Post on 13-Apr-2017
In last 6 months MEDIN has been…
working alongside marine industry to gain a better
understanding of industry needs and motivation …
“MEDIN infrastructure provides a sound platform through which to
make industry data available”
ABPmer, (2015). A Review of Access to Industry Environmental Data.
A report produced by ABP Marine Environmental Research Ltd for Productive Seas Evidence Group, November 2015
“valuable information and issues which need to be addressed"
“very thought provoking" “interesting/useful to understand
potential future requirements we could get from our clients"
MEDIN Open Meeting February 2016
increasing the number of organisations involved with
archiving marine historic environment data…
Historic Environment Scotland
helping Defra open up their data….
By publishing metadata to data.gov.uk, archiving data with MEDIN and promoting the use of the Open Government License,
MEDIN has been helping Defra open up access to its marine data for years.
ensuring valuable data is not lost …
Digitising ship logs at Met OfficeOne of 6 data archiving projects funded by MEDIN
in 2015/16.20,000 previously un-digitised observations, from relatively data sparse areas made available to the
international climate community.
enabling people to discover datasets from across the UK marine
community …
Socio-economic7%
Physical oceanog-raphy11%
Meteorology1%
Marine Geology17%
Marine Chemistry10%Marine Biodiversity
14%
Fisheries9%
Archaeology2%
Bathymetry9%
Anthropogenic propertes
11%
Boundaries8%
Containing over 9990 metadata records, the
MEDIN Data Discovery Portal
provides a single access point from which to find out about marine data from UK organisations across a wide range of marine areas.
Composition of metadata records in the MEDIN portal
by data type.
and asking our users how we can make things
better…
Government DepartmentsCommercial Organisations
Academia / Research CouncilsCharities and NGOs
General Public
A consultation exercise to assess how to upgrade the MEDIN portal involved the 5 main user groups of MEDIN data:
MEDIN works to ensure that data can be found
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