EMODnet Data Submission Service

WAKE UP YOUR DATA – Set them free for Blue Society 

The European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) is a long-term marine data initiative from the European Commission Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE). EMODnet is a consortium of organisations that work together to assemble quality-insured, standardised and harmonised marine data, metadata and products, making them more accessible to Blue Society. 

The EMODnet Data Ingestion Portal is developed to facilitate and streamline the process where marine data from whatever source is delivered on a voluntary basis for safekeeping and further distribution. 

The aims of the EMODnet ingestion project are to reach out to organisations from public, research and private sectors who are managing marine datasets and who are not yet connected and contributing to existing marine data management infrastructures. We hope to motivate and support potential data providers to release their datasets.  

Do you have any suitable marine data which are not being routinely archived and made accessible yet and could potentially be submitted? Please have a think, as any data would be great at this stage! Use the EMODnet Data Ingestion Portal to submit your marine datasets.  

There are many advantages of releasing your data and making it available! Costs can be saved, duplication of effort can be avoided and it allows your data to have greater impact by ensuring it reaches a much wider audience for future re-use.  

Once data are ingested via the portal, data are passed to the appropriate expert national data centres for open access data publishing and further integration into EMODnet data services and products. In the UK, MEDIN (Marine Environmental Data & Information Network) acts as a hub for UK marine data and operates via a network of Data Archive Centres (DACs). For example the British Geological Survey (BGS) is the MEDIN DAC for Geology and Geophysics and the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) is the MEDIN DAC for Oceanographic data.  

If you have any queries or would like help with submitting your data, please email BGS offshoredata@bgs.ac.uk or BODC enquiries@bodc.ac.uk.