Vocabularies & Standards References

ABCD: Access to Biological Data Collections

kstocks — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:33:00 -0700

ABCD is a metadata standard for the exchange of information about biological collections (i.e. museum specimens) and observations (i.e. primary biodiversity data). It is maintained and endorsed by Biological Information Standards, formerly known as the Taxonomic Databases Working Group, and is used by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

ACT Sensors List

graybeal — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:55:00 -0700

ACT has a searchable database of sensors used in coastal and ocean research and observing. The database is a living database; it is continually updated as new test results are available and as more information is provided on each sensor/instrument.

Agency Portals

arko — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:41:00 -0800

AGU Index Terms

rkl — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:21:00 -0800

Thesaurus for indexing AGU journal articles and meeting abstracts, covering Earth and Space sciences, including in-depth coverage of physical, chemical, and biological oceanography, marine geology and geophysics, hydrology, atmospheric sciences, biogeosciences, and global change.

The index terms cover a wide range of earth science domains as can be seen from the list of Top-Level Categories:

Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) Gazetteer

luisBer — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:36:00 -0800

Description:

Protocol:
- REST (XML and HTTP POST) defined by ADL
Query Capabilities:
- placename
- geographic area
- feature class
- inter-placename relationship
- etc.
Features supported: 5.9 Million

All Ontologies hosted at MMI

luisBer — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:11:00 -0800

All ontologies and thesaurii at MMI

All References at MMI

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:02:38 -0800

Searchable list of references for tools, initiatives, and conventions (vocabularies and standards).

All references list at MMI

Animal Behavior Ontology

kwalz — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:55:00 -0800

(link to ontology at bottom of their page)

This web site contains information concerning development of an ontology for animal behaviors. The ontology contains detailed descriptions of animal behaviors, most are applicable to terrestrial animals but many of these behaviors can be carried over to the marine environment (mating, predation, care of young, etc).

Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA)

luisBer — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:44:00 -0800

ASFA is an abstracting and indexing service covering the world's literature on the science, technology, management, and conservation of marine, brackish water, and freshwater resources and environments, including their socio-economic and legal aspects.

As part of their service, ASFA has developed an extensive thesaurus of keywords. The ASFA thesaurus covers a wide area of the biological oceanographic domain. The glossary is more restricted in scope.

Arctic Observing Network Data Questionnaire

graybeal — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:46:00 -0700

Covers data formats and metadata needs for AON project. Over 20 respondents, 300 sites, 200 parameters,

20 unique sites, 15 real-time teams.

Argo Instrument List

kwalz — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:54:00 -0800

(see Table 8, Page 50)

Argo instrument list contains 3-character number codes from 831-858 (14 instruments). From document: "The objective of Argo program is to operate and manage a set of 3000 floats distributed in all oceans, with the vision that the network will be a permanent and operational system."

Existing: The item is available for public use, has been released or widely adopted, and is sponsored or maintained.

Argo Parameters and quality control code lists

kwalz — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:25:00 -0800

(see Tables 2 and 3, page 46)

Quality control codes are numbers 0-9 with meaning, real-time comments, and delayed comments. Parameter codes are 4-letters for temperature, dissolved oxygen, conductivity, pressure, salinity.

Auxiliary Description of Instruments

graybeal — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:36:00 -0800

In order to support defining metadata for instruments, GCMD is working on a content standard called AD-I, for Auxiliary Description of Instruments. This standard would serve to extend the DIF metadata currently accepted.

AD-I was introduced in draft form for Track 1 DIF work of the MMI Sensors Metadata Interoperability workshop.

Axis

arko — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:41:00 -0800

AXIS allows to create very fast a web service based on SOAP. It provides tools to create from your code WSDLs (Schemas used in web services). Additionally it helps you to deploy the service in a server like Tomcat. In about 1- 3 hours you can a simple service running.

Major problems are with the classpath and having it available outside the firewall (if you are behind one). Make sure that is is properly configured.

BIDM

arko — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:41:00 -0800

Biodiversity Resource Information Ontology

kwalz — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:55:00 -0800

Biodiversity resource information ontology - introduced species, taxonomic information, geographic location.

Biological Data Profile for the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata

swatson — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:49:00 -0800

BioPortal 2.0

carynn — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:58:20 -0700

BioPortal allows users to browse, upload, download, search, comment on, and create mappings for ontologies.

Users can browse and explore individual ontologies by navigating either a tree structure or an animated graphical view. Users can also view mappings and ontology metadata, and download ontologies.

Additionally, users who are signed in may also submit a new ontology to the library. All submissions to the library are reviewed.

BODC (British Oceanographic Data Centre) Units

graybeal — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 23:40:00 -0700

The British Oceanographic Data Centre has been developing parameter and unit lists for an extended period, for many data holdings. They are actively managing their parameter dictionaries as they participate in or lead numerous oceanographic data management projects.

Live access to the BODC units table and many other controlled parameter lists is now available via the BODC Vocabulary Server Web Service.

BODC Instruments List

graybeal — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:53:00 -0800

The British Oceanographic Data Centre list of instrument terms.

BODC Parameter Ontology Project

mhug — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:31:00 -0800

The BODC Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (PDV) is a controlled list of over 300 terms for identifying categories of oceanographic metadata. This is currently mapped to the 18,000+ term BODC Parameter Usage Vocabulary, an internationally renowned dictionary for describing data values.

BOG CTD Bottle Data Field Names

kwalz — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:55:00 -0800

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute's Biological Ocean Group CTD bottle data (up cast), productivity, physical, and chemical data field names.

BOG CTD Profiling Data Field Names

kwalz — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:55:00 -0800

List of field names used for the profiling CTD data set type at MBARI.

Describes Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute's Biological Ocean Group samples from the Profiling CTD (down cast), productivity and physical parameters (sensor data). One record for each meter in depth.

British Oceanographic Data Centre Parameter Discovery Vocabulary

mhug — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:27:00 -0800

The BODC Parameter Discovery Vocabulary may be used to either label parameters in data set discovery metadata records (e.g. ISO19115) or provide a term layer in a hierarchical discovery interface for data marked up with the BODC Data Markup Vocabulary.

British Oceanographic Data Centre Parameter Usage Vocabulary

rkl — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:04:00 -0800

The BODC Parameter Dictionary has been completely overhauled during 2004 and now consists of integrated parameter usage and parameter discovery vocabularies. The BODC Parameter Usage Vocabulary may be used as a tool to label a measurement with information on what it is and how it was obtained. The scope and level of detail for this information differs significantly from term to term.