Die  Küste,  81  (2014),  29-43

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Figure  5:  MDI-DE  portal  www.mdi-de.org.
5  Conclusions
The  new,  highly-innovative  information  and  communication  technology  of  MDI-DE
provides  a  common  marine  spatial  data  infrastructure  for  management  of  marine  data:
•  Integration  and  access  to  data  with  services  for  policy,  business,  administration,  science ­
  and  die  public  via  a  single  and  common  web-portal,
•  Harmonization,  standardization  and  quality  assurance  of  available  and  in  future  to
be  collected  data,
•  Consideration  of  metadata  and  services  for  modeling  scenarios,
•  Technological  implementation  by  using  the  most  current  standards  and  developments ­
  (ISO  standards,  specifications  by  the  Open  Geospatial  Consortium  OGC
and  World  Wide  Web  W3C),
•  Compliance  with  European  and  national  guidelines  (Infrastructure  for  Spatial  Information ­
  in  Europe  INSPIRE,  Water  Framework  Directive  WFD,  Natura  2000,
the  Marine  Strategy  Framework  Directive  MSFD  or  at  the  Federal  level,  the  Spatial
Data  Infrastructure  Germany  GDI-DE  and  the  environmental  Information  Portal
of  the  Federal  government  PortalU).