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Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN)
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Making all UK marine data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable (FAIR)
www.medin.org.uk
📢Call for speakers: MEDIN Open Meeting 2025 📢
"Unlocking the oceans: managing emerging and established marine data"
📅Thursday 4th December 2025
📍Hybrid - Met Office, Exeter and online using Microsoft Teams

Deadline September 19th 2025
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August 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
🚨 Time to Upgrade Your MEDIN Metadata Maestro 🚨

From 1 Oct, MEDIN Metadata Maestro for v2.3.8 is retiring

Upgrade to v3.1 for:

✨ Easier navigation & tips
✅ Colour-coded compliance checks
🌍 Multi-standard metadata support
📋 Templates & vocabularies

Download now ➡️ medin.org.uk/data-standar...
August 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Register now for the first MEDIN webinar:

📅 20th August 2025 14:00 – 15:00
🗺️Navigating Marine Data: Planning, Stewardship and the value of MEDIN

Read more about the webinar series and sign up noc-events.co.uk/medin-2025-w...
#MEDINwebinars2025
August 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Check out the Healthy & Biologically Diverse Seas Evidence Group (HBDSEG).

Explore the 4 goals of HBDSEG
1️⃣Coordinated marine monitoring
2️⃣Community of stakeholders
3️⃣Continuously improving evidence base
4️⃣ Quality assured data

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#metadatamonday
July 23, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Today at NOC Open Day we are announcing the next MEDIN workshop!

Taking place on October 13-17th, online using OceanTeacher Global Academy, you can register for FREE here:
bit.ly/446xQuo

For more information about the MEDIN workshops check out our website:
bit.ly/446xQuo
June 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Our colleagues at @icesmarine.bsky.social are inviting feedback on their Spatial Facility and Metadata Catalogue.

🔍 Explore:
gis.ices.dk/sf/
gis.ices.dk/geonetwork/s...

📝 Share your feedback:
forms.office.com/e/7EjqRhuidr

Let’s make spatial data more accessible! #ICES #GIS #MarineData
May 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
At the METS RCN workshop at BIOS, Pier Luigi Buttegieg presents the work MEDIN completed sending MEDIN portal records to Ocean InfoHub during his presentation about the Ocean Data Information System (#ODIS) and being visible across the Ocean's Internet.
oceaninfohub.org

#METSRCN2025
#BIOS
April 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Save the date for the next MEDIN workshop!

📆 19th – 23rd May 2025

The FREE virtual/online workshop titled: ‘Marine Data Management, Governance and the MEDIN toolset’ is hosted on OceanTeacher Global Academy.

Register now: medin.org.uk/data-standar...

#marinedatamanagement #freetraining #CPD
April 1, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Today is the last day of the #IODE Committee meeting in Colombia.

IODE was established in 1961 to enhance marine research & development, by facilitating the exchange of oceanographic data & information.

Find out more:
bit.ly/4bMur6x

@dassh-at-the-mba.bsky.social @bodc.bsky.social
March 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The 28th session of the International Oceanographic Data & Information Exchange (IODE) committee is this week!

@bodc.bsky.social is the #NODC of the UK,

@dassh-at-the-mba.bsky.social is attending as the co-chair of
#OBIS

Cefas and MEDIN are #ADUs of IODE so are attending remotely.
March 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Looking for information about fishing restrictions around the UK and beyond? 🎣🚫

Check out the reference layers in the MEDIN portal 👇

Under 'fisheries and aquaculture' 🐟

portal.medin.org.uk/portal/start...

#WMSwednesday
February 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
🚀 The new MEDIN Online Discovery Metadata Editor is live! Create, validate, export, & publish marine metadata.

🌊 Please switch to the new editor! 🔗 metadata.marinebiodiversity.org

⚡Exciting key features

Existing accounts transferred. Reset your password to access!
February 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Standards are common rules, conditions or guidelines & are essential to enable easy discovery and re-use of data.

Explore the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard and tools to help your metadata creation 👇
medin.org.uk/data-standards

#metadatamonday
February 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
How is MEDIN involved in the UN Ocean Decade? 🌊

The UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) aims to harness ocean science to achieve sustainable development and reverse the decline in ocean health.

Check out our website for more info 👇
hubs.la/Q032rmrK0

#UNOceanDecade
January 20, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The metadata from the Dudgeon and Sheringham Extension, CPT campaign (EQ24456) is #DatasetOfTheWeek. This contains the field, factual, & interpretative report for the 2024 CPT campaign. In addition the CPT data is shared.

Find out more and access the data:
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January 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Do we need an online database of UK marine monitoring? 🌊

Please complete this questionnaire (forms.office.com/e/8s7N2HAs92) to let us know if you need metadata, data and/or programme information about UK marine monitoring.

For more details and information:https://hubs.la/Q032vhwR0
January 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Did you know? 🤔🌊

We have a non-spatial discovery metadata standard available 👇
medin.org.uk/data-standar...

The MEDIN definition of a non-spatial dataset is “Marine data that are independent of geographic location.” E.g. lab or experimental results, social science data etc.

#metadatamonday
January 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Join the MEDIN/mNCEA Non-Spatial Discovery Metadata Workshop 👇

📅 25/01/25 10:00AM
📍Online

Tailored for professionals working with metadata, gain knowledge and understand the tools needed to make marine non-spatial data discoverable through the MEDIN Portal.

forms.office.com/pages/respon...
January 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The newest record in the MEDIN portal that took place on November 28th is Liverpool Bay - Queen's Channel - Taylor's Spit to Askew Spit - 1m - Bathymetric Survey

Find out more 👇🌊
portal.medin.org.uk/portal/?deta...

#MEDINDataAdvent Day 17
December 17, 2024 at 2:02 PM
The MEDIN Annual Report (2023-2024) is now published!

Many accomplishments achieved by a huge collaborative effort of the marine community, MEDIN Sponsors, Partners and Data Archive Centres.

Read more 👇
medin.org.uk/sites/medin/...

#MEDINDataAdvent Day 16
December 16, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Join the Non-Spatial Discovery Metadata Workshop!

📅Jan 21, 2025, 10:00 AM
📍Online

Tailored for professionals working with metadata, the workshop will equip you with the knowledge & tools needed to make marine non-spatial data discoverable.

Register by Jan 14: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
December 13, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Carbon Uptake and Seasonal Traits in Antarctic Remineralisation Depth (#CUSTARD) programme dataset is #MEDINDataAdvent Day 12 🌟✨🎄

@bodc.bsky.social

Find out more from the MEDIN portal here; portal.medin.org.uk/portal/?deta...
December 12, 2024 at 2:43 PM
We are at the National Environment Monitoring Conference in Liverpool today!

Dr Clare Postlethwaite presented in the freshwater, coastal and marine monitoring session. Great to see the Met Office
& so many other MEDIN Sponsors!

Explore #UKDMOS here 👇🌊
www.ukdmos.org
December 10, 2024 at 1:46 PM
On the 10th Day of Christmas #MEDINDataAdvent gives to you... ✨🌟✨

Seabed Prehistory: Site Evaluation Techniques Synthesis - Artefactual material, including faunal remains of reindeer🦌 from 2008,11km off the coast of Great #Yarmouth.

👇
portal.medin.org.uk/portal/?deta...

Archaeology Data Service
December 10, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Scotland River Temperature Monitoring Network (SRTMN) - Tree planting prioritisation for shading rivers datasets is #MEDINDataAdvent Day 9 🎄🌲🎄🌲

Find out more from the MEDIN portal 👇
portal.medin.org.uk/portal/?deta...
December 9, 2024 at 11:56 AM