Over the past six months, Medin has collaborated with the marine industry to enhance access to environmental data, supported by ABPMER's review on the subject. Their efforts include digitizing historical ship logs and expanding their data archiving projects while promoting the use of open data licenses. The Medin data discovery portal now consolidates over 9,990 metadata records, making it easier for diverse users, including government and NGOs, to access valuable marine data.

2. In last 6 months MEDIN
has been…

3. working alongside marine
industry to gain a better
understanding of industry
needs and motivation …

4. “MEDIN infrastructure
provides a sound
platform through
which to make
industry data
available”
ABPmer, (2015). A Review of Access
to Industry Environmental Data.
A report produced by ABP Marine
Environmental Research Ltd for
Productive Seas Evidence Group,
November 2015

5. “valuable information and issues which
need to be addressed"
“very thought provoking"
“interesting/useful to understand
potential future requirements we could
get from our clients"
MEDIN Open Meeting February 2016

6. increasing the number of
organisations involved
with archiving marine
historic environment
data…

7. Historic
Environment
Scotland

8. helping Defra open up
their data….

9. By publishing metadata to data.gov.uk, archiving data with MEDIN and promoting
the use of the Open Government License,
MEDIN has been helping Defra open up access to its
marine data for years.

10. ensuring valuable data is
not lost …

11. 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.

12. enabling people to
discover datasets from
across the UK marine
community …

13. Socio-economic
7% Physical
oceanography
11%
Meteorology
1%
Marine Geology
17%
Marine Chemistry
10%
Marine
Biodiversity
14%
Fisheries
9%
Archaeology
2%
Bathymetry
9%
Anthropogenic
propertes
12%
Boundaries
8%
Containing over 9990 metadata records, the
MEDIN Data Discovery Portal
provides a single access point from which to find out about marine
data from UK organisations across a wide range of marine areas.
Composition of metadata
records in the MEDIN portal
by data type.

14. and asking our users how
we can make things
better…

15. Government Departments
Commercial Organisations
Academia / Research Councils
Charities and NGOs
General Public
A consultation exercise to assess how to upgrade the MEDIN portal
involved the 5 main user groups of MEDIN data:

16. MEDIN works to ensure
that data can be found

17. http://xkcd.com/

18. and used

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