Project

BioGeomancer

kwalz — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:25:02 -0700

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

kwalz — Wed, 12 May 2010 09:56:13 -0700

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

kwalz — Wed, 12 May 2010 10:13:52 -0700

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

graybeal — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:10:05 -0800

The Digital Curation Exchange is a community collaboration site much like MMI, focusing on digital curation.

From the web site:

Earth System Curator

ngalbraith — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:32:59 -0700

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

kwalz — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:23:48 -0700

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

carynn — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:07:44 -0700

The Inference web supports interoperable explanations of sources, assumptions, learned information, and answers as an enabler for trust

International Polar Year (IPY)

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:01:31 -0800

The International Polar Year is a large scientific programme focused on the Arctic and the Antarctic from March 2007 to March 2009. It is a massive international collaboration.

International Polar Year Data and Information Service (IPYDIS)

graybeal — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:26:00 -0700

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

ngalbraith — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:36:11 -0800

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.

Tools include:

Marine Metadata Interoperability (MMI) Project

graybeal — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:29:00 -0800

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)

carynn — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:50:59 -0800

From the NBII website:

NEPTUNE Canada

kwalz — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:24:58 -0700

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)

luisBer — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:45:00 -0800

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

graybeal — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:18:00 -0800

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

graybeal — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:50:00 -0800

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

kstocks — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:17:00 -0800

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

luisBer — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:31:00 -0800

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

ngalbraith — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:13:23 -0700

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

kwalz — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:51:44 -0700

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.