Metadata standards and interoperability: examples and tools

- Dealing with data and metadata:

• Metadata in SeaDataNet/EMODnet directories.
• Common Data Inedx (CDI): SeaDataNet metadata content standard.
• Metadata format for reporting on cruises (Cruise Summary Report- CSR), dataset (European Directory of Marine Environmental Data sets EDMED), projects (EDMERP) and organisations (EDMO).
• SeaDataNet NVS controlled vocabularies (for metadata and data).
  Data submission in the EMODnet Ingestion Workflow (phases for data submitters, metadata, and NODC processing).

- Software for ocean data and metadata management.

- SeaDataNet Metadata formatting tools:

• MIKADO: for editing and generating XML metadata entries for the for the SeaDataNet directories EDMED, CSR, EDMERP and CDI.

- SeaDataNet Data formatting tools:

• NEMO: for conversion of any ASCII format to all SeaDataNet data formats (ODV ASCII, NetCDF (CF) and MedAtlas).
• OCTOPUS: a multi-format splitter and converter tool to to convert files in a given SeaDataNet format to another SeaDataNet format (e.g. ODV to NetCDF, MedAtlas to NetCDF, MedAtlas to ODV).

SeaDataNet Access: https://www.seadatanet.org/Data-Access
MIKADO download: https://www.seadatanet.org/Software/MIKADO/Download-MIKADO
NEMO download: https://www.seadatanet.org/Software/NEMO