South bounding latitude

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1950-01-01

End position

2016-01-01

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2016-03-15

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Data have been supplied to JNCC from the Statutory Nature Conservation Bodies Scottish Natural Heritage: www.snh.gov.uk Natural Resources Wales: www.ccw.gov.uk Natural England: www.naturalengland.org.uk Northern Ireland Environment Agency: www.ni-environment.gov.uk They use a template supplied by the European Environment Agency and sent to them via JNCC Data Services. JNCC and the SNCBs undertake quality assurance to make sure that the accompanying GIS boundary data (available as shapefiles). JNCC also run the automated validation checks that are launched from the start up form in the Access database.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Microsoft Access for Windows

version of format

Unknown

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Released under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Attribution statement: "Contains public sector data © JNCC/NE/NRW/SNH/DOENI. Licence: OGL"

Limitations on public access

no limitations

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC

email address

data@jncc.gov.uk

responsible party role

custodian

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC

email address

data@jncc.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2018-05-17

Metadata language