Ontologies - Tools - Web Services. Alone, each is powerful. Combine them into a system, and you have the beginnings of a Semantic Framework. MMI, in collaboration with our partners, has developed a Semantic Framework which can leverage these tools into a user-friendly system for data providers and users.  The Semantic Interoperability workshop is your opportunity to learn from our experience! 

The Marine Metadata Interoperability project, the QARTOD-to-OGC project, and the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System are excited to announce that registration is now open for the Ocean Observing Systems Semantic Interoperability workshop, to be held November 17-20, 2008 in Boulder, CO!

In recognition of the 10th anniversary of Google, Nature Magazine presents a look at big data. Many of the articles point to the inundation of data, and demonstrate the need for tools like the semantic web. Just as Google transformed the way we search web content, the semantic web will present innovative ways to store, find, and use scientific data. The semantic web, while virtually invisible, facilitates organization of data in a machine-readable fashion. This organization enables diverse datasets to be connected, using metadata.

In the world of increasing web connectivity, data providers have a variety of options for representing and exchanging point data records from fixed in-situ marine platforms. For some time, OOSTethys experimented with interoperable data services for this purpose, and its companion project the Ocean Sciences Interoperability Experiment (OceansIE) was created to investigate the use of OGC Web Feature Services (WFS) and OGC Sensor Observation Services (SOS).

The recently released Phase I Report presents best practices and lessons learned from this investigation.

It's great to have our new site on-line! We hope you find it really useful.

We have mostly finished working out significant bugs on the new site, and we thank you for your patience during the process.

There are still some links and content from the old site, and some internal links, that are not fully accessible (few compared to the total number of links; many more than we'd like). We expect to fix most of these soon.  Until then, here is a complete status of roll-out issues until most tasks are resolved.