| The Marine Environmental Data Inventory (MEDI) is a directory system for datasets, data catalogues and data inventories within the framework of the IOC's International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) programme. It has been set up to ensure the widest possible coverage of data holdings and included a review of existing national and international data directory systems as well as implications of inter-operability with similar systems within other international organizations. The development of MEDI was recommended in 1971 by the Joint Task Team on Interdisciplinary and Inter-organizational Data and Information Management and Referral (IMAR). The MEDI Catalogue was published in 1979 (1st Edition, IOC Manuals and Guides No. 10), 1985 (2nd... |
