NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NOAA InPort Metadata Catalog

InPort is the authoritative metadata repository for NOAA Fisheries and the National Ocean Service and the NOAA-wide platform for data management plans. Catalog records describe data products, services, projects, and contacts; the public-facing site supports search and item retrieval, while web service endpoints support catalog-item path lookup and contact management. Public API endpoints are stabilising — full machine-to-machine surface is in beta.

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Documentation
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/

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ChangeLog
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/release-notes

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: noaa-gov:inport-metadata-api
name: NOAA InPort Metadata Catalog
description: InPort is the authoritative metadata repository for NOAA Fisheries and the National Ocean
  Service and the NOAA-wide platform for data management plans. Catalog records describe data products,
  services, projects, and contacts; the public-facing site supports search and item retrieval, while web
  service endpoints support catalog-item path lookup and contact management. Public API endpoints are
  stabilising — full machine-to-machine surface is in beta.
humanURL: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/
baseURL: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport
tags:
- Metadata
- Catalog
- Fisheries
- Ocean
properties:
- url: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/
  type: Documentation
- url: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/release-notes
  type: ChangeLog