other marine data standards
There are a number of existing standards to improve the reuse and exchange of marine data. These are under consideration by MEDIN and should be used in the absence of anything more suitable.
metadata standards
• The metadata discovery standard produced by INSPIRE, which is also based on ISO 19115.
• ISO 19115 (Geographic Information - Metadata) is an international standard that sets out a number of metadata fields for describing spatial information datasets. ISO 19139 (Geographic Information - Metadata - XML schema implementation) is the standard that aims to define an XML encoding for the metadata elements defined in ISO 19115.
• The UK GEMINI Discovery Metadata Standard is a defined element set for describing geo-spatial, discovery-level metadata within the United Kingdom. It is derived from, and therefore compliant with, ISO 19115 Geographic Information – Metadata and the UK eGovernment Metadata Standard (eGMS). GEMINI was originated by the Association for Geographic Information and is currently being revised to produce GEMINI 2.
data guidelines
Marine Geology and Geophysics:
Marine Survey Data Management Handbook v1. British Geological Survey
Mapping European Seabed Habitats (MESH) Guidelines
IHO standard for Hydrographic Surveys, Special Publication S-44
MCA requirements for survey reporting
ICES multibeam echosounder data
Marine Biology:
Seeley, B., Parr, J., Evans, J. and Lear, D. (2008) Establishing best practice for the documentation and dissemination of marine biological data
Physical/Biological/Chemical Oceanography Measurements:
The ICES Working Group on Data and Information Management
