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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and used

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DAY 45:ESCAPE AT LAST

Measure

once,

use many

times