Information
- Type
- Organization
- Type
- https://marineinfo.org/ns/institutes/types#Scientific
- Name
- Marine Environmental Data and Information Network
- Acronym
- MEDIN
- Address
- Joseph Proudman Building, 6 Brownlow Street, Liverpool L3 5DA, UK
- Email
- enquiries@oceannet.org
- Location
-
- latitude
- 53.4074150
- longitude
- -2.9676550
- Description @en
- MEDIN aims to provide:
- secure long-term management of marine data sets by setting up a network of Data Archive Centres (DACs)
- improved access to authoritative marine data held in this network, through a central discovery metadata portal
- an agreed set of common standards for metadata, data format and content maintained and supported by partners
- guidelines, contractual clauses and software tools to support standards and best practice data management