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<div style="text-align: center; "><b>MEDIN Metadata Standards and Tools Workshop</b></div>
<div style="text-align: center; "><b>Tuesday 28</b><font size="1"><sup><b>th</b></sup></font><b> January</b><b> 201</b><b>4</b><b>, 9:30 – 16:00</b></div>
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<div>MEDIN is pleased to announce that, due to popular demand, another MEDIN Metadata Standards and Tools Workshop will take place at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton on Tuesday 28<font size="1"><sup>th</sup></font> January 2014. </div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 10pt; "><b>Aim:</b> To improve the knowledge and use of MEDIN standards and the tools that support them. The workshop comprises a series of talks, demonstrations and practicals to help users become familiar with: </div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 10pt; padding-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt; ">· The MEDIN discovery metadata standard.</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 10pt; padding-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt; ">· MEDIN data guidelines</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 10pt; padding-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt; ">· Controlled vocabularies</div>
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<div><b>Location:</b> National Oceanography Centre,</div>
<div style="padding-left: 72pt; ">European Way<br>
Southampton SO14 3ZH<br>
United Kingdom</div>
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<div>The workshop will start at 9:30, and run to 4:00pm. </div>
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<div>Lunch and refreshments will be provided, including a vegetarian option. Please let me know if you have any other dietary requirements.</div>
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<div><b>About MEDIN</b></div>
<div>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 <a href="http://www.oceannet.org/"><font color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.oceannet.org/</u></font></a></div>
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<div><b>Register</b></div>
<div>Places are limited so please register for the workshop by emailing Clare Postlethwaite (cfpo@bodc.ac.uk) </div>
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<div><b>Further I</b><b>nformation</b></div>
<div>Contact Clare Postlethwaite (<a href="mailto:cfpo@bodc.ac.uk"><font color="#0000FF"><u>cfpo@bodc.ac.uk</u></font></a>) 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.</div>
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<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">Dr. Clare Postlethwaite</font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="2"><i>British Oceanographic Data Centre</i></font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="2"><i>6 Brownlow Street</i></font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" size="2"><i>Liverpool</i></font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif">Tel: 0151 7954949</font></div>
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