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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, sci 
ence 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 develop 
ments (ISO standards, specifications by the Open Geospatial Consortium OGC 
and World Wide Web W3C), 
• Compliance with European and national guidelines (Infrastructure for Spatial In 
formation 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).