1. Introduction Measure once, use many times May 2017 The Crown Estate
Sean Gaffney (with acknowledgements to Pete Edmonds, ex Crown Estate)

2. Who are MEDIN?
May 2017
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In operation since 2008 Open partnership Funded by 16 sponsors Budget ~£500K
Work with academia, government and industry

3. NOT SUSTAINABLE – MEDIN TO PROVIDE A SOLUTION
Why is MEDIN necessary?
May 2017
The Crown Estate
> 200 holders of marine data and information in the UK (circa. 2008)
NOT SUSTAINABLE – MEDIN TO PROVIDE A SOLUTION

4. i.e. Easier data sharing! MEDIN’s objective
May 2017
The Crown Estate
To improve access to, and management of, UK marine data and information
i.e. Easier data sharing!

5. Capital mistakes!
May 2017
The Crown Estate
“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data!” (Sherlock Holmes)
What do we mean by “data”?
What’s the difference between an observation and data?
“The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.” – Carly Fiorina, former executive, president, and chair of Hewlett-Packard Co.
A cautionary tale

6. Marine Standard & Guidelines
The MEDIN Solution
May 2017
The Crown Estate
Hub for UK Marine Data
Marine Standard & Guidelines
Network and Expertise

7. MEDIN Rogues Gallery!
May 2017
The Crown Estate
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

8. Two important terms… Discovery metadata… Usage metadata… May 2017
The Crown Estate
Discovery metadata…
Usage metadata…

9. 7 Data Archive Centres (DACs)
Hub for UK Marine Data
May 2017
The Crown Estate
Discovery
metadata
Data
7 Data Archive Centres (DACs)

10. Benefits of MEDIN DACs
May 2017
The Crown Estate
DAC

11. Marine Discovery Metadata Standard
May 2017
The Crown Estate

12. The MEDIN portal MEDIN 2014-2019 Business Plan
May 2017
The Crown Estate
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.

13. MEDIN Data Guidelines May 2017 The Crown Estate
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 and data sharing easier
General Metadata:
Project and Survey tables
Detailed Metadata:
Details of methods or instrumentation used to collect data
Data:
Fixed Station, Sample Event and Sample Data

14. Is MEDIN working? Good coverage?
May 2017
The Crown Estate
>12,800 datasets accessible through portal
> 500 organisations have metadata in portal (~200 in 2008)

15. Spatial coverage of MEDIN data
May 2017
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Heatmap of density of marine datasets available on MEDIN portal (MEDIN Annual Report, 2015/16)

16. Is MEDIN working? Data in + out?
May 2017
The Crown Estate
(from Annual Report)
Dynamic – over 9300 datasets at the DACs (> 1,400 new datasets this year). Total is 10% more than , 2.5 times more than in )
Use
Data used? 400% increase in requests for data from 2014 – 2015.
(3.2 million requests ;
783,249 in total 2014/15)

17. Challenges faced past/present
May 2017
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User Buy-In
Concern about resource needed to populate guidelines and metadata
Why should the originator bother? What do they gain from adhering to MEDIN?
Complexity of guidelines and discovery metadata tools is addressed by MEDIN through free 1-day workshops which have excellent feedback
Independent study showed only 1 – 3.5 hours additional work required per dataset to ensure all information needed by Data Guideline is captured!
Feedback from users indicates that if they are creating discovery metadata, they only need to add another min to make the record MEDIN compliant.
Adherence to MEDIN will enable data collectors to meet their contractual requirements e.g. offshore renewables industry
Data collectors may gain a reputational benefit if storing their data and metadata at MEDIN e.g. citations, industry acknowledgement of good data practice; acknowledgement that data have other uses than those they were collected for
Removal of originator cost overheads for long term data security through the use of the DAC network

18. (P. Edmonds, The Crown Estate, 05 Feb 2016)
May 2017
The Crown Estate
Updated wind resource model for the UK - > resolution > modelling
All validated by offshore wind met mast data.
Small point data helped!
(P. Edmonds, The Crown Estate, 05 Feb 2016)

19. How could MEDIN apply to me?
May 2017
The Crown Estate
How do I comply with MEDIN?
Organisation with a question
Contractor
Data
DACs?
Storage
Liaison and metadata
Elsewhere
Why do I have to do all of this??
Requirement for marine data. Either through best practice or requirement e.g. through Crown Estate, has to comply with medin.
Data & storage.
Feedback useful.
Problem/question.
Re-use of data enabled through Guidelines
Metadata creation by contractor or data holder
PORTAL!

20. Challenges faced past/present
May 2017
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Expansion of the DAC network to account for new data types
Underwater noise archiving and delivery service being built by BODC
Marine Litter DAC? MEDIN advising on this

21. EU INSPIRE, IODE, IHO, EMODNet
MEDIN links
May 2017
The Crown Estate
Building links amongst MEDIN stakeholders
Government agencies and Departments
Commercial organisations
Academia and research community
Charities and NGOs
General public
MEDIN regarded internationally as example of best practice for data management and data sharing by
EU INSPIRE, IODE, IHO, EMODNet

22. Other work MEDIN has done
May 2017
The Crown Estate
Rescuing UK’s Fisheries Science Partnership Data
Ensuring valuable datasets since 2003 are available for re-use by industry, academia and government.
One of three small data archiving projects focused on industry data

23. Other work MEDIN has done
May 2017
The Crown Estate
Digitising ship logs at Met Office
One 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.

24. Sensor Web Enablement May 2017 The Crown Estate
Standardized web services will exist for accessing sensor information and sensor observations
Sensors can issue alerts and respond to alerts based on data.
Sensor systems capable of real-time mining of observations to identify phenomena of interest
From

25. Becoming a partner or sponsor
May 2017
The Crown Estate
Become a MEDIN partner! This means that Organisation can declare they share MEDIN principles of best practice in data management. Attend partner meetings and feed into the future direction of MEDIN
Become a MEDIN Sponsor! Dafadfadsfadfadf Contribute financially to the development of MEDIN and have extensive input into the future and current operation of MEDIN.
More sponsors = better data sharing

26. There’s data out there, but we can’t always see it
May 2017
The Crown Estate

27. http://xkcd.com/ + Clare P
DAY 45
ESCAPE AT LAST
+ Clare P