1. An introduction Measure once, use many times September 2016
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Measure once,
use many times
An introduction

2. Who are MEDIN?
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In operation since 2008 Open partnership Funded by 16 sponsors Budget ~£500K Work with academia, government and industry
MEDIN Sponsors

3. MEDIN Rogues Gallery!
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Core team based at BODC in Liverpool Metadata support provided by DASSH in Plymouth
Lesley Rickards
Hannah Williams
Clare Postlethwaite
Gaynor Evans
Sean Gaffney
Since Previous incarnation since 2005

4. Some MEDIN links
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MEDIN reports to the Marine Science Coordination Committee (MSCC) – partnership reporting to UK Government Ministerial level.
Sit on UK Marine Monitoring Assessment Strategy (UKMMAS) evidence groups, ensuring data sharing at heart of marine strategy
Academic links include NOC, BGS
Work with various industry partners and initiatives e.g. Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, HR Wallingford, Marine Industries Liaison Group

5. i.e. Easier data sharing! MEDIN’s objective
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To improve access to, and management of, UK marine data and information
i.e. Easier data sharing!

6. Bricks without clay!
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“Data! Data! Data! I can’t make bricks without clay!” (Sherlock Holmes) A cautionary tale

7. Marine Standard & Guidelines
The MEDIN Solution
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Hub for UK Marine Data
Marine Standard & Guidelines
Network and Expertise

8. 7 Data Archive Centres (DACs)
Hub for UK Marine Data
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Discovery
metadata
Data
7 Data Archive Centres (DACs)

9. Marine Discovery Metadata Standard
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10. Data Guidelines
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Provide guidance on what metadata needs to be collated to allow data to be re-used – not guidance on how to collect data
Drafted by DACs and other expert bodies. Help to speed up data ingestion into DACs and subsequently makes re-use easier
Field Title
MCO
Description
Recommended Controlled Vocabulary or Format
Examples
surveyName M
Title of the survey
Free text;
2004 CCW Menai Strait benthic monitoring survey
surveyAbstract
Brief description of the purpose of the survey and other types of measurements that were made for the survey.
Survey was the first in a series of 3 in 2010 whose specific aim was to identify sites suitable for further monitoring. Geophysical techniques were used in combination with grabs and cores to assess seabed type.
Field format: Free text, Decimal, Controlled Vocabulary

11. The MEDIN portal MEDIN 2014-2019 Business Plan
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portal.oceannet.org
“… provides a single point of access from which to find out about marine data from all the different UK organisations…”
MEDIN Business Plan
Governed by MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard
Aim is to have all public funded data available under Open Government Licence
MEDIN portal went online in June 2010
Portal currently being upgraded and modernised.

12. Is MEDIN working? Good coverage?
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>10,000 datasets accessible through portal
> 500 organisations have metadata in portal (~200 in 2008)

13. Is MEDIN working? Data in + out?
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(from Annual Report)
Dynamic – All DACs archiving new data every year (5 times more than in , 7 times more than in )
Use
Data used? > 50% increase in requests for data from 2013 – 2014.
(783,249 in total 2014/15)

14. There’s data out there, but we can’t always see it
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