Parameter Description

BOG CTD Bottle Data Field Names

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

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute's Biological Ocean Group CTD bottle data (up cast), productivity, physical, and chemical data field names.

BOG CTD Profiling Data Field Names

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

List of field names used for the profiling CTD data set type at MBARI. Describes Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute's Biological Ocean Group samples from the Profiling CTD (down cast), productivity and physical parameters (sensor data). One record for each meter in depth.

British Oceanographic Data Centre Parameter Usage Vocabulary

rkl — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:04:00 -0800

The BODC Parameter Dictionary has been completely overhauled during 2004 and now consists of integrated parameter usage and parameter discovery vocabularies. The BODC Parameter Usage Vocabulary may be used as a tool to label a measurement with information on what it is and how it was obtained. The scope and level of detail for this information differs significantly from term to term.

BUFR Parameters

kwalz — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:51:00 -0800

World Meteorological Organization's Binary Universal Form for the Representation of meteorological data (BUFR) has numerical codes (descriptor) and acronym-style (mnemonic) names, as well as a full description for each parameter (for distributing SeaWinds data products).

CF - Climate and Forecast Standard Names

ngalbraith — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:56:00 -0800

Description:

The Climate and Forecast (CF) standard name table specifies the possible values of the standard_name attribute defined by the CF NetCDF standard. The only valid CF standard names are those which appear in the standard name table.

Standard names are maintained by a committee headed by Alison Pammet at BADC. Additions and other updates are discussed on an email list, and archives are available at the web site.

Ecological Metadata Language (EML)

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

EML is based on prior work done by the Ecological Society of America and associated efforts (Michener et al., 1997, Ecological Applications). EML is implemented as a series of XML document types that can by used in a modular and extensible manner to document ecological data. Each EML module is designed to describe one logical part of the total metadata that should be included with any ecological dataset.

GEMET - GEneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus

mhug — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:19:00 -0800

Reference URL

GEMET thesaurus

GEMET provides a user friendly parameter discovery interface for the European Environment Information and Observation Network (EIONET). It makes use of SKOS, the Simple Knowledge Organisation System and also the metadata registries standard, ISO 11179.

Global Change Master Directory Keywords

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

A hierarchical list of keywords to the variable level (groupings: science, services, projects, instruments, platforms, locations), the GCMD keywords are used in many contexts. The keywords are updated with new submissions through a fairly informal process.

IOOS Parameter Vocabulary V.1.0

swatson — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:23:40 -0700

Description

The Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) is a system of systems that routinely and continuously provides quality controlled data and information on current and future states of the oceans and Great Lakes from the global scale of ocean basins to local scales of coastal ecosystems. It is composed of a global and coastal components.

ISDM Dictionary of Oceanographic Codes

kwalz — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:44:39 -0700

From web site:

"This web site contains the meanings of oceanographic codes as used by participating national and international institutes. It is intended as a reference tool to standardize the use of such codes."

NetCDF Dataset Discovery Attribute Convention

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

Standard attributes describe a NetCDF dataset to facilitate data discovery. The attributes parallel the "digital library metadata" defined in the THREDDS catalog specification.

Attributes are used to add information inside the NetCDF file, while THREDDS catalog metadata adds information external to the NetCDF file. THREDDS tools will use these attributes for extracting metadata from datasets, and exporting to Dublin Core, DIF, ADN, FGDC, ISO 19115 etc. metadata formats.

Ethan Davis at unidata requests comments and suggestions.

OBO: Open Biological Ontologies

graybeal — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:45:00 -0800

From the site: "This site contains ontologies and points to some other efforts within the community. Ideally we see a range of ontologies being designed for biological domains. Some of these will be generic and apply across all organisms and others will be more restricted in scope, for example to specific taxonomic groups."

The site is not simply a compendium of ontologies. It has inclusion criteria which are fairly strict, in order to facilitate interoperation of the multiple ontologies listed.

Observations and Measurements

ngalbraith — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:37:55 -0700

The OpenGIS® Observations and Measurements Encoding Standard (O&M) defines an abstract model and an XML schema encoding for observations and for features involved in sampling when making observations. it provides support for common sampling strategies.

SEACOOS Data Dictionary v2.0

rkl — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:52:00 -0800

The SEACOOS Data Dictionary v2.0 is an extention of the Climate and Forecast (CF) Standard Names Table (v1). This dictionary includes standard names that are coordinate-related, time_date names, atmospheric data, physical oceanographic, chemical oceanographic, electromagnetic radiation, ADCP, sensor-related, platform-related, and navigation not available or modified from CF Standard Names Table (v1) at the time of the project.

SIO/GDC Vocabulary Terms

graybeal — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:14:00 -0800

Controlled Vocabulary utilized in SIOExplorer, from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Geological Data Center (SIO/GDC). Includes listing of terms for various parameters in the GDC scheme.

SWEET Ontologies

swatson — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:48:00 -0800

Ontologies represented in the Ontology Web Language for Earth Realms, Numerics, Phenomena (any transient feature), Physical Properties, Space, Physical Substances, Time, Units, Dataset Properties. The ontologies include some class-subclass relationships between terms as well as other restrictions (e.g., disjoint from).

The ontologies are not very specific. Crosswalks have been created to the Global Change Master Directory keywords and the NetCDF COARDS Climate and Forecast (CF) Conventions.