1. Clare Postlethwaite Mary Mowat Judith Thomas February 2014 Edinburgh

2. Schedule 9.30 - 9.45 Welcome and outline to the day 9.45 - 10.00Introduction to MEDIN 10.15 – 10:45Controlled vocabularies 10:45 – 11:00MEDIN Data Archive Centres Tea break 11.15 – 11:30The UK Hydrographic Office 11:30 – 11:45 The British Geological Survey 11:45 – 13:00MEDIN Data Guidelines (bathymetry) Lunch 13.45 – 14:15MEDIN Data Guidelines (other) 14.15 – 14:45 The MEDIN portal 14:45 – 15:45MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard 16.00Wrap up and feedback

3. Who are we? Open partnership Report directly to Marine Science Coordination Committee Sponsors

4. Who are we? Core team based at BODC in Liverpool Metadata support provided by DASSH in Plymouth

5. 3 Key Roles Hub for UK Marine Data Marine Metadata Standard Marine Data Standard Easier data sharing

6. Hub for UK Marine Data 7 Data Archive Centres British Geological Survey British Oceanographic Data Centre UK Hydrographic Office UK Met Office The Archive for Marine Species and habitats Data - DASSH Metadata Data Archaeology Data Service

7. Marine Metadata Standard

8. Metadata Maestro Online ToolStand alone Tool What fields? Puts metadata into computer readable format (xml) Validate Metadata

9. Data Guidelines What fields? Field title Field format: Free text, Decimal, Controlled Vocabulary

10. Controlled Vocabularies Approved terms: e.g. Dissolved oxygen concentration Seawater oxygen concentration Oxygen concentration Concentration of oxygen {O2} per unit mass of the water body [dissolved phase]

11. Summary Network of Data Archive Centres Metadata and data standards that satisfy UK, European requirements Provide a suite of tools to aid data sharing

12. There’s data out there, but we can’t always see it