MEDIN Webinar Series 2025: Webinar 2 - Interoperability in Action: Data Standards and Marine Applications

This webinar series is hosted by the Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN), a UK initiative dedicated to improving access to high-quality marine data. MEDIN works with organisations across sectors to promote best practices in marine data management, ensuring data is discoverable, accessible, and reusable for the long term.

Throughout the year, once per month, this series will feature one-hour online sessions led by expert guest speakers, each focusing on specialised topics not typically covered in MEDIN’s regular free online workshops. These webinars are designed to support better data stewardship and highlight emerging tools, standards, and approaches in marine data.

Sessions will be recorded and made available on the MEDIN YouTube channel, creating a lasting resource for the marine data community.

Whether you are new to marine data management or have years of experience, and no matter which sector you work in, these sessions are designed to be inclusive, informative, and accessible to all who are interested in improving the way marine data is managed and shared.

Webinar 2 - Interoperability in Action: Data Standards and Marine Applications

• MEDIN Marine Data Standards and Guidelines - tbc (MEDIN)

  This presentation offers a practical introduction to the MEDIN Marine Data Standards and Guidelines, designed to support consistent, high-quality marine data management. It will outline the purpose and structure of the standards, explain how they promote interoperability and data reuse, and demonstrate their relevance across a range of marine sectors.

• Data standards and interoperability - A view from Ordnance Survey - Allan Jamieson (Ordnance Survey)

  Geospatial data interoperability between data suppliers and data users alike is a persistent problem. In an age where no single organisation holds all the data necessary for particular use cases, increased data interoperability is both desirable and essential. Geospatial data standards when consistently applied can be part of the solution. The longer-term goal, interoperability between the land and the sea.

• Marine data use in ports - Katie Eades (OceanWise)

  Having worked with Ports for 15 years - we have seen many changes in the adoption and practical implication of marine data management. This presentation discusses the changes that we have seen with a number of case studies and some best practice lessons on how ports are managing and utilizing marine data to improve safety / improve efficiencies