Ocean Observing Systems Semantic Interoperability!
This is the second of two meetings, the first of which provided planning and training to set the stage for this meeting. More information on the workshop series is available at the links below.
We will hold this second meeting in November, 2008, in Boulder, CO. It will be limited to 60 people.
Background
Currently, there are many vocabularies in use by different data systems in the IOOS community. This cacophony of vocabularies inhibits interoperability between data systems, as well as the ability of IOOS to operate as a whole, integrated system.To address this need, and in fulfillment of the mission of the Marine Metadata Interoperability Project ("promoting the exchange, integration and use of marine data through enhanced data publishing, discovery, documentation and accessibility"), MMI is co-hosting with GCOOS and Q2O two workshops aimed at improving the availability and interoperability of controlled vocabularies. The resulting mappings will be demonstrated in use in multiple applications that address key use cases.
The workshops will include domains represented by the 20 IOOS Core Variables. It will reflect the goals of previously described use cases, and be planned and implemented with input from key community representatives, including the IOOS DMAC Metadata Expert Team, Q2O (the QARTOD-to-OGC-project), the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System (GCOOS) and the OOI Cyberinfrastructure Implementing Organization. Software tools to be used will include Voc2OWL/Voc2RDF, Vocabulary Integration Environment (VINE), Protégé, and the MMI Ontology Registry and Repository.
