Additional Resources
Guides, tutorials and informative resources useful for the marine data community.
If you know of a resource not included on this list, please let us know, or submit the reference online!
| Reference | Description | Guide 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 |
Posted March 5th, 2009 by carynn
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