Pan-European infrastructure for ocean & marine data management

European Directory of Marine Organisations (EDMO)

EDMO landing page

EDMO contains up-to-date addresses and activity profiles of research institutes, data holding centres, monitoring agencies, governmental and private organisations, that are in one way or another engaged in oceanographic and marine research activities, data & information management and/or data acquisition activities. Currently, EDMO lists and describes more than 4.000 organisations.

EDMO offers two interfaces, a regular HTML interface for "human users" and a SPARQL Endpoint for machine applications.

The SPARQL endpoint follows the W3C rules and allows data to be harvested and indexed by machines applications like search engines. On the SPARQL endpoints webpage you will find the references to documentation how to use it.