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The Hub for UK Marine DataClare Postlethwaite
Building a Maritime Spatial Data InfrastructureMarch 2015
Measure once,
use many tim
es
What is MEDIN?
Open partnership Funded by 15 sponsorsBudget ~£500K
Sponsors
Objective:
“improve access to, and management of, UK marine data and information”
Hub for UK Marine Data
Marine Standards
Expertise
Easier data sharing
Hub for UK Marine Data
7 Data Archive Centres
Metadata
Data
MEDIN Portal
Data Archive Centres (DACs)
The MEDIN DAC Network
Objective: CurateUpload and
Retrieve Data
Searchable Expertise
Seabed and sub-seabedgeology, geophysics
Marine flora, fauna and habitats
Water column oceanography
Bathymetry
Marine meteorology (metocean)
Marine historic environment
Marine fisheries
Marine Metadata Standard
Marine Metadata Standard
Metadata Maestro
Online Tool Stand alone Tool
What fields?Puts metadata into computer readable format (xml)Validate Metadata
Is it working? Good coverage?
>9,200 datasets
Socio-economic7%
Physical oceanography
11%Meteorology
1%
Marine Geology17%
Marine Chemistry10%Marine Biodiversity
14%
Fisheries9%
Archaeology2%
Bathymetry9%
Anthropogenic propertes
11%
Boundaries8%
Dynamic – All DACs archiving new data each year.
Use
Data used?> 50% increase in requests for data from 2013 –
2014.
Is it working? Data in?
Life before MEDIN
• OCEANOGRAPHY
•?
•?
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> 100 holders of marine data and information in the UK
Life after MEDIN
• OCEANOGRAPHY
•?
•?
•?
MEDINData
Archive
Centres
There’s data out there, but we can’t always see it
http://xkcd.com/
DAY 45ESCAPE AT LAST
http://xkcd.com/ + Clare P