Marine Metadata Interoperability (MMI) project's mission seeks to promote the exchange, integration and use of marine data through enhanced data publishing, discovery, documentation and accessibility.

As its goal, Marine Metadata Interoperability promotes collaborative research in the marine science domain by simplifying the incredibly complex world of metadata into specific, straightforward guidance. MMI hopes to encourage scientists and data managers at all levels to apply good metadata practices from the start of a project by providing the best advice and resources for data management.

MMI is also developing web applications and stand-alone tools to enable sophisticated interactions across marine data systems.

National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC) Scientist Julie Bosch is a member of the MMI Steering Committee.