Mailing Lists
Posted September 25th, 2006 by graybeal
References to metadata-related email lists.
Marine Metadata Interoperability Mailing Lists
The following lists are maintained by the MMI Project.
- MMI News Mailing List
- Relatively low-frequency announcements (monthly newsletter plus occasional updates) about MMI and general metadata topics.
- 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.
- 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.)
- Internal MMI Support Lists
- MMI maintains numerous internal lists accessible to members. Send mail to the site lead for more information on contributing.
Other Mailing Lists
MOTIIVE Project- Email list for MOTIIVE, a project addressing marine metadata profiling, marine data modeling, and Feature Type catalogues.
- ICES/IOC XML Study Group
- Email list considering XML issues.
- Marine XML Email List
- List for EU MarineXML project. Not clear if active.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Sensor ML Forum
- Sensor Metadata Language discussion list. (SensorML is a pending OGC Technical Specification referenced elsewhere on this site.)
- 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.
- Geo Metadata Mailing List
- A mailing list addressing geospatial metadata issues. (Not the mailing list for this site.)
- Monterey Bay Data Management and Visualization
- List formed at the Monterey Bay Area Data Management and Visualization Workshop in 2002 (?). (Rarely used.)
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Ontology and Semantic Web
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Semantic Web Yahoo group
- In this list general questions about the semantic web takes place
