The Norwegian Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal affairs have identified the importance of an operational national service and competence centre for marine data. The national infrastructure, the Norwegian Marine Data Centre (NMDC), will be the focal access point for marine data in Norway. NMDC is a continuation of an earlier infrastructure project and aims to serve the marine science community with seamless access to documented marine data sets covering waters of Norwegian interest. All the marine data from UiT - UiT The Arctic University of Norway will be published here. More informations can be found at NMDC website (www.nmdc.no).