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Charles Copp

Current Work

Charles Copp lives and works in Clevedon, North Somerset in the United Kingdom.

He is currently working on a project to implement the Recorder 6 collections module in Luxembourg National Natural History Museum and is working on the documentation of the TDWG TAPIR protocol for data exchange.


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Charles Copp and EIM

Working under the trading name of EIM, Charles Copp is an independent specialist in wildlife and earth sciences information management. His work ranges from preparing strategic plans for local biodiversity networks to systems analysis and database design and standards development for biodiversity data management and dissemination.

Key skills

  • Knowledge of the organisation and functions of museums, local environmental record centres and national data centres
  • In-depth understanding of environmental data
  • Knowledge of the data requirements of statutory organisations and local government
  • Good working relationships with data providers and managers in the UK
  • Experience in writing LRC and Local Biodiversity Network development plans
  • Experience of writing data access agreements, operating policies and protocol design
  • Knowledge and understanding of NBN projects and standards
  • Expertise in the logical structure of environmental and natural science collections information
  • Specialist knowledge of systems analysis and database design
  • MicroSoft SQL Server, MySQL and PostGres databases [Also Access, Paradox and Advanced Revelation]
  • Technical knowledge of biological and geological recording software and internet-based networking of biodiversity databases
  • Good knowledge of XML and data schemas
  • Web based skills including XHTML and CSS, wikis and content management systems

Some key contracts

  • The Report on Biological Recording in the UK commissioned by the CCBR and published by the DoE (1995)
  • The analysis and design for the Recorder 2000 data model, now adopted as the NBN data model
  • Data standards and dictionaries for the NBN including taxa, biotopes and administrative dictionaries
  • Design of the original NBN Data transfer model utilising Extensible Mark-up Language (XML)
  • Involvement in the build and testing of Recorder 2000
  • Development Plans for Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire and Essex Local Records Centres and Biodiversity Networks
  • Development of proposals and workbook for an NBN Accreditation System for LRCs
  • Thesaurus work-package leader for the European funded BioCASE project linking collections and data centres in 31 countries.
  • Development of a collections management module for Recorder 6, including earth sciences specimens and field observations
  • Contributor to the ABCD biological data schema and its geological and anthropological extensions

Last Upate - 6th September 2006