Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN)

NGO / Public Service

MEDIN, an open partnership of UK organisations; promotes sharing of, and improved access to, these data. MEDIN provides: - Secure long-term management of marine data sets by setting up a network of Data Archive Centres (DACs). - Improved access to authoritative marine data held in this network, through a central discovery metadata portal. - An agreed set of common standards for metadata, data format and content maintained and supported by partners. - Guidelines, contractual clauses and software tools to support standards and practice data manage