In last 6 months MEDIN has been…

supporting marine industry improve data

management procedures and ensuring valuable industry data won’t be

lost…

… providing tailored training workshops for

industry partners:

Rescuing UK’s Fisheries Science Partnership Data

One of three small data archiving projects focused on industry data

Ensuring valuable datasets created through collaborative work between scientists and the fishing industry since 2003 are available for re-use by industry, academia and government.

making record numbers of marine datasets

discoverable on the MEDIN portal…

Containing over 12,000 metadata records, the

MEDIN Data Discovery Portal

provides a single access point from which to find out about marine data from over 500 UK organisations across a wide range of marine

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…promoting MEDIN and marine data management

at national and international conferences…

IMDIS 2016 International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems

Liverpool, September 2016

Gdansk, October 2016

Marine Science Data Management Special Interest Group Liverpool, September 2016

investigating new ways to increase access to marine

monitoring networks….

Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) pilot Strategic look forward to the time when environmental monitoring sensors join the “Internet of Things”. MEDIN funded a project to demonstrate how public and private sector environmental sensors can be integrated into a single outlet (as per current web pages).

MEDIN works to ensure that data can be found

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