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<div>All,</div>
<div>The MEDIN discovery metadata generation tool can be viewed at <a href="http://www.dassh.ac.uk/medin_metadata"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.dassh.ac.uk/medin_metadata</u></font></a><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">
Could you please take a look and provide any comments </font><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">to </font><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Becky Seeley [bese@MBA.ac.uk]</font><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"> and cc me in (</font><a href="mailto:mecha@bodc.ac.uk"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#0000FF"><u>mecha@bodc.ac.uk</u></font></a><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">)</font><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">
by </font><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">25th August</font><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">. For background we expect that this tool will be used by </font><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><b>non metadata experts</b></font><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">
to generate MEDIN complient metadata. Other similar tools exist such as</font><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"> the</font><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"> INSPIRE</font><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"> metadata editor</font><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">
</font><a href="http://www.inspire-geoportal.eu/index.cfm/pageid/342"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2" color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.inspire-geoportal.eu/index.cfm/pageid/342</u></font></a></div>
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<div><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Also - the Data Guideline on '<font size="2" color="#666666"><b>Sediment sampling by grab or core for benthos</b></font><font size="2" color="#666666"><b>' </b></font><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="2" color="#666666">has
been published </font><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="2" color="#666666">at </font><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="2" color="#666666"><a href="http://www.oceannet.org/marine_data_standards/medin_approved_standards/">http://www.oceannet.org/marine_data_standards/medin_approved_standards/</a></font><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="2" color="#666666">
and we have added some Quick Links to </font><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="2" color="#666666">the</font><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="2" color="#666666"> MEDIN standards </font><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="2" color="#666666">web</font><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="2" color="#666666">pages.</font><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="2" color="#666666">
Any comments are welcome.</font></font></div>
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<div><font color="#666666">Best Wishes</font></div>
<div><font color="#666666">Mark</font></div>
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