Abstract of an Oral Presentation or a Poster

North Sea

Long-term datasets are important to study global trends in the environment and to define a reference status of an ecosystem. Results of analyses on such datasets allow policy makers to define proper strategies to reach regulatory objectives. Access to these data is also a crucial issue for the scientific community. Belgium has a long oceanographic data collection history. In that context, the Belgian Marine Data Center (BMDC), with its continuously growing experience in data rescuing and management, worked out a tool to identify the marine datasets and retrieve as much data as possible. The Data Inventory and Tracking System (DITS) (dits.bmdc.be) was designed by BMDC in the frame of the project ‘4 Decades of Belgian Marine Monitoring: uplifting historical data to today’s needs’ (www.4DEMON.be). Poster Presentation at IMDIS2016.