Additional Resources

Guides, tutorials and informative resources useful for the marine data community.

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ReferenceDescriptionGuide Reference Topics
Advancing ecological research with Ontologies (a review paper) A review paper on the use of ontologies in ecological research
GEON Summer Institute Metadata-related materials from the Cyberinfrastructure Summer Institute, put on by GEON each year. 2005 includes presentations on Semantic Web and Knowledge Representation, Ontologies in GEON, and many other (non-metadata) data systems related topics, like web services.
Getty Library Introduction to Metadata An online publication devoted to metadata, its types and uses, and how it can improve access to digital resources.
GSDI Data Management Cookbook Data Management Cookbook for geospatial data. Old but well constructed example.
ICES/IOC SGXML Final Report The final report (including recommendations relevant to metadata practice in the marine domain)of the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas / Intergovernnmental Oceanographic (ICES/IOC) Study Group on the Development of Marine Data Exchange Systems using XML (SGXML).
NISO Primer: Understanding Metadata A primer introduction to metadata from NISO (July 24, 2004)
NOAA's CSC Metadata Workshop Materials This online guide, available from NOAA's Coastal Services Center, includes information on metadata standards, getting started, metadata tools, metadata training, and metadata links.
NSDL Metadata Primer Metadata primer guide written for the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) by Diane Hillmann's.
NSGIC Metadata Primer A "How To" Guide on Metadata Implementation for digital spatial data
OCGC's Metadata Demystified What are metadata and why are they important?
Scholarly Citation of Data A recent paper proposing a standard for the scholarly citation of quantitative data.
Stanford Ontology Creation Guide A guide about ontology development published by the creators of Protege at Stanford University.
UNESCO IOC Ocean Teacher Provides basic technical training on establishing oceanographic data systems.
Virtual Data Center Citation A (somewhat) specific implementation of the Altman-King recommendation for data citations.
W3C Best Practices for Semantic Web (2006) A list of best practices developed for the semantic web
W3C: URIs, URLs, and URNs W3C description of the relationship between URIs, URLs, and URNs