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The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) has been accredited as MEDIN Data Archive Centre for water column oceanographic data.

This data type is archived by BODC (British Oceanographic Data Centre) who accept marine data including biological, chemical, physical, geophysical, imagery and model runs. The BODC will provide a range of services that vary depending on funding, service, size, quality and data type. Depending on the funding route, services which may be free include archival, discovery metadata creation, DOI publication, vocabulary creation and guidance. There may at times be a cost depending on the individual requirements. Additional services can include integration of data into research infrastructures. Please email enquiries@bodc.ac.uk to submit this data type or make a related enquiry.

This data type is archived by the British Geological Survey (BGS) who accept seabed and sub-seabed geological and geophysical data including seabed sample data from grabs and cores, shallow seismic, backscatter, sidescan sonar, physical materials (cores and samples), and geological maps. See the and MEDIN page for more information. BGS will provide the following services for free: ingestion, archival and dissemination of datasets (as received). Submit data through the NGDC Data Deposit portal (select MEDIN from the list of data sources). Large or recurrent data deposits and other services may have a cost incurred; please enquire for an exact costing. To make an enquiry please contact offshoredata@bgs.ac.uk

This data type is archived by DASSH (The UK Archive for Marine Species and Habitats Data) and includes marine species and habitats data collected under most survey types. DASSH will archive, disseminate, and create DOI and Discovery Metadata free of charge provided that the data are provided in MEDIN Guideline format. DASSH can digitize a data set into MEDIN Guideline format for a cost, please enquire for exact quote. To submit data to DASSH or make enquiry please email dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk

                          

FishDAC

The Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) and Marine Scotland Directorate of the Scottish Government have been accredited as a combined MEDIN Data Archive Centre for fish, shellfish, fisheries and related samples data. 3rd party data, including that of the Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authorities (IFCAs) is managed by DASSH. This combined data archive centre is called FishDAC.

Marine Directorate of the Scottish Government

The Marine Directorate of the Scottish Government can accept fisheries data from Scottish organizations or covering predominantly Scottish waters. Please email marinescotland@gov.scot for more information on data submission.

DASSH (The UK Archive for Marine Species and Habitats Data) can accept UK fisheries data. DASSH will archive, disseminate, and create DOI and Discovery Metadata free of charge provided that the data are provided in MEDIN Guideline format (see https://medin.org.uk/data-standards/medin-data-guidelines. DASSH can digitize a data set into MEDIN Guideline format for a cost, please enquire for exact quote. To submit data to DASSH or make enquiry please email dassh.enquiries@mba.ac.uk

CEFAS although part of the FishDAC does not accept data submissions externally

The Archaeology Data Service (ADS), Historic Environment Scotland (HES) and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW) have been accredited as MEDIN Data Archive Centre for marine historic environment data.

Archaeology Data Service (ADS)

Archaeology Data Service (ADS) can accept Historic environment data subject to their collections policy (see) which may incur a cost to the data provider. Small to medium datasets of up to 1000 files of common  can be deposited with ADS via ADS-easy (https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/easy/. For datasets over 1000 files, please contact ADS directly. ADS will assist with metadata requirements, download/impact statistics and metadata sharing (machine based) free of charge. Data is accepted in a variety of formats, please see .  Please refer to the advice page on the ADS website () or submit an enquiry at help@archaeologydataservice.ac.uk

Historic Environment Scotland (HES)

Historic Environment Scotland (HES) can only accept data from within the scope of collection HES Archives: Digital Repository Management Policies (2020, 5): https://www.historicenvironment.scot/archives-and-research/publications…. HES will provide deposition and accession of archive and publication of compliant archive items free of charge as part of the National Record of the Historic Environment (), other services may have a cost incurred, please enquire for an exact costing. Please see guidance on how to submit data: or email digital.archives@hes.scot for enquires.

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW)

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW) can accept Welsh historic environment data of the flowing types: photographs, maps image, Datasets, Reports, shipwrecks, Maritime recording datasets and Archaeological surveys. RCAHMW will archive compliant data free of charge, but other services may have a cost incurred, please enquire for exact quote. Please email nmr.wales@rcahmw.gov.uk to submit data or make a related enquiry.

This data type is accepted by the Met Office. The Met Office will archive, quality control, ingest and disseminate (within certain constraints - defined by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)) meteorological data. This may be free although the Met Office may quote a cost for accessioning the data depending on the volume, type, media and quality of the data. The Met Office will accept meteorological data from ships, buoys, light vessels, coastal systems, rigs/platforms in plain text format defined in the WMO manual of codes. Please email gdac@metoffice.gov.uk to submit data or a related enquiry.

This data type is accepted by the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO). Please supply as much metadata as possible with the survey data but, as a minimum, we need to know the horizontal datum (e.g. WGS84), vertical datum (e.g. Chart Datum) and whether the data is gridded or is true position. The UKHO intends to make data available under the Open Government License whereby it is able to be used for any purpose without charge. If you, as a data supplier, do not want your data to be released under these conditions please make this clear when supplying it. All data received will be assessed by UKHO against the relevant navigational products and services and may be used to update them. This is regardless of any other conditions that may be imposed upon data use by the supplier. UKHO will archive compliant data for free, but other services may have a cost incurred. If you do not want the data used to check the correctness of the Admiralty chart then please do not supply the data. Please email customerservices@ukho.gov.uk to submit bathymetry data for archive or make a related enquiry.