| 1994 Executive Order (USA) for Geospatial Metadata | This order provided the foundation for FGDC's Content Standard for Describing Geospatial Metadata, among other things. | | |
| Aquatic Commons | A thematic digital repository covering the natural marine, estuarine /brackish and fresh water environments . | | |
| Coastal GeoTools 2005 | A conference to "promote sharing of standards and coastal data through the National Spatial Data Infrastructure", with relevant topics. (2005.03.07-10, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.) | | |
| CODATA - Committee for Data on Science and Technology | International organization promoting improved scientific and technical data management and use | | |
| COMPASS | Investigating development of semantic tools for research on coastal and marine environments. | | |
| Content Standards Field Comparison Matrix file (excel) | Excel file containing the Content Standards fields comparison matrix. | | |
| Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service | Supports the Arctic Observing Network, an NSF International Polar Year project. | | |
| Data Interoperability -- Challenges and Technologies | A symposium on the emergence of globally distributed data. (2005.06.20-24, Sardinia, Italy.) | | |
| DIGARCH Interoperability Framework | The DIGARCH interoperability framework is the basis for a federated, multi-institutional data network for scalable digital archiving. It supports a high degree of platform independence and data and metadata interoperability each of which is an essential component of long-term data interoperability. | | |
| DLESE Data Services 2005 | Data Services for education. (2005.04.18-20, Breckinridge, Colorado.) | | |
| DMAC Implementation Plan | Implementation Plan for the IOOS Data Management and Communications initiative. | | |
| EcoMundus | An initiative to provide access to environmental data and information | | |
| Electronic Geophysical Year | This organization promotes interoperability throughout the geosciences. | | |
| EuroGOOS 2005 | Scientific conference focusing on the European Operational Oceanography: Present and Future. (2005.06.06-09, Brest, France.) | | |
| Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) | A consortium that collects, interprets and develops applications for satellite-generated Earth observations. | | |
| Functional Genomics Experiment (FuGE) | FuGE has been created to facilitate the development of data standards for functional genomics experiments. | | |
| GALEON | Unidata's Informal Interoperability Experiment: Geo-interface for Atmosphere, Land, Earth, and Ocean netCDF | | |
| Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) | The GSC is an international community working to promote the standardization of genomic data. | | |
| GEO | Group on Earth Observations | | |
| GEON 3rd Annual Meeting | A National Meeting on Research Frontiers in Cyberinfraestructure for the Geosciences (2005.05.05 - 2005.05.06, San Diego, CA.) | | |
| Geospatial One-Stop | An intergovernmental project to improve the use of geospatial information | | |
| GEOSS | Global Earth Observation System of Systems | | |
| GEOSS Standards and Interoperability Forum (SIF) | The Global Earth Observations System of Systems Standards and Interoperability Forum | | |
| GO-ESSP | Global Organization for Earth System Science Portal is a collaborative, international effort to develop new software infrastructure for climate and weather communities | | |
| Hydroseek | An ontology-aided search engine for scientific data on water quality and hydrology from approximately 1.9 million sites in the USA. | | |
