Wikis, Pages, Forums, Listservs, etc
Dynamic list of web and email resources in marine metadata
This list, developed by the MMI Tech Team, is a dynamic list of electronic means of collaboration (wikis, webpages, forums, listservs, etc). Tech Team Members are encouraged to add content below.
If you manage a wiki, webpage, forum, or listserv that you think MMI members should be aware of, let us know!
Wikis
| Title | Description | MMI Participation |
|---|---|---|
| LIS Wiki | Library Information Science Wiki | |
| SEEK | Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge | |
| ESIP | Earth Science Information Partners | |
| OpenWetWare | Bio and BioEngineering (might not be the most appropriate) | |
| EvoWiki | Geology Section of the Evolution Education Wiki | |
| wikipedia Metadata Controlled Vocabularies Web Services | Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit | See External Links on the Metadata entry |
Wiki Related Links
Mailing Lists
| Title | Description | MMI Maintained | Other | MMI Monitored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMI News | Relatively low-frequency announcements (monthly newsletter plus occasional updates) about MMI and general metadata topics | X | ||
| MMI Metadata Information Forum | A forum to ask general (or specific) questions about metadata. Experts from the metadata community will offer answers and opinions, or will suggest other sources of information | X | ||
| MMI Site Help | Technical details about the MMI site: Issues and answers about plone, zope, mailman, apache, and their configuration on our system. (Mostly for site contributors, but anyone can see or sign up for the list.) | X | ||
| Internal MMI Support Lists | MMI maintains numerous internal lists accessible to members. Send mail to the site lead for more information on contributing. | X | ||
| MOTIIVE Project | Email list for MOTIIVE, a project addressing marine metadata profiling, marine data modeling, and Feature Type catalogues. | X | ||
| ICES/IOC XML Study Group | Email list considering XML issues. | X | ||
| Marine XML Email List | List for EU MarineXML project. Not clear if active | X | ||
| SDSC Earth DB Forum List | A listserver at San Diego Supercomputer Center to ask questions and get answers on database issues for the earth sciences | X | ||
| CF Metadata | An active list for discussions about interpretation, clarification, and proposals for extensions or change to the CF conventions. This is also an appropriate place to request new standard names. | X | ||
| DODS-OPeNDAP | An active list for discussions about interpretation, clarification, and proposals for extensions or change to the CF conventions. This is also an appropriate place to request new standard names. | X | ||
| Sensor ML Forum | Sensor Metadata Language discussion list. (SensorML is a pending OGC Technical Specification referenced elsewhere on this site.) | X | ||
| IRIS Web Services Forum | A list for the earth sciences community to discuss issues related to the implementation and use of web services. Sponsored by IRIS | X | ||
| Geo Metadata Mailing List | A mailing list addressing geospatial metadata issues. (Not the mailing list for this site.) | X | ||
| Monterey Bay Data Management and Visualization | List formed at the Monterey Bay Area Data Management and Visualization Workshop in 2002 (?). (Rarely used.) | X | ||
| Protege Lists | Protege is an ontology editor. It has various lists: announcement, beta, general and owl. The last one is related to the OWL plugin, where you can find also discussions about ontology development. | X | ||
| Jena List | JENA is a semantic web tool kit, an application program interface (API) for JAVA. Technical discussions on ontology development take place in this list. | X | ||
| RDF Logic Forum | RDF stands for Resource Description Framework, which is the underlying model of the Ontology Web Language (OWL). Technical discussions about RDF take place in this forum | X | ||
| Semantic Web Yahoo group | In this list general questions about the semantic web takes place | X |
Posted June 6th, 2007 by carynn
