Selected References, based on Content Standard
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Title | Description | Reference Type | Reference Topic |
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| ABCD: Access to Biological Data Collections | DescriptionThe Access to Biological Collections Data (ABCD) is an XML-based common data specification for biological collection units, including living and preserved specimens, along with field observations that did not produce voucher specimens. As stated on the ABCD website: "The purpose of the ABCD Task Group is to foster accessibility of existing and emerging biological collection data banks at the international level by developing and maintaining a comprehensive and commented schema for biological collection records (ABCD Schema). | ||
| Arctic Observing Network Data Questionnaire | Covers data formats and metadata needs for AON project. Over 20 respondents, 300 sites, 200 parameters, 20 unique sites, 15 real-time teams. | ||
| Auxiliary Description of Instruments | In order to support defining metadata for instruments, GCMD is working on a content standard called AD-I, for Auxiliary Description of Instruments. This standard would serve to extend the DIF metadata currently accepted. AD-I was introduced in draft form for Track 1 DIF work of the MMI Sensors Metadata Interoperability workshop. | ||
| BagIt! from Library of Congress | The BagIt File Package Format: A hierarchical file package format suitable for the exchange of generalized archival content via the network or hard-disk. The "bag" has just enough structure to safely enclose its payload but does not require deep knowledge about its internal semantics. Also available as an Internet-Draft | ||
| Biological Data Profile for the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata | |||
| CCDS: Canonical Cruise Data Structure | SIOExplorer: Overview, initial results and next steps Stephen Miller, John Helly, Marty Africa, Uta Peckman, Deborah Day and Dru Clark The new SIOExplorer project, which is a collection in the overall NSF-funded National Science Digital Library (www.nsdl.org). The collaborative effort includes researchers at SIO, computer scientists from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), and archivists and librarians from the UCSD Library. | ||
| Climate Science Modelling Language | Description The emerging standards of ISO TC211 for earth-related information provide a general framework for broad data interoperability: | ||
| CODAR metadata compliant with FGDC as *.mif | The link address is: http://nsdl.sdsc.edu/tools/ERESE_metadata/mif/CODAR.mif | ||
| Content Standards Field Comparison Matrix: HTML | The HTML file in the attachment can be downloaded and opened from within your browser, or viewed directly in some browsers. | ||
| Content Standards Field Comparison Matrix: PDF | You will need to increase the zoom to read the text in the matrix. | ||
| CTD Data from Joint USGS Cruise 03008 and NOAA RB0303 | |||
| CTD Profiles from the Oregon II 2002 SEAMAP Summer Groundfish Cruise | |||
| DAML | From Website: "The DAML language is being developed as an extension to XML and the Resource Description Framework (RDF). The latest release of the language (DAML+OIL) provides a rich set of constructs with which to create ontologies and to markup information so that it is machine readable and understandable." | ||
| Darwin Core | The Darwin Core is a metadata specification for information about the geographic occurrence of species and the existence of specimens in collections. It is used by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. It has a wiki site and a Task Group within Biodiversity Information Standards. | ||
| DIG35 Metadata for Digital images | |||
| Directory Interchange Format | The Directory Interchange Format, or DIF, was developed to catalog earth and atmospheric resources.
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| Dublin Core Metadata Initiative DCMI | The Dublin Core Metadata Standard includes a specification of all metadata terms maintained by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, including elements, element refinements, encoding schemes, and vocabulary terms (the DCMI Type Vocabulary). Although the standard was developed for bibliographic purposes, primarily, it has also been used for other metadata documentation purposes. | ||
| Earth Science Education Metadata Content Standards |
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| Earth Science Markup Language | The Information Technology & Systems Center of the University of Alabama is developing the Earth Science Markup Language which makes possible sharing and transformation of files from one format to another. ESML defines documents in XML to describe any format file with the required elements so a computer program can interpret the data. | ||
| Ecological Metadata Language (EML) | EML is based on prior work done by the Ecological Society of America and associated efforts (Michener et al., 1997, Ecological Applications). EML is implemented as a series of XML document types that can by used in a modular and extensible manner to document ecological data. Each EML module is designed to describe one logical part of the total metadata that should be included with any ecological dataset. | ||
| EU MarineXML Standards Report | This document identifies relevant standards, emanating from both from marine applications as well as from outside the marine domain. About 50 standards have been proposed for inclusion in the study and thereafter analysed to decide whether and how they should be used in the MarineXML development. | ||
| EXIF: Exchangeable Image FIle Format | This standard was developed by JEIDA, the Japan ELectronics and Information Technology Industries Association, for documenting images. | ||
| FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM) | DescriptionCSDGM is applicable to any geospatial data. Its goal is to define the information required by a prospective user to determine the availability of a set of geospatial data, the fitness the set of geospatial data for an intended use, and the means of accessing the set of geospatial data, and to enable successful transfer. It was developed in response to Presidential Executive Order 12906, "Coordinating Geographic Data Acquisition and Access: The National Spatial Data Infrastructure". TypeContent Standard | ||
| Florida Keys Benthic Habitats | Metadata Example for Florida Keys Benthic Habitats digital geography available in a Arc-View Shape-file. | ||
| Geography Markup Language GML | |||
| Global Information Locator Service (GILS) | |||
| IEEE 1451 | There is no strong center of the IEEE 1451 web presence, but a google search on "IEEE 1451" finds many interesting and useful references. IEEE 1451 is a comprehensive, extremely detailed standard for describing sensors and actuators (together, "transducers"). From the web site: | ||
| IPTC Core - Metadata for Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) | This standard was developed for documenting images, particularly for use by the news media. It was produced by the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC), a consortium of the world's major news agencies and news industry vendors. IPTC develops and maintains technical standards for improved news exchange that are used by news organization around the world. | ||
| ISO 15836 | As described on the ISO webpage for this standard, ISO 15836:2003 is applicable to DCMI's Dublin Core metadata element set which deals with cross-domain information resource description. ISO 15836:2003 is for the element set only, which is generally used in the context of a specific project or application. Local or community based requirements and policies may impose additional restrictions, rules, and interpretations. It is not the purpose of ISO 15836:2003 to define the detailed criteria by which the element set will be used with specific projects and applications. | ||
| ISO 19115 Metadata Standard for Geographic Information | |||
| ISO 19139 Geographic information Metadata XML schema implementation | Links: | ||
| ISO 8601 (Dates and Times) | See the following references about this (rather comprehensive) standard: | ||
| ISO Technical Committee 211 on Geographic information and Geomatics | Description The Technical Committee 211 of ISO aims to establish a structured set of standards for information concerning objects or phenomena that are directly or indirectly associated with a location relative to the Earth. | ||
| ISO/IEC 11179 - A standard for metadata registries | ISO/IEC 11179 promotes the following: | ||
| Keyhole Markup Language: KML | Keyhole Markup Language, or KML, is a simple but powerful file format for displaying geographic data in an earth browser, such as Google Earth or Google Maps. Increasingly, people are starting to use it in their own applications to represent geographic data. | ||
| Marine Community Profile of ISO 19115 | |||
| Marine XML | The Marine XML (eXstensible Markup Language) structure has been developed to encapsulate marine data. It provides an efficient means to store, transfer and display marine data. | ||
| Metadata Standards Comparison Matrix Initiated | The IOOS (Integrated Ocean Observing System) Data Management and Communications Metadata Expert Team initiated a matrix comparing metadata standards and schema. | ||
| MGD77: Marine Geophysical Data Exchange Format | MGD77 is an exchange format for marine geophysical data (bathymetry, magnetics, and gravity). It is intended to be used for the transmission of data to and from a data center and may be useful for the exchange of data to and from a data center and may be useful for the exchange of data between marine institutions. | ||
| N4242 XML based standard | This standard specifies the XML data format that shall be used for both required and optional data to be made available by radiation instruments. The purpose of the ANSI N42.42 standard is to facilitate manufacturer-independent transfer of information from radiation measurement instruments for use in Homeland Security. | ||
| NASA Ames Format for Data Exchange | This standard was developed at NASA Ames Research Center during the Stratosphere Troposphere Exchange Project (STEP), when uniform rules to record data were needed to facilitate the data exchange between the participants and allow shared use of a minimised amount of software to analyse and display different datasets. It emphasizes portability, readibility by humans, and self-description of the data. | ||
| NetCDF Classic and 64-bit Offset File Formats Standard | The NetCDF Classic and 64-bit Offset File Formats Standard has been formally recognized by the NASA Earth Standards Data Systems Working Groups (ESDSWG), thereby providing a well documented, widely accepted reference for the netCDF format. | ||
| NetCDF Conventions | http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/netcdf/conventions.html Published NetCDF conventions provide a standardized implementation of the NetCDF system. Some include standard names and demonstrate good metadata guidelines. | ||
| NetCDF Standard | The netCDF file standard is a very widely used binary file specification. There are many software Application Programmer Interfaces (APIs) compatible with the netCDF file format. Unidata also maintains links to a number of specific, defined standard NetCDF implementations, supported by the global Conventions attribute described in the Attribute Conventions section of the netCDF User's Guide. | ||
| North Americal Profile of ISO 19115 | The North American Profile of the 19115 standard (NAP) was developed jointly by the US and Canada to bring federal geospatial metadata standards in line with international standards, and thus foster international data integration and interoperability. As a profile built on ISO 19115, all metadata that are compliant with the NAP will also be ISO 19115 compliant. | ||
| Notes for Reformatting CS Matrix | HTML Format To create the HTML format, do | ||
| OBIS Schema | The OBIS schema is the content standard used by OBIS, the Ocean Biogeographic Information System. It represents an extension of the Darwin Core Version 2. It is designed for marine biodiversity data, specifically to record the capture or observation of a particular species or other taxonomic group at a particular location. It can also be applied to museum specimen data. | ||
| OceanSITES NetCDF Convention | OceanSITES is a project to assimilate measurements from long-term ocean reference stations measuring dozens of variables and monitoring the full depth of the ocean from air-sea interactions down to 5,000 meters. The OceanSITES data managment team has developed specific guidance for the implementation of netCDF conventions. TypeContent Standard | ||
| Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) | Description From the OGC website: Vision: A world in which everyone benefits from geographic information and services made available across any network, application, or platform. Mission:Our core mission is to deliver spatial interface specifications that are openly available for global use. | ||
| Planktic foraminifer census data from Northwind Ridge core 5 Arctic Ocean | |||
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| Remote Sensing Extension to FGDC CSDGM | This extension includes metadata elements necessary to describe data obtained through remote sensing. The metadata elements include those describing the sensor, the platform, the method and process of deriving geospatial information from the raw telemetry, and the information needed to determine the geographical location of the remotely sensed data. Metadata elements to support aggregation are also supported. | ||
| Reports on Content Standards and Metadata Surveys | EU MarineXML Standards ReportA report produced by the EU Marine XML project documenting a wide range of formal and de facto standards that were considered relevant to the development of the MarineXML. Using Metadata Standards to Achieve Data InteroperabilityProceedings of a Technical Symposium and Workshop, 13-14 June 2006 | ||
| SEACOOS NetCDF Standard | NOTE: The SEACOOS project has terminated, although many resources are still on line. The SECOORA project is currently updating these resources and will be publishing new versions sometime in 2009. Please use the links on this page with caution, as they are now deprecated.
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| SEEGRID Application Schemas | This item does not have any body text, click the edit tab to change it. | ||
| SensorML | A mature and active specification. The model is presented in several different forms (graphical, XML schema), with lots of documentation, and so should be useful to most developers. The following description was taken from the web site on 2004.11.20. Purpose: SensorML provides the models and XML schema encoding for defining the geometric, dynamic, and observational characteristics of a sensor. The purpose of SensorML is: | ||
| SEPIA Data Element Set (SEPIADES) | SEPIADES is a software tool for cataloguing photographic collections/archives; the tool is based on a set of described metadata. Records are stored in XML. It was produced by the European Commission on Preservation and Access (ECPA); ECPA was established to promote activities aimed at keeping collections in European archives and libraries accessible over time. | ||
| Shoreline Profile for FGDC | The Shoreline Metadata Profile provides the format and content for describing data sets related to shoreline and other coastal data sets. The Profile includes a shoreline glossary, which provides the working vocabulary for shoreline topics and thesaurus for the metadata standard. The Profile includes additional elements for shoreline data and some changes in the optionality of elements. | ||
| Standard for the CF Metadata Conventions | From Abstract: [The] document nominates the Climate and Forecast (CF) Metadata Conventions [1] for adoption as a NASA ESDSWG community standard. The CF Metadata Conventions are intended to promote interoperability among data providers, data users, and data services by providing a clear and unambiguous standard for representing geolocations and times of earth-science data, physical quantities that the data represent, and other ancillary information useful in interpreting the data or comparing it with data from other sources. | ||
| The CERA Data Model | Developed by the World Data Center for Climate (WDCC), the Climate and Environmental Retrieving and Archiving (CERA) system consists of a core part (42 RDBMS tables, grouped as 12 Blocks) and various CERA Modules (table groups). | ||
| ThermoML - Thermodynamics Markup Language | Frenkel et al., XML-BASED IUPAC STANDARD FOR EXPERIMENTAL, PREDICTED, AND CRITICALLY EVALUATED THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTY DATA STORAGE AND CAPTURE (ThermoML). Pure Appl. Chem., Vol. 78, No. 3, pp. 541–612, 2006. (© IUPAC 2006). | ||
| TransducerML | TML is a digital data structure that permits streaming and is used to exchange data between a sensor and a processor. TML is an XML based specification that describes how to capture and time tag sensor data. It also includes a complete description of the data. Since TML is self-contained, a TML enabled processor is able to process data from any sensor without any additional information. | ||
| Using Metadata Standards to Achieve Data Interoperability | The link address is: http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/csas/Csas/Proceedings/2006/PRO2006_023_E.pdf | ||
| WMO Core Metadata Standard | This is a draft metadata standard for the WMO and is a core profile to ISO 19115. The expert team's documents reference a controlled vocabulary, but also emphasize the need to build ontologies. | ||
| World Spatial Metadata Standards | "World Spatial Metadata Standards" is a book by the International Cartographic Association's Spatial Data Standards Commission |
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