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MEDIN discovery metadata standard
Discovery metadata is a list of information that accompanies a dataset and allows other people to find out what the dataset contains, where it was collected and how they can get hold of it.
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Standards are common rules, conditions or guidelines and are essential to enable easy discovery and re-use of data. MEDIN promotes the use of standardised field names and controlled vocabularies so that datasets are described in a consistent way for every type of marine data.
Enable easy discovery and re-use of data
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MEDIN Data Guidelines
Data Guidelines provide a list of information that should be collected with your data to ensure they can be re-used in the future.
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Controlled Vocabularies
Controlled vocabularies are used to remove ambiguity when describing data.
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MEDIN Workshops
MEDIN regularly holds free workshops to improve the uptake, knowledge and use of MEDIN standards and the tools that support them.
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Other marine data standards
This list comprises some alternative standards and guidelines that can be used in the absence of a suitable MEDIN option.