Welcome to the Marine Metadata Interoperability Project

"Promoting the exchange, integration and use of marine data through enhanced data publishing, discovery, documentation and accessibility."

Our goal is to support collaborative research in the marine science domain, by simplifying the incredibly complex world of metadata into specific, straightforward guidance. MMI encourages scientists and data managers at all levels to apply good metadata practices from the start of a project, by providing the best guidance and resources for data management, and developing advanced metadata tools and services needed by the community.

Posted December 7th, 2008 by graybeal

West Coast Coastal Atlas Workshop

ICAN Icon On April 23 to 24, 2009, a West Coast Coastal Atlas Workshop was hosted by the Washington State Department of Ecology and the NOAA Coastal Services Center at the NOAA Western Regional Center in Seattle, Washington, USA. The workshop brought together, for the very first time, over 30 participants from Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California to discuss coastal atlas interoperability issues.

Posted June 17th, 2009 by deepseadawn

Additions and improvements to the MMI Guides

The Guides Team has been working very hard this year in order to advance and expand the MMI Guides. We recently published an enhanced Ontologies section that includes many new guides, greatly expands other guides, and improves the organization of the section. This brings the total number of guides to 76, each professionally reviewed by experienced metadata practitioners.

We have also implemented a new format for the Guides, with many new features. We encourage you to read about them and take a look for yourself.

Posted April 10th, 2009 by agale

The Promise of Sensor Web Enablement

Sensor web enablement on mine environmental monitoringIn a January, 2009 article in SA Instrumentation & Control, the promise of the semantic web is shown using a mining industry example. By implementing freely available tools and services, this case study illustrates the benefit of interoperability, combining multiple data streams in a single interface. Partially based on the tools developed by OOSTethys, this system presents data and graphs in a user-friendly web-accesible search engine.
Posted February 5th, 2009 by carynn
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