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Name

European Directory of Marine Environmental Datasets Schema

alternativ Name

EDMED

Web Link

https://www.seadatanet.org/Standards/Metadata-formats/EDMED

Description

The European Directory of Marine Environmental Data (EDMED) is a comprehensive reference to the marine data sets and collections held within European research laboratories, so as to provide marine scientists, engineers and policy makers with a simple mechanism for their identification. It covers a wide range of disciplines including marine meteorology; physical, chemical and biological oceanography; sedimentology; marine biology and fisheries; environmental quality; coastal and estuarine studies; marine geology and geophysics; etc. Data sets are described in EDMED irrespective of their format (e.g. digital databases or files, analogue records, paper charts, hard-copy tabulations, photographs and videos, geological samples, biological specimens etc).

Used by Disciplines

Oceanography

Keywords

marine data