Initiative Topics

6th Annual National Conference on Digital Government Research

deepseadawn — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:11:00 -0700

The National Science Foundation and the Digital Government Research Center (DGRC) is sponsoring dg.o2005, the 6th annual National Conference on Digital Government Research, May 16 - 18, 2005, in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference also serves as the annual meeting of all NSF digital government researchers.

ad hoc Strategic Committee on Information and Data (SCID)

carynn — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:30:34 -0700

Background, from SCID Homepage

All Ontologies hosted at MMI

luisBer — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:11:00 -0800

All ontologies and thesaurii at MMI

Access to the ontologies hosted by MMI in OWL, with brief descriptions
All ontologies and thesaurii described and linked by MMI

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."

CalCOFI Program

kwalz — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:48:00 -0800

For over 50 years, the CalCOFI study has annually visited 75 stations in Southern California waters.

CeNCOOS

kwalz — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:48:52 -0700

From CeNCOOS website:

The CeNCOOS is part of an evolving national framework of integrated coastal observing systems covering all US coastal areas. This national framework is called the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS).

OceanObs, inventory of ocean and freshwater observing programs:

http://www.cencoos.org/OceanObs/

CODATA Data Science Journal

kwalz — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:31:26 -0700

Description

From Journal website: The Data Science Journal is a peer-reviewed, open access, electronic journal publishing papers on the management of data and databases in Science and Technology. The scope of the Journal includes descriptions of data systems, their publication on the internet, applications and legal issues. All of the Sciences are covered, including the Physical Sciences, Engineering, the Geosciences and the Biosciences, along with Agricultural and the Medical Sciences.

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.

Concept Web Alliance

kstocks — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:25:59 -0700

The mission of the Concept Web Alliance is to enable an open collaborative environment to jointly address the challenges associated with high volume scholarly and professional data production, storage, interoperability and analyses for knowledge discovery.

Content Standards Field Comparison Matrix: Introduction

graybeal — Wed, 23 May 2007 10:22:00 -0700

As part of its mission, the Integrated Ocean Observing System Data Management and Communications (IOOS DMAC) Metadata Expert Team has been working on a list of the fields represented in various content standards. While the work is likely to continue for some time, MMI has been given permission to post and modify a separately maintained version, referenced here.

CUAHSI

kwalz — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:36:26 -0700

From CUAHSI website:

CUAHSI, an organization representing more than one-hundred United States universities, receives support from the National Science Foundation to develop infrastructure and services for the advancement of hydrologic science and education in the U.S.

DAML Ontology Library

kwalz — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:13:57 -0700

Description

From DAML web site: "The goal of the DAML effort is to develop a language and tools to facilitate the concept of the Semantic Web." The Ontology Library currently hosts over 280 ontologies.

Type

Vocabulary/Ontology

Stage of Maturity

Existing - the item is available for public use, has been released or widely adopted, and is sponsored or maintained

Notes:

Producer

DAML

Maintainer

DAML

Users

Ontology developers.

Department of Defense Discovery Metadata Specification Home Page

carueda — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:55:07 -0700

(from the website)

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.

DIGARCH Interoperability Framework

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

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

FGDC Information on Clearinghouses

carynn — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:29:56 -0800

A description of the National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse Network, including details of its construction and operation.

GBits Newsletter from GBIF

graybeal — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:58:18 -0800

GBits is the Global Biodiversity Information Facility electronic newsletter.