Data Management, Governance and MEDIN toolset

OceanWise Global > Data Management, Governance and MEDIN toolset

When you need to improve your data management skills

Who is it for / What will I learn?

This training course is suitable for anyone responsible for collecting or managing marine environmental data in the public sector, in industry or for education or research. Familiarity with different marine data types, and how data is acquired and used, would be helpful but not essential. Prior knowledge or practical experience of data management is not required.

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The course can be taken as a whole, or attendees can select modules. The course features interactive training and discussion sessions, quizzes, and assignments to help users become familiar with:

Why data management is important and how it can, and arguably should be, part of an organisation’s business management framework alongside quality, occupational health and safety, and information security
The role of a data policy and management plan, and how data can be shared, published and re-used
Data management principles, standards and components, including data lifecycle and quality, the role of vocabularies (or data dictionaries) and the importance of creating, maintaining and publishing metadata
The resources and other benefits of MEDIN, plus practical instruction in the use of the MEDIN data guidelines, metadata standard and controlled vocabularies
How data management ‘best practice’ can improve organisational efficiency in data acquisition, analysis, curation and sharing. It covers data use with respect to corporate risk, re-use, audit and traceability, whilst at the same time helping minimising costs

The course will equip attendees to better meet the challenge of keeping on top of the ever-increasing volumes and types of data that are being created and how to manage this data and make it available to users as meaningful information.

When is it held?

Please see our events page here for details on all our upcoming events and courses.

How do I book?

Places are booked via the OceanTeacher Global Academy website. Places are limited so please register in the below link to avoid disappointment.

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This training is a significant upgrade to my data management and other spheres of my professional development journey. I'm excited to implement the new knowledge and skills I acquired, furthering my contributions to Marine Conservation, Youth Capacity Development and Environmental Sustainability.

Paul Eweola - Young Explorer / Ocean Leader

International Hydrographic Organisation

The work that OceanWise does in data management epitomises the way in which the hydrographic community should be moving in the twenty first century.

Robert Ward - President

ABP Southampton

A good overview of the huge topic of data management with lots of ideas to take back to the workplace and to start to implement.

Becky Conway - Principal Hydrographic Surveyor

Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association

Thank you guys, the Marine SDI workshop discussion groups were brilliant. The explanations of what an SDI is all about were easily understood and the interactive break-out sessions helped people identify with their day to day challenges and how they might be addressed.

Roger Longhorn - Secretary-General

ABP Southampton

The 'Introduction to GIS' course provided by OceanWise was much more useful than the vendor specific course as it had a marine focus and related much more to the work I do day to day.

Sam Quilliam - Hydrographic Surveyor

Port Training

OceanWise made what is a dry topic very accessible to the people who need to implement it, and certainly aroused interest from the group present – who, when they become harbour masters in their own right, will need to address this issue

Jonathan Warren