Welcome to the MMI Guides

The goal of the Guides is to help researchers and data managers follow best practices in metadata development, interoperation, and distribution, and to foster community involvement in this process. To reach these goals, we have distilled the more complex aspects of marine metadata into easily accessible documents. The MMI Guides are a learning environment, which we hope will facilitate both technical understanding and an appreciation of the role and importance of marine metadata. Please read our recommendations on how to get the most out of this section.

If, in the process of reading our guides, you need additional information, or if you'd like to contribute your experiences with marine metadata, please let us know!

We hope you find this section informative and useful!
- MMI Guides Editorial Group

Citing the Guides

To cite an individual guide, please follow the citation example found on that guide page.  To cite the MMI Guides as a whole, please use:  Stocks, K.I., Neiswender, C., Isenor, A.W., Graybeal, J., Galbraith, N., Montgomery, E.T., Alexander, P., Watson, S., Bermudez, L., Gale, A., Hogrefe, K.,  2009.  The MMI Guides: Navigating the World of Marine Metadata.  http://marinemetadata.org/guides.  Accessed dd/mm/yyyy.