Report on the Medi Pilot Project

Abstract

The Marine Environmental Data Information Referral Catalogue (MEDI) is a directory system for datasets, data catalogues and data inventories within the framework of the IOC's International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) system. The IOC Working Group on International Oceanographic Data Exchange (now IOC Committee on International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange - IODE) at its Fifth Session (September 1971) recommended the establishment of a Joint Task Team on Interdisciplinary and Inter-organizational Data and Information Management and Referral (IMAR), with participation by interested international organisations. The team was asked to assess on-going information and data management activities within the respective organisations and to develop a multi disciplinary referral system for providing users with information as to availability and location of environmental data.