Metadata & Data The Common Data Index (CDI) is the central data discovery service for Emodnet enabling users to have a detailed insight of the availability and geographical extent of data, archived at the connected data centres. It gives the description of individual data sets and measurements with key fields (what, where, when, how, who etc.). It is based upon SeaDataNet CDI metadataformat and tools. The data can be downloaded and accessed following SeaDataNet Data policy and User licence - Download the SeaDataNet Data Policy - SeaDataNet Data Access Policy NEW Discovery interface of CDI by a Matrix of Variables vs Marine Regions: The CDI data discovery including its services for authentication accessing, and downloading is driven by the underlying central SeaDataNet database and infrastructure of connected data centres. Users can freely search and browse the CDI discovery services and identify relevant data sets.
The metadata and aggregated data products (GIS layers) in the EMODNET pilot are public domain and freely available for all users. However for data access (= downloading) the EMODNET pilot must respect the data copyrights of owners (see SeaDataNet Data policy and User licence ), in particular for the background. For the chemical data the standard ODV ASCII data format is adopted.
Quality check is performed by the owner and a quality flag is added to each measured value followin Seadatanet Standard .
QC and QA basic guidelines
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