data guidelines
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Data guidelines are sets of requirements that must be recorded when data of a certain type is being collected. MEDIN-approved guidelines are available below. Further information on how the guidelines are structured and xls templates for the data are available here.
Benthic invertebrate sediment sampling by grab or core (15jul10) |
Guideline |
The principle benefits of these standards are to:
- Instill good practice amongst users
- Allow contracting organisations to specify a format that data should be returned in that can be readily used and includes all relevant attributes
- Provide a consistent format for contractors to work to (rather than a different format for each contract)
- Allow easy ingestion of data to Data Archiving Centres
- Improve interoperability between organisations by proving a format which can be used to import and export data
MEDIN are in the process of deriving guidelines for other physical oceanographic measurements, noise, biology and seabed mapping and geophysics. If you wish to provide input to this process please contact enquiries@oceannet.org. In the interim period while further guidelines are being written and approved by MEDIN we recommend that other marine data standards should be used.