Outreach Documents

Documents about and by MMI.

Please note: This page is now superceded by the dynamically generated "MMI in the Community" page

Resources

These are general documents useful to explain or promote MMI.

MMI Brochure: Produced 2007 by Caryn Neiswender et al.

MMI Postcard: Produced 2006 by Caryn Neiswender et al.

Bibliographic References at MMI

Citations and abstracts that are stored in a database convenient for download are at the link /biblio.

Released Documents

The following documents are available for download and public distribution. You may print and distribute any of these documents in unaltered form. Please contact an MMI Steering Committee member if you wish to modify a document, or include parts of it in another document.

The document type PPT refers to a Microsoft Powerpoint document, while Key-Zip refers to an Apple Keynote document in a compressed (zip) file.

Title Type Last Update Native Format PDF Other
Marine Metadata Interoperability: When Will We Get Ours? (USGS Coastal/Marine Geology, Santa Cruz, CA) Presentation 2008.10.14 19M (Key-Zip) 6.5M
Sensor Intereoperability: What's Missing? (Ocean Science 2008, Orlando, FL) Poster 2008.04.15 1.0M (Key-Zip) 0.2M
Ontology Resources (IODE/JCOMM Metadata Standards, Oostende, Belgium) Presentation 2008.01.22 2.6M (Key-Zip) 5.0M
Instrument Vocabularies Review (IODE/JCOMM Metadata Standards, Oostende, Belgium) Presentation 2008.01.25 1.8M (Key-Zip) 0.2M
DIVE Into Metadata with MMI! Poster 2007.12.01 4.2 MB Abstract
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MMI:Increasing Community Collaboration Poster 2007.12.10 .85 M Abstract
Building Community and Governance of Metadata and Ontologies Within the Marine Community (Fall AGU) Presentation 2007.12.14 7.6M (Key-Zip) 1.2M
Marine Interoperability Efforts and Standards: What's Missing? (AGU Fall Meeting, Washington, DC) Presentation 2007.12.13 3.9M (Key-Zip) 0.6M
A Prototype Ontology Tool and Interface for Coastal Atlas Interoperability (Fall AGU) Poster 44w x 34h 2007.12.14 3.1M (PPT) 0.7M
Maximizing Community Engagement in Technical Standards and Interoperability: Experiences and Ideas (NASA Software Process Group, Philadelphia, PA) Presentation 2007.10.26 5.0M (Key-Zip) 2.9M
Marine Metadata Interoperability (MMI) & OOSTethys: A State of Interoperability (Ocean Observatories Initiative Cyberinfrastructure Team, San Diego, CA) Presentation 2007.10.18 13M (Key-Zip) 7.7M
The Marine Metadata Interoperability Project: Images need their 1000 words (Ocean Biodiversity Informatics Conference 2007, Canada) 2007.09.21 3.6M Web
Integrating Ocean Observing Systems (IUGG 2007, Perugia, Italy) Presentation 2007.07.04 12M (PPT)
Marine Metadatat Interoperability (Sensors)
(NIST Sensor Stds Harmonization WG)
Presentation 2007.06.26 10M (PPT) 10M
Semantic Mediator Architecture for Environmental Science
(Geoinformatics 2007, San Diego,CA)
Presentation 2007.05.15 6.0M (PPT)
Vocabulary Integration Environment: VINE (CCC 2007, Bogota, Colombia) Paper, Presentation 2007.03.16, 2007.04.15
2.0M (PPT)
0.5M
Report on MMI Sensor Metadata Interoperability Workshop (to SeaDataNet Technical Team) Presentation 2007.03.21 1.2M
MMI: Making Data Management Easier (to SeaDataNet) Presentation 2007.03.19 5.7M (PPT) 7.5M
MMI Comments to North American Profile of ISO 19115 Review Document 2007.03.11
0.1M
Semantics and OPenDAP (OPeNDAP-DEVs 2007, Boulder, CO) Presentation 2007.02.22 (Cancelled) 0.7M
Automatic harvesting of metadata using OGC Sensor Observation Services in OOSTethys (IWAMHDM 2006, San Diego, CA) Presentation 2006.11.14 1.3M (Key-Zip) 1.4M
A Marine Platforms Ontology: Experiences and Lessons (SSN06 2006, Athens, GA) Presentation 2006.11.06 1.8M (PPT)
Expert Classification vs Folksonomies: Solutions for a Technical Community (IAMSLIC 2006, Portland, OR) Presentation 2006.10.11 15M (Key-Zip) 2.0M
Toward an Ocean Observing System of Systems (Oceans'06, Boston, MA) Paper, Presentation 2006.07.20, 2006.09.20 1.5M (PPT)
Esperanto, Klingon, or Other: Implications for Global Interoperability (Oceans'06, Boston, MA) Paper
Presentation
2006.07.20
2006.09.20
0.1M (Word)
6.7M (PPT)
0.2M
1.4M
When Hydrospheres Collide: Lessons in Practical Environmental Ontologies (Oceans'06, Boston, MA)
(paper)
Presentation
(pending)
2006.09.12
3.4M (PPT) 0.7M
Marine Metadata Interoperability: What Will It Take? (WHOI Invited Presentation, Woods Hole, ME)
Presentation 2006.06.20 7.9M (PPT)
Controlled Vocabularies and Semantic Mediation (GO-ESSP, LLNL, Livermore, CA)
Presentation 2006.06.23 2.6M (PPT)
Ontologies in the SWE World - OGC Web Services, Phase 4 (OWS-4) Kickoff Meeting (Oracle, Reston, VA)
Presentation 2006.06.14 1.9M (PPT)
MMI - general poster
Poster 53w X 41h 2006.06.07 2.6M (PPT)
An Ontology for Marine Observables (changed from An Ontology for Instrument Platforms) (Baltimore, MA, USA)
Presentation 2006.05.25 2.8M (PPT)
Conversations with an Ocean Observing System (Herndon, VA)
Presentation 2006.05.12 3.1M (PPT) 0.9M
The Marine Metadata Interoperability Project - Web Services (Herndon, VA, USA)
Poster 2006.05.11 1.6M (PPT) 1.0M
The Marine Metadata Interoperabillity Project (SECOORA, NC, USA)
Presentation 2006.03.10 0.1M
Metadata Guides for Smarties (Oceans 2006, Hawaii, USA)
Poster 2006.02.17 0.7M (PPT)
0.8M
Speeding Up Ontology Creation (AGU, San Francisco, CA, USA)
Presentation
2005.12.06
2.2M (PPT)


Integrating Distributed Data Systems Using Ontologies, Web Services and Standards: An MMI Case Study (AGU, San Francisco, CA, USA) Presentation 2005.12.06 2.3M (PPT)
7.4M
Why are Ontologies Important (QARTOD 3, San Diego, CA, USA) Presentation
2005.11.02
2.2M (PPT) 5.9M
Making SOAP web services semantically understandable (OOSTech, Baltimore, MD, USA) Presentation
2005.10.25
1.6M (PPT) 2.8M
MMI: Defining and Doing Marine Metadata Interoperability (GEON) Presentation
2005.10.10
5.5M (PPT) 1.6 Webcast
Construction of Marine Vocabularies in the Marine Metadata Interoperability Project (Oceans 2005 - Washington) Paper
Presentation

2005.09.20
4.9M (PPT)
7.3M
The MMI Project: An International Community Framework
International Marine Data Interoperability (France)
Paper
Presentation

2005.06.03

3.7M (PPT)

0.9M
Metadata with MMI: Opening the Door for Collaboration (IEEE Data Interoperability Workshop, Italy) Paper
Presentation
2005.04.15
2005.06.20
0.4M (Word)
0.9M (PPT)
0.6M
0.8M
AGU Town Meeting Presentation Presentation 2004.12.15 v1.0 2.1M (PPT) n/a
MMI Postcard 4x6 Handout 2004.11.30 v1.0 824K (PPT) 5.0M
About the MMI Presentation 2004.11.10 v1.0 0.1M (PPT) 0.2M
MMI: Introduction and Overview Presentation 2005.05.17 1.9M (PPT) 0.9M