Vocabularies & Standards References
MMI provides a set of references to various standards, vocabularies, ontologies, thesauri, services, and formats that are of particular interest to the marine science community or those working on interoperability. MMI has evaluated many of the listed references and provides a description, an informal characterization of its maturity, in some cases, and link to a primary resource where available. If you would like to see a reference added, please contact us or sign up for an MMI account and add it yourself. You may also search all references.
MMI has categorized its references in the following sets: Vocabularies, Ontologies and Thesauri, Content Standards, and Services, Protocols and Formats.
Title | Description | Reference Type | Reference Topics |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Universal Ontology for Sensor Networks Data | |||
| ABCD: Access to Biological Data Collections | A data and metadata specification for the exchange of biological collections and observations data | ||
| ACT Sensors List | List of sensors developed by the Alliance for Coastal Technologies | ||
| Agency Portals | Agency portals which enable discovery and download of marine geoscience metadata and data. | ||
| AGU Index Terms | Thesaurus for indexing AGU journal articles and meeting abstracts, covering earth science concepts | ||
| Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) Gazetteer | Gazetteer services provided by Alexandria Digital Library from Map and Imagery Lab, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). | ||
| All Ontologies hosted at MMI | List of all the ontologies hosted at (and/or referenced by) MMI | ||
| All References at MMI | All MMI metadata references | ||
| Animal Behavior Ontology | Ontology describing animal behavior. | ||
| Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) | Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) is a paid service providing references to international literative covering marine environments. | ||
| Arctic Observing Network Data Questionnaire | Summary results of the AON data questionnaire (link to details provided). | ||
| Argo Instrument List | Instrument code list from Argo | ||
| Argo Parameters and quality control code lists | List of parameter and quality control codes from Argo | ||
| Autonomous Mission Operations for Sensor Webs Ontology | An ontology being developed for software agents operating a Sensor Web | ||
| Auxiliary Description of Instruments | This is a project under development in GCMD to allow instrument metadata in GCMD data submissions that use the Directory Interchange Format. | ||
| Axis | Axis is an open-source implementation of SOAP; part of the Apache Web Services project. | ||
| BIDM | Basic Interoperability Data Model (BIDM) is a IEEE standard (1420.1) for interoperable software cataloging on the Internet; it defines the minimal set of information about assets that reuse libraries should be able to exchange to support interoperability. | ||
| Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG): Vocabularies and Ontologies | Collection of vocabularies and ontologies from TDWG for biodiversity | ||
| Biodiversity Resource Information Ontology | An ontology describing resources important in biodiversity information management. | ||
| Biological Data Profile for the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata | This is an official profile of the FGDC's Content Standard for Geospatial Metadata for biological data. It is used by the US National Biological Information Infrastructure. | ||
| BioPortal 2.0 | |||
| BODC (British Oceanographic Data Centre) Units | The BODC units table, consisting of all the units codes used in BODC parameter lists. | ||
| BODC Instruments List | List of instruments used by the British Oceanographic Data Centre | ||
| BODC Parameter Ontology Project | The British Oceanographic Data Centre is creating an ontology to link the BODC Parameter Discovery Vocabulary, the CF Standard Names and the GCMD Science Keywords | ||
| BOG CTD Bottle Data Field Names | MBARI's Biological Ocean Group (BOG) CTD Bottle Data Field Names |
