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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Dear MEDIN Standards Working Group,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Please find below the details of the next MEDIN standards and tools workshop. I would be grateful if you could distribute the announcement to any
colleagues who may be interested in attending.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Clare<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">MEDIN Metadata Standards and Tools Workshop</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Tuesday 8<sup>th</sup> October 2013, 9:30 – 16:00<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">MEDIN is pleased to announce that a MEDIN Metadata Standards and Tools Workshop will take place at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton on Tuesday 8<sup>th</sup> October
2013. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Aim: To improve the knowledge and use of MEDIN standards and the tools that support them.
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The workshop comprises a series of talks, demonstrations and practicals to help users become familiar with:
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">· The MEDIN discovery metadata standard.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">· MEDIN data guidelines<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">· Controlled vocabularies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Location</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">: National Oceanography Centre,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">European Way<br>
Southampton SO14 3ZH<br>
United Kingdom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The workshop will start at 9:30, and run to 4:00pm.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Lunch and refreshments will be provided, including a vegetarian option. Please let me know if you have any other dietary requirements.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">About MEDIN</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN) is a partnership of UK organisations committed to improving access to marine data. Our partners are both public and
private sector. Visit our website at </span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.oceannet.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://www.oceannet.org/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Further Information</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Contact Clare Postlethwaite (</span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:cfpo@bodc.ac.uk"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">cfpo@bodc.ac.uk</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">)
if there is something that you would particularly like to learn during the workshop and we will do our best to accommodate it within the programme.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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