Marine Geology & Geophysics Vocabulary Integration

mggvoc
SESAR NGDC-WDC MGDS
System for Earth Sample Registration (SESAR) www.geosamples.org National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) www.ngdc.noaa.gov Marine Geoscience Data System (MGDS) www.marine-geo.org
Participants from SESAR, NGDC, and MGDS are working collaboratively to develop controlled vocabularies for metadata elements including:
  • platform id (e.g. ship name)
  • platform type
  • collection id (e.g. cruise name)
  • equipment type
  • sample type
  • sample classification