MEDIN data guidelines | MEDIN – Marine Environmental Data and Information Network

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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.

An Introduction to MEDIN Data Guidelines is available to download (977 KB).
An independent pilot study on the usability of MEDIN data guidelines is available to download.

An example dataset that complies with MEDIN data guidelines can be downloaded here (376 KB).

Bathymetry

Download Bathymetry Guidelines

Physical Oceanography and Metocean

Download Physical Oceanography and Metocean Guidelines

Marine Geology and Geophysics

Download Marine & Geophysics Guidelines

Grab or Core Guidelines, read this first

MEDIN data guideline for data by grab or core guidance .xlsx (Jun 19)

MEDIN data guideline for data by grab or core form .xlsx (Jun 19)

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

MEDIN data guideline for ad-hoc sightings (Oct 19)

Ad-hoc sightings guideline, read this first

MEDIN data guideline for ad-hoc guidance .xlsx (Oct 19)

Grab or Core Guidelines, read this first

MEDIN data guideline for data by grab or core guidance .xlsx (Jun 19)

MEDIN data guideline for data by grab or core form .xlsx (Jun 19)

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