Initiatives

COMPASS

graybeal — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:26:00 -0800

The COMPASS (Coastal Marine Perception Application for Scientific Scholarship) project is investigating the development of semantic tools for assisting those conducting research on coastal and marine environments. They have targeted demonstrating an ontologically-driven knowledge infrastructure for the marine domain.

DIGARCH Interoperability Framework

hellyj — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:38:00 -0800

DMAC Implementation Plan

graybeal — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:31:00 -0700

The DMAC Implementation Plan contains an integrated architecture for data management and communications in a national (U.S.), sustained ocean observing system. It is detailed, comprehensive, and mature, having been through many review cycles by many reviewers.

There is a lot of discussion of metadata in the DMAC Implementation Plan.

Geospatial One-Stop

dzimble — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:49:00 -0700

The Geospatial One-Stop Initiative is an intergovernmental project managed by the Department of the Interior in support of the President's Initiative for E-government. Geospatial One-Stop builds upon its partnership with the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) to improve the ability of the public and government to use geospatial information to support the business of government and facilitate decision-making.

GEOSS Standards and Interoperability Forum (SIF)

graybeal — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:26:00 -0800

GEOSS' Standards Interoperability Forum (SIF) is a committee of people who will support the interoperability requirements of GEOSS. per the GEOSS Standards Committee web site, it is intended "to facilitate the interchange of information, and make recommendations for standards and interoperability arrangements in GEOSS".

NASA Standards Process Group

graybeal — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:48:00 -0800

References

Description

NASA's Earth Sciences Data Systems Standards Process Group regularly reviews standards and techical developments of interest to the earth science data management community. They work with many of the same standards as the marine metadata community, and must follow many of the same technical developments.

Meetings address topics such as:

NASA Standards Process Group Mtg Held

graybeal — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:52:00 -0700

Survey for UNOLS RVTEC (and the Research Vehicle Community)

srsmith — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:21:00 -0700

UNOLS RVTEC

UNOLS Research Vessel Technical Enhancement Committee

graybeal — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:15:00 -0700

The link address is: http://www.unols.org/committees/rvtec

UNOLS RVTEC

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

kwalz — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:38:00 -0800