Vocabularies on SeaDataNet Web
Vocabularies available through the SeaDataNet web interface.
The following vocabularies are available:
| Long Name | Description |
|---|---|
| BODC instrument category | Terms used to categorise instrumentation or methodology used to obtain data. |
| International Hydrographic Bureau (1953) sea areas | Terms used for sea areas from International Hydrographic Bureau, Limits of Oceans and Seas (Special Publication No. 23), 3rd edition 1953. |
| IOC cruise summary report sea area extensions | Terms for sea areas added to the IHB (1953) list to provide the standardised sea area descriptions used in IOC cruise summary form reporting. Celtic Sea was formally adopted by IHB. |
| IHB Sea Areas | IHB Sea Areas |
| United Kingdom ship names | Names of ships registered in the UK or operated by UK organisations that are known to be engaged in the collection of oceanographic data. |
| Non-UK ship names | Names of ships operated by organisations outside the UK that are known to be engaged in the collection of oceanographic data. |
| Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean ships of interest | Research vessels deemed to be of interest to POGO. 'Of interest' is defined as active ocean-going research vessels greater than 60m in length. |
| SeaDataNet Cruise Summary Report ship metadata | Ship instances (a hull operating under a given name and governance type) used in SeaDataNet CSR forms including metadata in the definition to allow reliable mapping to ship hull databases. |
| PLATFORM CODE | PLATFORM CODE |
| Intergovenmental Oceanographic Commission countries | Country names published by ICES on behalf of IOC as part of their RNODC (formats) responsibility. Maintained until 2003. |
| World Meteorological Organisation voluntary observing ship category | WMO ship type codes used to classify voluntary observing ships from http://www.wmo.int/web/www/ois/pub47/pub47-home.htm. |
| International Standards Organisation countries | ISO country codes from ISO3166-1 list taken from www.iso.org on 22/08/2007. |
| International Standards Organisation deprecated country codes | Deprecated ISO country codes from the ISO3166-3 list. |
| ISO country codes from ISO3166 list | ISO country codes from ISO3166 list |
| NERC DataGrid data production tool category | Abbreviated terms used to specify categories of data production tools in the NERC DataGrid MOLES metadata schema. |
| Monitoring activity rationale | Terms describing the reasons why a monitoring activity was undertaken. |
| Monitoring activity legislative drivers | Legislative acts, agreements and treaties that have provided the impetus for monitoring activities to be undertaken. |
| Ten-degree Marsden Squares | Labels applied to areas of ten degrees latitude by ten degrees longitude in the Marsden Square system. |
| Five-degree Marsden Squares | Labels applied to areas of five degrees latitude by five degrees longitude in the Marsden Square system. |
| Marsden Squares | Marsden Squares |
| Ports Gazetteer | Geographic locations from which a cruise may begin or end |
| Ports Gazetteer Deprecated Entries | Entries that have been defined in the C381 cruise start and end point gazetteer, but have been deprecated. |
| Point feature gazetteer | Point feature gazetteer |
| NERC DataGrid vocabulary term relationships | Terms used in the NDG project to describe the relationship between subjects and objects in RDF triples, including vocabulary term mappings |
| Post town nil-value terms | Terms to be used in 'city' or 'post town' metadata fields to indicate that no value has been supplied to the field. |
| United Kingdom post towns | Terms to be used in 'city' or 'post town' metadata fields for addresses in the United Kingdom. |
| Terms to be used in the city field of address metadata (i.e. post towns) | Terms to be used in the city field of address metadata (i.e. post towns) |
| County or administrative region nil-value terms | Terms to be used in 'county' metadata fields to indicate that no value has been supplied for that field. |
| United Kingdom counties | Terms to be used in 'county' metadata fields for addresses in the UK. Covers mainland Britain, Northern Ireland, Channel Isles, Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Orkney, Shetland Islands and Hebrides. |
| German states | Terms to be used in 'county' metadata fields for addresses in post-reunification Germany. |
| Irish Republic counties | Terms to be used in 'county' metadata fields for addresses in the Republic of Ireland. |
| United States of America states | Terms to be used in 'county' metadata fields for addresses in the United States of America |
| Terms to be used in the county field of address metadata. | Terms to be used in the county field of address metadata. |
| ROSCOP physical oceanography category | Terms used to describe shipboard activities (sometimes inaccurately described as parameters) in the physical oceanography domain. |
| ROSCOP chemical oceanography category | Terms used to describe shipboard activities (sometimes inaccurately described as parameters) in the chemical oceanography domain. |
| ROSCOP contaminants category | Terms used to describe shipboard activities (sometimes inaccurately described as parameters) in the contaminants domain. |
| ROSCOP biology and fisheries category | Terms used to describe shipboard activities (sometimes inaccurately described as parameters) in the biology and fisheries domain. |
| ROSCOP meteorology category | Terms used to describe shipboard activities (sometimes inaccurately described as parameters) in the meteorology domain. |
| ROSCOP geology and geophysics category | Terms used to describe shipboard activities (sometimes inaccurately described as parameters) in the geology and geophysics domain. |
| ICES ROSCOP DATA TYPES | ICES ROSCOP DATA TYPES |
| BODC project roles | Terms used by BODC to describe roles associated with scientific projects. |
| BODC data production tool roles | Terms used by BODC to describe roles associated with instrumentation or other data production tools such as models. |
| BODC data access right roles | Terms used by BODC to describe roles associated with access rights to data. |
| BODC data activity roles | Terms used by BODC to describe roles associated with specific data collection activities such as cruises and discrete fieldwork activities. |
| SeaDataNet Contact Roles | Terms used to define the responsibilities for a contact (person or organisation) either within the SeaDataNet project or for the datasets described by SeaDataNet metadata. |
| SeaDataNet security access control roles | Terms used by the SeaDataNet project to describe roles associated with access rights to data, metadata and project information. |
| Role Definitions | Role Definitions |
| Vocabulary Server list subject categories | Terms used to classify the lists held in the Vocabulary Server (formerly known as code tables) by the subject of their contents. |
| Environment of the Organism (EnvO) ontology base terms | Terms assembled by the EnvO community to describe the environment of an organism or biological sample. |
| SeaDataNet Measurement Periodicity Classes | Terms used to express a classification of measurement periodicity in the SeaDataNet project. |
| SeaDataNet sample collector categories | Terms used to describe groups of devices that collect water, suspended matter, sediment, rock, air or biota samples. |
| SeaDataNet sensor and instrument package categories | Terms used to describe groups of sensors or packages that make physical, chemical, biological or geological measurements in place in the field. |
| SeaDataNet remote sensor categories | Terms used to describe groups of devices that take images of the environment or make measurements in the field with making contact with the measured entity. |
| SeaDataNet device categories | SeaDataNet device categories |
| SeaDataNet Platform Classes | Classes of vehicles, objects, structures or organisms capable of bearing instruments or tools for the collection of physical, chemical, geological or biological samples. |
| SEA-SEARCH data access mechanisms | Terms for mechanisms by which data objects described by SeaDataNet Central Data Index (CDI) records may be obtained before SeaDataNet is fully implemented. |
| SeaDataNet Data Access Restriction Policies | Terms used to represent and classify data access policies in operation in the SeaDataNet project. |
| SeaDataNet geographic co-ordinate reference frames | Co-ordinate reference systems used for positions (latitude/longitude or grid references) in SeaDataNet metadata. May include 3D co-ordinate systems, but not vertical elevation datums like OD Newlyn. |
| Height and Depth Vertical Co-ordinate Reference Datums | Terms used to describe the zero point (datum) for vertical co-ordinate reference systems with dimensionality of length. |
| Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages | Terms used to describe data coverage over the vertical (z) co-ordinate. |
| SeaDataNet Activity Operational Stati | Terms used to describe the operational status of data collection activities within the SeaDataNet project. |
| ROSCOP sample quantification units | Terms used as units in the quantification of what was collected or measured in a Cruise Summary Report (ROSCOP) record. |
| SeaDataNet measurand qualifier flags | Flags used to provide additional information, usually referring to data quality, about data values in SeaDataNet data files. |
| SeaDataNet metadata entities | Types of metadata record in the SeaDataNet metadata catalogue repositories. |
| SeaDataNet data transport formats | Formats used for data delivery by SeaDataNet. |
| NERC DataGrid Data Provider Groups | Groups of organisations who provide discovery metadata collections to NERC DataGrid that are held such that the collections may be searched separately. |
| NERC DataGrid Recognised Formats | Formats recognised by NDG, where this may allow conditional treatment. See also http://proj.badc.rl.ac.uk/ndg/browser/TI07-MOLES/trunk/Documents/NDG_MOLES_Instructions_for_Creation.doc |
| Climate Science Modelling Language supported feature types | Terms used to specify the feature types available for coverages in the Climate Science Modelling Language (CSML). |
| NERC DataGrid on-line reference types | Terms describing types of on-line references in NERC DataGrid service bindings. |
| BODC Parameter Usage Vocabulary | Terms built using the BODC parameter semantic model designed to descibe individual measured phenomena. May be used to mark up sets of data such as a NetCDF array or spreadsheet column. |
| BODC Parameter Discovery Vocabulary | Terms describing fine-grained related groups of measurement phenomena designed to be used in dataset discovery interfaces. |
| SeaDataNet Agreed Parameter Groups | Terms agreed within the EU SeaDataNet community to describe coarse-grained groupings of related measurement phenomena. |
| SeaDataNet Agreed Parameter Group deprecates | Deprecated terms agreed within the EU SeaDataNet community to describe coarse-grained groupings of related measurement phenomena. |
| SeaDataNet Agreed Parameter Groups | SeaDataNet Agreed Parameter Groups |
| Global Change Master Directory Science Keywords | Concatenated category, topic, term and variable separated by '>'. From Olsen L.M. et. al (2006) NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords Version 5.3.3. http://gcmd.nasa.gov/Resources/valids/keyword_list.html |
| Global Change Master Directory deprecated Science Keywords | Concatenated category, topic, term and variable separated by chevrons that were formerly in a published version of GCMD Earth Science Keywords. |
| GCMD Science Keywords | GCMD Science Keywords |
| International Standards Organisation ISO19115 Topic Categories | Terms defined by ISO describing data themes. Used to populate the mandatory ISO19115 topic category field. |
| BODC data storage units | Terms used by BODC to describe the measurement units for data held in its repositories. |
| Climate and Forecast Standard Names | Terms used for definitive but not necessarily comprehensive descriptions of measured phenomena in the CF conventions (a content standard for data stored in NetCDF). |
| SeaDataNet Parameter Disciplines | Terms used to classify SeaDataNet Agreed Parameter Groups to provide topic/theme level terms in a hierarchical parameter discovery interface. |
| MEDATLAS Parameter Usage Vocabulary | Terms under the content governance of SISMER used to describe measured phenomena within the MEDATLAS project. |
| MEDATLAS Parameter Usage Vocabulary deprecated terms | Terms formerly used to describe parameters in the MEDATLAS data format that have subsequently been withdrawn. |
| MEDATLAS parameter usage vocabulary | MEDATLAS parameter usage vocabulary |
| Global Change Master Directory Instrument Keywords | Terms used to describe sensors, instruments and other pieces of scientific equipment in the NASA Global Change Master Directory metadatabase. |
| Global Change Master Directory Science Keyword categories | Category level terms from the Science Keywords from Olsen L.M. et. al (2006) NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords Version 5.3.3. http://gcmd.nasa.gov/Resources/valids/keyword_list.html |
| Global Change Master Directory Science Keyword topics | Topic level terms from the Science Keywords from Olsen L.M. et. al (2006) NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords Version 5.3.3. http://gcmd.nasa.gov/Resources/valids/keyword_list.html |
| Global Change Master Directory Science Keyword terms | Term level terms from the Science Keywords from Olsen L.M. et. al (2006) NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords Version 5.3.3. http://gcmd.nasa.gov/Resources/valids/keyword_list.html |
| Global Change Master Directory deprecated Science Keyword terms | Term level terms formerly used in the Science Keywords from Olsen et. al (2006) GCMD Earth Science Keywords. http://gcmd.nasa.gov/Resources/valids/keyword_list.html that have been deleted by GCMD. |
| GCMD Terms | GCMD Terms |
| Global Change Master Directory Science Keyword variables | Variable level terms from the Science Keywords from Olsen L.M. et. al (2006) NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords Version 5.3.3. http://gcmd.nasa.gov/Resources/valids/keyword_list.html |
| Global Change Master Directory Science Keyword deprecated variables | Variable level terms that have previously existed in published versions of the GCMD Science Keywords. |
| GCMD Variables | GCMD Variables |
| Climate and Forecast Cell Methods | Terms used to describe measured phenomena derivation algorithms in the CF conventions (a content standard for data stored in NetCDF), primarily targeted at statistical parameters. |
| Global Change Master Directory Chronostratigraphic Units | Chronostratigraphic unit terms from Olsen L.M. et. al (2006) NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords Version 5.3.3. http://gcmd.nasa.gov/Resources/valids/keyword_list.html |
| Global Change Master Directory URL content types | Terms used in NASA's GCMD to describe the function of related URLs embedded in DIF metadata records. Also used for NERC DataGrid service bindings. |
| Marisaurus thesaurus terms | Base terms (all hierarchical levels) interlinked by a relationship network to build the Marisaurus thesaurus. |
| BODC parameter semantic model component names | Terms used to describe the information entities that are combined in the BODC semantic model to produce a phenomenon description. |
| BODC parameter semantic model relationships between what theme and where theme | Terms used to describe the relationship between the 'where theme' and the 'what theme' in the BODC semantic model for measured phenomena descriptions |
| BODC parameter semantic model sample preparation entity descriptions | Controlled vocabulary defining the terms that may be used for a sample preparation entity (part of the how theme) in the BODC parameter semantic model. |
| BODC parameter semantic model analytical method entity descriptions | Controlled vocabulary defining the terms that may be used for an analytical method entity (part of the how theme) in the BODC parameter semantic model. |
| BODC parameter semantic model parameter entity names | Controlled vocabulary defining the terms that may be used for a parameter entity (part of the what theme) in the BODC parameter semantic model. |
| BODC parameter semantic model parameter statistic | Controlled vocabulary defining the terms that may be used for a parameter statistic (part of the what theme) in the BODC parameter semantic model. |
| BODC parameter semantic model parameter entity subgroup names | Controlled vocabulary defining the terms that may be used for a parameter entity subgroup (part of the what theme qualifying a generic parameter entity) in the BODC parameter semantic model. |
| BODC parameter semantic model biological entity size terms | Controlled vocabulary defining the terms that may be used for biological entity size (part of the what theme) in the BODC parameter semantic model. |
| BODC parameter semantic model biological entity gender terms | Controlled vocabulary defining the terms that may be used for biological entity gender (part of the what theme) in the BODC parameter semantic model. |
| BODC parameter semantic model biological entity development stage terms | Controlled vocabulary defining the terms that may be used for biological entity development stage (part of the what theme) in the BODC parameter semantic model. |
| BODC parameter semantic model biological entity subcomponent terms | Controlled vocabulary defining the terms that may be used for biological entity (component of the what theme) plant or animal parts in the BODC parameter semantic model. |
| BODC parameter semantic model biological entity subgroup terms | Controlled vocabulary defining the terms that may be used for ad-hoc qualification of a biological entity (component of the what theme) in the BODC parameter semantic model. |
| BODC parameter semantic model biological entity morphology terms | Controlled vocabulary defining the terms that may be used for morphology of a biological entity (component of the what theme) in the BODC parameter semantic model. |
| BODC parameter semantic model biological entity colour terms | Controlled vocabulary defining the terms that may be used for colour or optical appearance of a biological entity (component of the what theme) in the BODC parameter semantic model. |
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Posted December 20th, 2007 by kwalz
