Marine Strategy Framework Directive reporting resources Support files for the reporting on the 2018 update of articles 8, 9 & 10

Schemas

Schemas based on Reporting Guidance 5.1 (to be used for generation of the XML to be submitted to CDR):

Updated on 19.03.2019

• ART9_GES.xsd
• ART8_GES.xsd
• ART8_ESA.xsd
• Indicators.xsd
• ART10_Targets.xsd
• MSFDCommon_2018.xsd
• MSFD reporting schemas 5.1 zip (all the schemas in a zip file)

Schema of the Common Indicator Structure (to be used for indicators publication):

Updated on 19.01.2018

• Indicator_structure_v20.xsd

Schema of MSFD 4 Geo:

• MSFD4Geo_2p0.xsd
• Template for the reporting of the Marine Reporting Units (Spatial)
• Marine Reporting Units template guidance (Spatial)

Data specifications in UML

The UML provides developers the capacity to implement their own reporting tools.

• UML MSFD_2018 in Enterprise Architect project format (EAP)

  You can download at this link a free tool that will allow you to visualise and explore MSFD_2018 model.

  You can obtain further information about this tool at this link.

See below the UML diagrams for human reading:

• ART9_GES.png
• ART8_GES.png
• ART8_ESA.png
• Indicators.png
• ART10_Targets.png
• MSFDCommon_2018.png

QA/QC

The following specifications are the basis of the quality assessment tools

• QA specification for descriptive data (XML)