Initiative Topics

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."

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.

DIGARCH Interoperability Framework

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

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

GEO

ngalbraith — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:33:56 -0700

The Group on Earth Observations is coordinating efforts to build a Global Earth Observation System of Systems, or GEOSS.

GEO was launched in response to calls for action by the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development and by the G8 (Group of Eight) leading industrialized countries. These high-level meetings recognized that international collaboration is essential for exploiting the growing potential of Earth observations to support decision making in an increasingly complex and environmentally stressed world.

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."

GEOSS

ngalbraith — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:14:35 -0700

The Global Earth Observation System of Systems will provide decision-support tools to a wide variety of users. As with the Internet, GEOSS will be a global and flexible network of content providers allowing decision makers to access an extraordinary range of information at their desks.

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

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:

MMI Ontology Registry and Repository

carueda — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:35:27 -0800

The MMI Ontology Registry and Repository is a Web-based application where ontology providers and users can collaborate to create, host, annotate, share, and use ontologies of relevance to the marine science community.

This set of services is a key component of the Semantic Framework being devoloped by the Marine Metadata Interoperability Project (MMI).

For more information, please visit: http://marinemetadata.org/semanticframework

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

NGDC Marine & Geological Samples Database

druclark — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:21:00 -0800

January 2002 Parameters & Information. Index to Marine and Lacustrine Geological Samples database at the National Geophysical Data Center. This includes basic sample collection, storage, lithology, and age data for the sample holdings of the major US oceanographic institutions and government agencies.

OID Repository

graybeal — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:18:16 -0700

A site "sponsored by French Telecom" that offers OID registration services (and links to some additional information).

The purpose and permanence of the site are not addressed in the associated web pages.

Considerable references about OID standards may be found at this site.

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.

Pine's SensorML Editor

carynn — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:29:47 -0700

From the User Manual

SensorML Editor is a program to assist SensorML researchers to explore and modify SensorML models. It provides the functions to navigate a SensorML model in tree structure, create new model, add\delete\modify existing model and export model in XML format.

Q2O

ngalbraith — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:13:57 -0700

As the scientific community prepares to participate in the development of ocean observing systems and systems of systems, data managers are struggling with the need to provide relevant and unambiguous information to enable selective evaluation of data quality in real time.

Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)

carynn — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:28:25 -0700

From "SKOS Primer"

SKOS — Simple Knowledge Organisation System — provides a model for expressing the basic structure and content of concept schemes such as thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading lists, taxonomies, folksonomies, and other types of controlled vocabulary. As an application of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) SKOS allows concepts to be documented, linked and merged with other data, while still being composed, integrated and published on the World Wide Web.