Welcome to the Marine Metadata Interoperability Project

"Promoting the exchange, integration and use of marine data through enhanced data publishing, discovery, documentation and accessibility."

Our goal is to support collaborative research in the marine science domain, by simplifying the incredibly complex world of metadata into specific, straightforward guidance. MMI encourages scientists and data managers at all levels to apply good metadata practices from the start of a project, by providing the best guidance and resources for data management, and developing advanced metadata tools and services needed by the community.

Posted December 7th, 2008 by graybeal

MMI Project Status

What's happening with the MMI project?

The MMI project was first funded by the National Science Foundation in 2004. Today it continues to provide guidance, vocabularies and semantic services, with regular updates on events and news of interest to the community. Our continued popularity is confirmed both by page visits, and steady streams of positive comments, many to the tune of "MMI is essential, we need to keep it going."

As some of you know, MMI has completed its latest NSF funding cycle, and is exploring funding opportunities. The sites (this one, and the ORR Semantic Repository are on-line with hosting support from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. The sites are technically minded by MMI team members from MBARI, UC San Diego's OOI Cyberinfrastructure project, and other volunteers. We continue to maintain professional guidance for vocabulary creation and maintenance, and many community vocabularies in our semantic repository, among many other assets.

Community members continue to update the web site through event entries, blog posts, twitter feeds, and news and content contributions. Community contributions are always welcome—MMI is a great place to capture your knowledge of marine metadata so that everyone can use it! Please contact us if you want any information about how to participate, individually or as a group.

Posted May 20th, 2011 by graybeal

MMI Paper on Semantic Mediation Published

Architectural Overview The MMI Project is pleased to report an MMI-based paper, Semantic mediation of vocabularies for ocean observing systems, has been accepted for publication in the journal Computers & Geosciences. Co-authored by John Graybeal, Anthony Isenor, and Carlos Rueda, the paper describes how semantic mediation of vocabularies is needed for any diverse ocean observing system, and the semantic framework and technologies introduced by MMI. It includes an explanation of the MMI Ontology Registry and Repository, describing many of its features, present uses, and possible future uses.

This paper serves as a simple basic introduction to semantic tools and mediation, an overview of MMI's semantic framework and tools, and a great citation for the MMI ORR work that has been funded by NSF and supported by MMI's staff and many volunteers.

Posted November 20th, 2011 by graybeal

AGU Fall Meeting 2011

12/05/2011 - 00:00
12/09/2011 - 23:59

The 2011 AGU Fall Meeting is expected to draw a crowd of over 20,000 geophysicists from around the world. The Fall Meeting provides an opportunity for researchers, teachers, students, and consultants to present and review the latest issues affecting the Earth, the planets, and their environments in space. This meeting will cover topics in all areas of Earth and space sciences.

Event Location: 
USA: San Francisco, California
Event Website(s): 
2011 AGU Fall Meeting
Posted November 16th, 2011 by carueda

Revised NSF Ocean Sciences Data and Sample Policy Released

The Division of Ocean Sciences released a new Data and Sample Policy on May 24, 2011. This document describes the requirements for contributing data and samples to national data centers. In general, it requires that primary data collected under NSF/OCE funded projects be submitted to the appropriate data center within 2 years of collection.

Posted May 26th, 2011 by kstocks
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