Initiatives References

6th Annual National Conference on Digital Government Research

deepseadawn — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:11:00 -0700

The National Science Foundation and the Digital Government Research Center (DGRC) is sponsoring dg.o2005, the 6th annual National Conference on Digital Government Research, May 16 - 18, 2005, in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference also serves as the annual meeting of all NSF digital government researchers.

ad hoc Strategic Committee on Information and Data (SCID)

carynn — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:30:34 -0700

Background, from SCID Homepage

Aquatic Commons

graybeal — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:39:00 -0800

The Aquatic Commons is a thematic digital repository covering the natural marine, estuarine /brackish and fresh water environments . It includes all aspects of the science, technology, management and conservation of these environments, their organisms and resources, and the economic, sociological and legal aspects.

BioGeomancer

kwalz — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:25:02 -0700

From website:

"The BioGeomancer Project is a worldwide collaboration of natural history and geospatial data experts. The primary goal of the project is to maximize the quality and quantity of biodiversity data that can be mapped in support of scientific research, planning, conservation, and management. The project promotes discussion, manages geospatial data and data standards, and develops software tools in support of this mission."

CalCOFI Program

kwalz — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:48:00 -0800

For over 50 years, the CalCOFI study has annually visited 75 stations in Southern California waters.

CeNCOOS

kwalz — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:48:52 -0700

From CeNCOOS website:

The CeNCOOS is part of an evolving national framework of integrated coastal observing systems covering all US coastal areas. This national framework is called the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS).

OceanObs, inventory of ocean and freshwater observing programs:

http://www.cencoos.org/OceanObs/

CEOS IDN Master Directory

kstocks — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:38:23 -0700

As stated on their website, The CEOS IDN Master Directory is an international effort developed to assist researchers in locating information on available data sets. The CEOS IDN Master Directory provides free, online access to information on worldwide scientific data in the Earth sciences: geoscience, hydrospheric, biospheric, satellite remote sensing, and atmospheric sciences. The CEOS IDN Master Directory describes data held by university departments, government agencies, and other organizations. IDN also maintains the DIF metadata standard.

Coastal GeoTools 2005

deepseadawn — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:28:00 -0700

Coastal GeoTools 2005 is a conference to "promote sharing of standards and coastal data through the National Spatial Data Infrastructure". Topics include metadata, ocean observing systems, and data sharing.

Relevance

Relevance Estimate: Very High

CODATA - Committee for Data on Science and Technology

graybeal — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:39:00 -0800

CODATA is an international organization established by the International Council on Science (ICSU) in 1966. It seeks to advance the use, and the promise, of information technology in scientific communities all over the world, including in nations that have seen limited scientific benefit from information technology so far. It also represents the international scientific community in international forums and summits.

COMPASS

graybeal — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:26:00 -0800

The COMPASS (Coastal Marine Perception Application for Scientific Scholarship) project is investigating the development of semantic tools for assisting those conducting research on coastal and marine environments. They have targeted demonstrating an ontologically-driven knowledge infrastructure for the marine domain.

Concept Web Alliance

kstocks — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:25:59 -0700

The mission of the Concept Web Alliance is to enable an open collaborative environment to jointly address the challenges associated with high volume scholarly and professional data production, storage, interoperability and analyses for knowledge discovery.

Content Standards Field Comparison Matrix file (excel)

graybeal — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:50:00 -0700

Click here to get the file

Size 152.5 kB - File type application/vnd.ms-excel

Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service

graybeal — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:47:00 -0700

CADIS - The Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service - supports the Arctic Observing Network (AON). It will be a portal for data discovery, and provide near-real-time data delivery, a repository for data storage, and tools to manipulate data.

CUAHSI

kwalz — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:36:26 -0700

From CUAHSI website:

CUAHSI, an organization representing more than one-hundred United States universities, receives support from the National Science Foundation to develop infrastructure and services for the advancement of hydrologic science and education in the U.S.

Data Interoperability -- Challenges and Technologies

graybeal — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:03:00 -0700

Challenges and Technologies

"From Local to Global." This is a symposium geared toward discussing interoperability issues related to global information storage and exchange in the global science community.

Relevance

Relevance Estimate: Very High

Department of Defense Discovery Metadata Specification Home Page

carueda — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:55:07 -0700

(from the website)

DICE Center

kwalz — Wed, 12 May 2010 09:56:13 -0700

From DICE Center website:

The DICE Center is a new campus-wide UNC Center, created in April 2009, which builds on a 13-year research and development effort out of the DICE Group. The DICE Center is a community of scholars and science and technology experts at UNC coming together to:

DICF: The Data Intensive Cyberinfrastructure Foundation

kwalz — Wed, 12 May 2010 10:13:52 -0700

From CIFS website:

The Data Intensive Cyberinfrastructure Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the development and long-term viability of open source technologies which society increasingly depends on to manage, share, publish, and preserve the digital data that sustains our scientific, government, business, scholarly, and cultural life. The Foundation serves as the home of the growing open source community for iRODS, the Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System.

DIGARCH Interoperability Framework

hellyj — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:38:00 -0800

Digital Curation Exchange

graybeal — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:10:05 -0800

The Digital Curation Exchange is a community collaboration site much like MMI, focusing on digital curation.

From the web site:

DMAC Implementation Plan

graybeal — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:31:00 -0700

The DMAC Implementation Plan contains an integrated architecture for data management and communications in a national (U.S.), sustained ocean observing system. It is detailed, comprehensive, and mature, having been through many review cycles by many reviewers.

There is a lot of discussion of metadata in the DMAC Implementation Plan.

Earth System Curator

ngalbraith — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:32:59 -0700

The Earth System Curator team is prototyping a software environment for assembling, running, and archiving information about climate models. The idea is to make it easier for scientists to perform modeling experiments, and to

EcoMundus

ngalbraith — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:41:00 -0800

Project Introduction

EcoMundus intends to bring about an infrastructure enabling access to international data and information resources.

Electronic Geophysical Year

graybeal — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:38:00 -0800

The Electronic Geophysical Year is a voluntary organization and collaboration intended to achieve a major step forward in geoscience capability, knowledge, and usage throughout the world for the benefit of humanity by accelerating the adoption of modern and visionary practices for managing and sharing data and information.

eGY will have many activities in 2007-2008 to promote these activities.

EuroGOOS 2005

graybeal — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:11:00 -0700

"The Conference will focus on operational oceanography which can be defined as the activity of systematic and long-term routine measurements of the oceans including coastal zones and atmosphere, and their rapid interpretation and dissemination.

"The goal of the Conference is to review the progress of operational oceanography during the past three years on both European and global scale, identifying gaps in the current observing and forecasting capacity and plan the next steps towards efficient marine environment predictions." (from web site)