MEDIN guidelines | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network

Data Guidelines provide a list of information that should be collected with your data to ensure they can be re-used in the future. The guidelines are tailored to different methods and are arranged below by theme.

MEDIN data guidelines structure explained

Download an Introduction to MEDIN Data Guidelines ( 977 KB).

Download an independent pilot study ( 509KB) on the usability of MEDIN data guidelines.

Download an example dataset ( 376 KB) that complies with MEDIN data guidelines.

If you cannot find a suitable MEDIN guideline for your data type, please see other marine standards.

Before using your chosen MEDIN guideline, please read this guidlines document ( 221KB) first.

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Bathymetry

Download Bathymetry Guidelines

Physical Oceanography and Metocean

Download Physical Oceanography and Metocean Guidelines

Marine Geology and Geophysics

Download Marine & Geophysics Guidelines

Human Impact

Download Human Impact Guidelines

Marine Chemistry

Download Marine Chemistry Guidelines

Marine Archaeology

Download Marine Archaeology Guidelines

MEDIN data guideline for archiving of digital images (Sep 11)

Marine Biodiversity

Download Marine Biodiversity Guidelines as .zip or .xlsx.