Initiatives References

1994 Executive Order (USA) for Geospatial Metadata

graybeal — Wed, 23 May 2007 07:10:00 -0700

Executive Order 12906

Coordinating geographic data acquisition and access: The National Spatial Data Infrastructure

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."

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.

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.

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

DIGARCH Interoperability Framework

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

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)

Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

luisBer — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:51:00 -0800

Project Introduction

Functional Genomics Experiment (FuGE)

agale — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:40:18 -0700

Description

Functional Genomics Experiment (FuGE) - the Functional Genomics Experiment [Object Model / Markup-Language] (FuGE-OM, FuGE-ML) has been created to facilitate the development of data standards for functional genomics experiments. FuGE is a model of the shared components in different functional genomics domains. FuGE facilitates the development of data standards in functional genomics in two ways:

GALEON

luisBer — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:25:00 -0800

GALEON (Gateway or Geo-interface for Air Land Earth Ocean NetCDF) is Unidata's OGC Interoperability Experiment.

The project will be both a formal OGC Interoperability Experiment related to the Web Coverage Service (WCS) interface specifications, and a set of software implementation experiments which, it is hoped, will go beyond the OGC membership into the world of OPeNDAP, LAS, THREDDS, NetCDF, etc.

Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC)

agale — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:37:46 -0700

Description

The Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) is an open-membership working body which formed in September 2005. The goal of this international community is to promote mechanisms that standardize the description of genomes and the exchange and integration of genomic data.

URLs:

http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/Main_Page

GEO

ngalbraith — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:33:56 -0700

The Group on Earth Observations is coordinating efforts to build a Global Earth Observation System of Systems, or GEOSS.

GEO was launched in response to calls for action by the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development and by the G8 (Group of Eight) leading industrialized countries. These high-level meetings recognized that international collaboration is essential for exploiting the growing potential of Earth observations to support decision making in an increasingly complex and environmentally stressed world.

Geoinformatics.info

kwalz — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:23:48 -0700

From Geoinformatics.info web site: "Our goal is to serve as a communication resource for members of the geoinformatics community. We solicit news, announcements of events, links, and other information to share with the geoinformatics community."

Geospatial One-Stop

dzimble — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:49:00 -0700

The Geospatial One-Stop Initiative is an intergovernmental project managed by the Department of the Interior in support of the President's Initiative for E-government. Geospatial One-Stop builds upon its partnership with the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) to improve the ability of the public and government to use geospatial information to support the business of government and facilitate decision-making.

GEOSS

ngalbraith — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:14:35 -0700

The Global Earth Observation System of Systems will provide decision-support tools to a wide variety of users. As with the Internet, GEOSS will be a global and flexible network of content providers allowing decision makers to access an extraordinary range of information at their desks.

GEOSS Standards and Interoperability Forum (SIF)

graybeal — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:26:00 -0800

GEOSS' Standards Interoperability Forum (SIF) is a committee of people who will support the interoperability requirements of GEOSS. per the GEOSS Standards Committee web site, it is intended "to facilitate the interchange of information, and make recommendations for standards and interoperability arrangements in GEOSS".