Selected References, based on Project
For a complete set of references, see Search MMI References.
Title | Description | Reference Type | Reference Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| BioGeomancer | 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." | ||
| DICE Center | 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 | 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. | ||
| Digital Curation Exchange |
The Digital Curation Exchange is a community collaboration site much like MMI, focusing on digital curation. From the web site: | ||
| Earth System Curator | 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 | ||
| Geoinformatics.info | 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." | ||
| Inference Web | The Inference web supports interoperable explanations of sources, assumptions, learned information, and answers as an enabler for trust | ||
| International Polar Year (IPY) | |||
| International Polar Year Data and Information Service (IPYDIS) | The International Polar Year Data and Information Service (IPYDIS) is a global partnership of data centers, archives, and networks working to ensure proper stewardship of IPY and related data. The International Polar Year is a massive international scientific programme focused on the Arctic and the Antarctic from March 2007 to March 2009. | ||
| LT4eL: Language Technology for eLearning | The LT4eL project is supported by the European Community under the Information Society and Media Directorate, Learning and Cultural Heritage Unit. The technology will facilitate personalized access to knowledge within learning management systems and support decentralisation and co-operation in content management.
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| Marine Metadata Interoperability (MMI) Project | The Marine Metadata Interoperability project provides many different services to increase marine data interoperability. It is not a standards-setting or standards-endorsing body, but is a community-based project that provides as much information about these standards as possible. | ||
| National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) | From the NBII website: | ||
| NEPTUNE Canada | The NEPTUNE Canada Project (North-East Pacific Time-Series Underwater Networked Experiments) currently has 800 km of cable connecting a suite of oceanographic instruments and video cameras in the "first regional-scale underwater ocean observatory that plugs directly into the Internet." The observatory, located in the Northeast Pacific off the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, is "collecting data from 11 instrument platforms and over 50 instruments installed in 4 locations" along the 800-km cable. | ||
| Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) | The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) is an NSF-funded initiative to bring transformative technologies and approaches to ocean science. It has 4 components, Global, Regional, Coastal, and Cyberinfrastructure. Its research-focused observatories will be networked and will contribute to the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS). From the OOI Website: | ||
| OceanSITES | OceanSITES is a project designed to make time series data from long-term ocean reference stations widely available. The sizable international group has been meeting for several years, and has preliminary documents describing data distribution practices and a standard format for netCDF files. Their NetCDF implementation is based on the Climate and Forecast (CF) convention. | ||
| OGC Creating URN Resolver | The techical team at OGC is creating a system to resolve URNs (Uniform Resource Names), and would like your input. The Open Geospatial Consortium has begun implementing a prototype service that relates internet uniform resource names, or URNs, to their corresponding web sites, or to other web resources. This service, called a URN resolver, is the first of its type for the environmental community. They would like feedback from the community on this service. | ||
| OneGeology | OneGeology is an international initiative of the geological surveys of the world and a flagship project of the ‘International Year of Planet Earth’. Its aim is to create dynamic geological map data of the world available via the web. This will create a focus for accessing geological information for everyone. | ||
| OOSTethys | Description Framework to develop, test and implement easy-to-use, open-source software to advance interoperability of marine information systems. OOSTethys goal is to develop capabilities that will advance and support initiatives such as the IOOS, OOI, GEOSS and others. | ||
| Open Archives Initiative | The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. OAI has its roots in the open access and institutional repository movements. | ||
| Plazi.org - the digital repository for species descriptions | Information from their web site: Plazi is an association supporting and promoting the development of persistent and openly accessible digital taxonomic literature. To this end Plazi will: * Maintain a digital taxonomic literature repository to enable archiving of taxonomic treatments. * Enhance submitted taxonomic treatments by creating taxonx XML versions. | ||
| POGO Ocean Cruises | Project IntroductionThis is a website for Research Vessels larger than 60 meters that are engaged in ocean research. It is trying to collect relevant metadata about these vessels, and their operations, in one place. Ship operators and laboratories are invited to contribute. The co-ordinators of this website initiative are actively compiling lists of qualifying vessels and contributions from operators for regular input and maintenance of the databases. | ||
| Q2O | As the scientific community prepares to participate in the development of ocean observing systems and systems of systems, data managers are struggling with the need to provide relevant and unambiguous information to enable selective evaluation of data quality in real time. | ||
| Satlantic Sensor Metadata | Sensor metadata formats used by the Satlantic Data Acquisition and Control Network (DACNet) operating system for ocean observatories. | ||
| SeaDataNet Project | Project IntroductionThe European Union has funded a significant multi-national, multi-system data management project called SeaDataNet. This 6-year project (2006-2011) will provide metadata, data and products as a unique virtual data centre. The project is constructing a standardized distributed system for managing the large and diverse data sets collected by the oceanographic fleets and the new automatic observation systems. | ||
| SEEK Initiative | SEEK aims to help ecologists "efficiently capture, organize and search for data and analytical processes from their desk-top in a user friendly interface". | ||
| SWING (geospatial semantic web services) | SWING is a European project targeting necessary semantic infrastructure for geospatial web services. Information culled from the home page. | ||
| Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory | From the web site: "The VSTO portal uses an underlying ontology (i.e. an organized knowledge base of the SSTSP domain) to present a general interface that allows selection and retrieval of products (ascii and binary data files, images, plots) from heterogenous external data services." |
