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1994 Executive Order (USA) for Geospatial Metadata

graybeal — Wed, 23 May 2007 07:10:00 -0700

Executive Order 12906

Coordinating geographic data acquisition and access: The National Spatial Data Infrastructure

Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) Gazetteer

luisBer — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:36:00 -0800

Description:

Protocol:
- REST (XML and HTTP POST) defined by ADL
Query Capabilities:
- placename
- geographic area
- feature class
- inter-placename relationship
- etc.
Features supported: 5.9 Million

Biodiversity Resource Information Ontology

kwalz — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:55:00 -0800

Biodiversity resource information ontology - introduced species, taxonomic information, geographic location.

GCMD Location Keywords

kwalz — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:20:00 -0800

GCMD list of Location keywords has 6-tier hierarchy: Category > Type > Sub-Region1 > Sub-Region2 > Sub-Region3 > Location. An example of this for an ocean region: Ocean > Pacific Ocean > South Pacific Ocean > Polynesia > Norfolk Island. Informal user addition of keywords, see: Procedure for Keyword Modification.

Geography Markup Language GML

luisBer — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:03:00 -0800

GeoScience Markup Language (GeoSciML)

carynn — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:33:59 -0700

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ICES-SeaDataNet Platform Code

kwalz — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:46:00 -0800

The ICES-SeaDataNet platform code contains a 2-character country code (from ICES/ISO country code) followed by a 2-character vessel code. The vessel identifier is only unique in that country. As of late 2007, there are over 6000 codes for platforms around the world.

Internet (www) Country Code Top-level Domain

kwalz — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:17:00 -0800

The internet (www) country code top-level domain (ccTLD) corresponds to ISO 3166 with few exceptions noted on the websites listed above. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) controls the delegation of ccTLD identifiers which are two letters, such as .uk (an example of an exception for the United Kingdom, gb in ISO 3166).

ISO 3166 Country Codes

kwalz — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:32:00 -0800

ISO 3166 uses a formal, two-letter code for coding names of countries and their subdivisions. ISO 3166-3 is the code for formerly used country names, uses 4-letter alphabetical codes (the first two of which were the original country code).

NGA GEOnet Names Server

luisBer — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:43:00 -0700

The GEOnet Names Server (GNS) provides access to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names' (US BGN) database of foreign geographic feature names. The database is the official repository of foreign place-name decisions approved by the US BGN. Approximately 20,000 of the database's features are updated monthly.

NODC World Ocean Database Country Codes

kwalz — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:18:00 -0800

National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) World Ocean Database 2005 contains country codes that are numbers to 99 followed by 2-letter codes. WOD omits many countries that are landlocked. Informal.

Tennessee Spatial Metadata Clearinghouse

carynn — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:18:02 -0800

From the website:

As GIS systems continue to dot the landscape, metadata has become an essential element of sharing and documenting spatial data. The Tennessee Spatial Metadata Clearinghouse allows users to input, edit, and search spatial metadata for the state of Tennessee.

Sponsored by the Tennessee Geographic Information Council (TNGIC)