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Marine Environmental Data and Information Referral System (MEDI) |
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MEDI was terminated as a project by the 20th Session of the IODE Committee (2009). It was decided that future development and managementof MEDI would be handled by the JCOMM/IODE ETDMP .
What was...
MEDI was an inventory of information about marine related datasets and is used within the framework of the IOC's International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) system. The MEDI system has been operational within the IODE community since 1979, initially as IOC Manuals and Guides.
The objectives of MEDI were:
"to maintain a global inventory of data holdings held in the IOC Member States and agencies with the following specifications:
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the inventory is a compilation of input assembled by IOC Member States and relevant agencies;
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the inventory will allow the end-user to search, as a minimum, on location, data type, temporal resolution and organizational parameters;
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the inventory will provide the end-user with information describing the selected data holdings and their sources;
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the system will ensure the widest possible coverage of data holdings in Member States.
The MEDI directory has been developed to provide a reference point for locating marine and coastal datasets and will be populated with metadata descriptions of marine datasets from IOC member states.
The MEDI authoring tool has been developed to encourage data collectors and scientists to produce metadata descriptions for their datasets. The MEDI system allows users to
- Search for regional or global datasets
- Submit metadata description to the MEDI directory"
Project Management
The MEDI project was managed by the IODE Steering Group for the MEDI Project.
Workplan
Below you will find the SG-MEDI workplan as adopted at SG-MEDI-VI and revised after IODE-XIX (status as on 2 May 2007):
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Action Item
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Status
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(i) Review ISO19115 compliant metadata authoring tools, including
GeoNetwork tool and the Canadian metadata tool) and recommend a suitable
tool for use by the IODE community. |
to be completed by September 2007
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| (ii) Transfer all old MEDI records to the new metadata system |
to be completed by December 2007
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(iii) Develop training materials for Ocean Teacher in the use of the new
metadata authoring tool |
January 2008-April 2008
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(iv) Provide leadership in defining the metadata requirements for the
Ocean Data Portal and work closely with the proposed development project |
June 2007-June 2008
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Project Documentation and Meeting reports
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IODE Steering Group for MEDI, Third Session, Drexel University
Philadelphia, USA, 11-13 September 2006 |
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Second Session of the IODE Steering Group for MEDI
Honolulu, USA, 2-4 April 2002 |
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First Session of the IODE Steering Group for MEDI
Oostende, Belgium, 23-27 April 2001 |
Find out more about MEDI from the web site: http://ioc.unesco.org/medi/
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Last Updated on Thursday, 18 March 2010 14:34 |
