Class MonitoringPurpose(child of MonitoringSite)
- Please include here any comments which apply to all the schema elements in this Class.
- In addition to those general schema element level comments, we welcome your views on: a) whether you think this Class can be simplified; and b) whether you think the linkages with other reporting Classes or Schemas can be improved, and how;
Previous comments
The way Purpose is reported for each monitoring site, and then for each monitoring site and chemical parameter is partly overlapping and seems unnecessarily complicated. And in the midst, the connection to monitoring program goes through site-purpose.
This information is redundant because it is also reported in the GML. In any case if this info has to be reported in both GIS and DB, at least the enumerationlist should be the same;
We don't see the added value of keeping this class as some information regarding the monitoring purpose is already included in classes MonitoringSite, SWEcologicalMonitoring and ChemicalMonitoring. We would suggest to delete this class.
Besides reporting on monitoring programmes should focus on the monitoring done for the status assessment of the WBs. We don't see the added value of reporting information here on the monitoring regarding e.g. the bathing water directive as a separate reporting is taking place under that directive.