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<p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt">Dear MEDIN colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt">We are delighted to announce that the MEDIN Annual Report for 2022-2023 is now live on the MEDIN website!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt">It features our highlights and achievements over the last year from all aspects of MEDIN’s work, including the progress on providing easy access to marine datasets, data managed by our Data Archive Centres, marine data standards
and how we supported new and emerging technology throughout the year. The report explains areas of increased performance since last year, including an 80% increase in use of the MEDIN portal to find UK marine data, 40% higher uptake of our data guidelines
to make data easier to reuse and nearly 30% increase in requests for data. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt">Read the report: <a href="https://medin.org.uk/sites/medin/files/documents/AnnualReport_2023_final.pdf" target="_blank" title="https://medin.org.uk/sites/medin/files/documents/annualreport_2023_final.pdf">
https://medin.org.uk/sites/medin/files/documents/AnnualReport_2023_final.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt">Thank you for your ongoing support of MEDIN,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:6.0pt">Charlotte <o:p></o:p></p>
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