| 1994 Executive Order (USA) for Geospatial Metadata | This order provided the foundation for FGDC's Content Standard for Describing Geospatial Metadata, among other things. | | |
| ABCD: Access to Biological Data Collections | A metadata standard for the exchange of biological collections and observations | | |
| About VINE | VINE is a vocabulary Integration Environment Tool, developed at MMI. | | |
| ACT Sensors List | List of sensors developed by the Alliance for Coastal Technologies | | |
| ad hoc Strategic Committee on Information and Data (SCID) | | | |
| Agency Portals | Agency portals which enable discovery and download of marine geoscience metadata and data. | | |
| AGU Index Terms | Thesaurus for indexing AGU journal articles and meeting abstracts, covering earth science concepts | | |
| Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) Gazetteer | Gazetteer services provided by Alexandria Digital Library from Map and Imagery Lab, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). | | |
| All Ontologies hosted at MMI | List of all the ontologies hosted at (and/or referenced by) MMI | | |
| All References at MMI | All MMI metadata references | | |
| Animal Behavior Ontology | Ontology describing animal behavior. | | |
| Apollo | Apollo is a user-friendly knowledge modelling application. | | |
| Aquatic Commons | A thematic digital repository covering the natural marine, estuarine /brackish and fresh water environments . | | |
| Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) | Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) is a paid service providing references to international literative covering marine environments. | | |
| ArcCatalog Metadata Tools | ArcCatalog metadata tool as part of ArcGIS. | | |
| Architecture of the World Wide Web (Vol 1) | The W3C recommendation describing the architecture of the web. | | |
| Archival Resource Keys | A naming scheme for persistent access to digital objects (including images, texts, data sets, and finding aids). | | |
| Arctic Observing Network Data Questionnaire | Summary results of the AON data questionnaire (link to details provided). | | |
| ArcView Metadata Collector | ArcView Metadata Collector (for ArcView 3.x), an easy-to-use application that helps the ArcView 3.x user create Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) compliant metadata. | | |
| Are Ontologies Overrated? | A fairly comprehensive, highly readable critique of ontologies as a classification method, as compared to more organic, user-driven, free-form organizing strategies. Some valuable guidelines for choosing between the two approaches. | | |
| Argo Instrument List | Instrument code list from Argo | | |
| Argo Parameters and quality control code lists | List of parameter and quality control codes from Argo | | |
| Auxiliary Description of Instruments | This is a project under development in GCMD to allow instrument metadata in GCMD data submissions that use the Directory Interchange Format. | | |
| Axis | Axis is an open-source implementation of SOAP; part of the Apache Web Services project. | | |
| Bathymetry Attributed Grid (BAG) | The BAG (Bathymetry Attributed Grid) is a non-proprietary file format for storing and exchanging bathymetric data developed by the Open Navigation Surface Working Group. | | |
| BIDM | Basic Interoperability Data Model (BIDM) is a IEEE standard (1420.1) for interoperable software cataloging on the Internet; it defines the minimal set of information about assets that reuse libraries should be able to exchange to support interoperability. | | |
| Biodiversity Resource Information Ontology | An ontology describing resources important in biodiversity information management. | | |
| BioGeomancer | Provides a list of html links for placename metadata used to map biodiversity data. | | |
| Biological Data Profile for the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata | This is an official profile of the FGDC's Content Standard for Geospatial Metadata for biological data. It is used by the US National Biological Information Infrastructure. | | |
| BioPortal 2.0 | | | |
| BODC (British Oceanographic Data Centre) Units | The BODC units table, consisting of all the units codes used in BODC parameter lists. | | |
| BODC Instruments List | List of instruments used by the British Oceanographic Data Centre | | |
| BODC Parameter Ontology Project | The British Oceanographic Data Centre is creating an ontology to link the BODC Parameter Discovery Vocabulary, the CF Standard Names and the GCMD Science Keywords | | |
| BOG CTD Bottle Data Field Names | MBARI's Biological Ocean Group (BOG) CTD Bottle Data Field Names | | |
| BOG CTD Profiling Data Field Names | MBARI's Biological Ocean Group (BOG) CTD Profiling Data Field Names | | |
| British Oceanographic Data Centre Parameter Discovery Vocabulary | The BODC Parameter Dictionary has been completely overhauled during 2004 and now consists of an integrated data markup and parameter discovery vocabularies. | | |
| British Oceanographic Data Centre Parameter Usage Vocabulary | 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 or to describe parameters (phenomena in GML terminology) in 'use' metadata. | | |
| BUFR Parameters | World Meteorological Organization's Binary Universal Form for the Representation of meteorological data (BUFR) parameter codes. | | |
| Call for Paper The International Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR) | Special Issue on ""Bridging Communities: Semantically Augmented Metadata for Services, Grids, and Software Engineering"" | | |
| Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) Museum Metadata Standards | CHIN's summary of museum metadata standards and crosswalks | | |
| Canonical Object Browser (COBE) | Java application developed by Scripps Institution of Oceanography for creating metadata definitions and doing metadata crosswalking | | |
| CatMDEdit | Open-source solution to editing XML metadata files in FGDC and/or ISO 19115 format | | |
| CCDS: Canonical Cruise Data Structure | CCDS aids dealing with the volume and variability of data and documents from expeditions by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) becoming web-accessible for both education and research through the new SIOExplorer project. | | |
| CDI Sea Search Sensor and Platform Vocabularies | Common Data Index vocabularies lists for the Sea-Search program. Vocabularies for platforms and sensors are included. | | |
| CF - Climate and Forecast Standard Names | Vocabulary for climate and forecast parameters | | |
| Chew 'N Spit Pre-Parser for Metadata | This parser converts metadata records that cannot be parsed by MP (a USGS metadata compiler) into records that can be parsed by MP. | | |
| CIMA Ontology | CIMA, the Common Instrument Middleware Architecture, is developing ontologies for an instrument services architecture. | | |
| CIRCO Taxonomy Administrator | Maps designed taxonomies to a built-in general lexical ontology using weighted concept clusters (""gist""). No definable relations. | | |
| Class Ncx Crawler | This is a standalone Java application that extracts metadata information from NetCDF files. | | |
| Climate Science Modelling Language | The Climate Science Modelling Language (CSML) is a standards-based data model and GML application schema for atmospheric and oceanographic data. | | |
| Cmap Tools | The Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) CmapTools program ""empowers users to construct, navigate, share and criticize knowledge models represented as concept maps."" | | |
| CMECS Habitat Classification System | Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard system describing the habitats of the estuaries, coasts and oceans of North America. | | |
| Coastal GeoTools 2005 | A conference to "promote sharing of standards and coastal data through the National Spatial Data Infrastructure", with relevant topics. (2005.03.07-10, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.) | | |
| COBrA | COBrA is an ontology browser and editor for GO and OBO ontologies. It has been specifically designed to be usable by biologists to create links between ontologies. | | |
| CODAR metadata compliant with FGDC as *.mif | CODAR metadata compliant with FGDC as *.mif | | |
| CODATA - Committee for Data on Science and Technology | International organization promoting improved scientific and technical data management and use | | |
| CoGITaNT | Conceptual graph (CG) modeling with rules; nested typed graphs; projections. | | |
| COMPASS | Investigating development of semantic tools for research on coastal and marine environments. | | |
| Content Standards Field Comparison Matrix file (excel) | Excel file containing the Content Standards fields comparison matrix. | | |
| Content Standards Field Comparison Matrix: HTML | HTML version of the content standards field comparison matrix. | | |
| Content Standards Field Comparison Matrix: Introduction | Introduction to a matrix containing a list of fields in each of over 10 key content standards. | | |
| Content Standards Field Comparison Matrix: PDF | The content standards field comparison matrix in PDF single-column form. | | |
| Cool URIs Don't Change | Aptly named treatise describing why it should not be necessary for any URI to change. | | |
| Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service | Supports the Arctic Observing Network, an NSF International Polar Year project. | | |
| CoRIS Glossary of Terms | NOAA's Coral Reef Information System (CoRIS) glossary of coral reef-related terms | | |
| CoRIS Metadata Crosswalk | The relationship between the NOAA FGDC, MARC21, and Dublin Core metadata standards | | |
| CTD Data from Joint USGS Cruise 03008 and NOAA RB0303 | Metadata example of CTD Data from a NOAA and USGS Cruise in the Caribbean Sea | | |
| DAG-Edit | DAG-Edit has been written to make it easy for programmers to add powerful extensions to DAG-Edit without having to modify the existing DAG-Edit code. | | |
| DAML | To create ontologies and to markup information so that it is machine readable and understandable | | |
| DAML UML Enhanced Tool (DUET) | DUET provides a UML visualization and authoring environment for DAML. | | |
| Darwin Core | The Darwin Core is a content specification designed for data about the geographical occurences of species (i.e. the observation or collection of a particular species or other taxonomic group at a particular location). | | |
| Data Dictionary from SEACOOS | The SEACOOS. standard names cover many categories/disciplines, with extensive detail about each name. | | |
| Data Interoperability -- Challenges and Technologies | A symposium on the emergence of globally distributed data. (2005.06.20-24, Sardinia, Italy.) | | |
| DBFMeta | This is a tool to help develop metadata for .dbf files | | |
| Deegree | Deegree is a Java Framework offering the main building blocks for Spatial Data Infrastructures | | |
| DFDL | The Data Format Description Language (DFDL) is a XML-based language for describing the structure of binary and character encoded (ASCII/Unicode) files and data streams so that their format, structure, and metadata can be exposed. | | |
| DFO Common Data Dictionary | A mapping tool provided by the Canadian Marine Environmental Data Service (MEDS) to facilitate mappings between parameter markup dictionaries in the oceanographic domain. | | |
| DIG35 Metadata for Digital images | A metadata standard for images. | | |
| DIGARCH Interoperability Framework | The DIGARCH interoperability framework is the basis for a federated, multi-institutional data network for scalable digital archiving. It supports a high degree of platform independence and data and metadata interoperability each of which is an essential component of long-term data interoperability. | | |
| Directory Interchange Format | A relatively minimal metadata standard applicable to earth and atmospheric science resources. It is the standard used by the Global Change Master Directory, among others. | | |
| Discovery Machine Modeler | Construct strategies in a graphical language | | |
| DL-workbench | Allows management of ontological entities, containers of entities, reasoner connection. | | |
| DLESE DDS | The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) Discovery System (DDS) offers an application programming interface (API) to the same resource content and search operations as are available from the DLESE Web site's graphical user interface (GUI). Three services are available: DDSWebService (REST-based), ODL search, and RSS feeds. | | |
| DMAC Implementation Plan | Implementation Plan for the IOOS Data Management and Communications initiative. | | |
| DOGMAModeler | The DOGMA Project at V.U.B. STAR Lab: linking ontologies, database semantics, information systems, corporate knowledge management, agent technology, internet databases, the semantic web. | | |
| DOLCE ROCKS: Integrating Foundational and Geoscience Ontologies | Integrating DOLCE foundational ontology with concepts from two geoscience knowledge representations, GeoSciML and SWEET. | | |
| DOM | Document Object Model (DOM) is a platform- and language-neutral interface that will allow programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure, and style of documents. | | |
| Dublin Core Metadata Initiative DCMI | The Dublin Core metadata standard is an element set for describing a wide range of networked resources, focusing on bibliographic needs. | | |
| Earth Science Education Metadata Content Standards | Earth Science Education Metadata Content Standards | | |
| Earth Science Markup Language | An XML based language to describe format of files | | |
| Earth System Curator | A system for assembling, running, and archiving information about climate models | | |
| Earth System Grid Ontology | Primarily developed for adding metadata to datasets found in the Eearth System Grid (ESG) portal. | | |
| ebXML (Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language) | ebXML and related technologies | | |
| Ecological Concepts Ontology | Ontology describing concepts in ecology. | | |
| Ecological Metadata Language | XML application using modules to hold ecological metadata. | | |
| Ecological Metadata Language (EML) | Ecological Metadata Language (EML) is a metadata specification developed by the ecology discipline and for the ecology discipline. | | |
| EcoMundus | An initiative to provide access to environmental data and information | | |
| Electronic Geophysical Year | This organization promotes interoperability throughout the geosciences. | | |
| Environment Ontology | Ontology on environmental features and habitats. | | |
| EPIC (NOAA, PMEL) Units | Example of units used in operational system (units are encoded in variable key, used in netCDF entries). | | |
