| Agency Portals | Agency portals which enable discovery and download of marine geoscience metadata and data. | | |
| All References at MMI | All MMI metadata references | | |
| Amazon Web Services (AWS) | REST-based Web Services to search Amazon product data. | | |
| 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. | | |
| BioPortal 2.0 | | | |
| DFDL | The Data Format Description Language (DFDL) is a XML-based language for describing the structure of binary and character encoded (ASCII/Unicode) files and data streams so that their format, structure, and metadata can be exposed. | | |
| DLESE DDS | The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) Discovery System (DDS) offers an application programming interface (API) to the same resource content and search operations as are available from the DLESE Web site's graphical user interface (GUI). Three services are available: DDSWebService (REST-based), ODL search, and RSS feeds. | | |
| DOM | Document Object Model (DOM) is a platform- and language-neutral interface that will allow programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure, and style of documents. | | |
| Fedora | Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture (Fedora) is a general-purpose digital object repository system that can be used in whole or part to support a variety of use cases including: institutional repositories, digital libraries, content management, digital asset management, scholarly publishing, and digital preservation. | | |
| LDAP | Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is an open-standard protocol for searching and browsing X.500 directory services, using Internet transport protocols. | | |
| MTOM & XOP | SOAP-Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (MTOM) and XML-binary Optimized Packaging (XOP) are emerging standards for optimized XML-to-binary serialization. | | |
| OAI-PMH | Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) provides an application-independent interoperability framework based on metadata harvesting among Data Providers and Service Providers. | | |
| ODL | Open Digital Libraries (ODL) adopts the notions of simplicity and reusability from the Open Archives Initiative (OAI), and adds extensibility and componentization. | | |
| OPeNDAP | OPeN Data Access Protocol (OPeNDAP) is a framework that ""simplifies all aspects of scientific data networking"", using the DODS protocol for requesting and transporting data across the web. | | |
| Proof Markup Language (PML) | Specification of terms for encoding collections of justifications to answers in question answering scenarios | | |
| RDF | Resource Description Framework (RDF) provides a lightweight ontology system to support the exchange of knowledge on the Web. | | |
| RDQL | RDF Data Query Language (RDQL) extracts information from RDF graphs. | | |
| REST | Representational State Transfer (REST), a term coined by Roy Fielding in his Ph.D. dissertation, is characterized by a network of web pages (a virtual state-machine), where the user progresses through an application by selecting links (state transitions), resulting in the next page (representing the next state of the application) being transferred to the user and rendered for their use. | | |
| RSS | Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a family of XML-based communication standards, primarily used by news web sites and weblogs, to summarize content and its changes. | | |
| SIO Multibeam | REST-based Web Service to download SIO cruise info and multibeam data. | | |
| SOAP | Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) is a web-services oriented specification for communicating across the web. | | |
| SPARQL | RDF query language that can be used to express queries across diverse data sources | | |
| THREDDS | Thematic Realtime Environmental Distributed Data Services (THREDDS) provides middleware services to bridge the gap between data providers and data consumers; develops and enhances the underlying data access software tools, libraries and protocols; and influences how data providers and clients use them. | | |
| Web Ontology Language - OWL | OWL is the language recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium to express ontologies. | | |
