Resource Discovery

A Universal Ontology for Sensor Networks Data

graybeal — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:31:29 -0700

A two layer prototype ontology that utilizes the IEEE Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO) as a root definition of general concepts and associations and two subontologies: the sensor data sub-ontology and the sensor hierarchy sub-ontology.

Ontology includes a Sensor Hierarchy Ontology that includes many of the same concepts as the MMI Device Ontology facets.

The ontology itself is not yet referenced here.

Advancing ecological research with Ontologies (a review paper)

kstocks — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:00:15 -0700

Joshua S. Madin, Shawn Bowers, Mark P. Schildhauer and Matthew B. Jones. 2008. Advancing ecological research with ontologies. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23(3): 159-168.

Agency Portals

arko — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:41:00 -0800

Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA)

luisBer — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:44:00 -0800

ASFA is an abstracting and indexing service covering the world's literature on the science, technology, management, and conservation of marine, brackish water, and freshwater resources and environments, including their socio-economic and legal aspects.

As part of their service, ASFA has developed an extensive thesaurus of keywords. The ASFA thesaurus covers a wide area of the biological oceanographic domain. The glossary is more restricted in scope.

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).

Coastal GeoTools 2005

deepseadawn — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:28:00 -0700

Coastal GeoTools 2005 is a conference to "promote sharing of standards and coastal data through the National Spatial Data Infrastructure". Topics include metadata, ocean observing systems, and data sharing.

Relevance

Relevance Estimate: Very High

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.

Global Information Locator Service (GILS)

luisBer — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:02:00 -0800

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

International Marine Data and Information Systems Conference 2005

mhug — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 09:42:00 -0800

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.

Spatial Metadata Management System (SMMS)

deepseadawn — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:16:00 -0700

SMMS is the Spatial Metadata Management System. SMMS provides users the power of creating, editing, and querying the metadata which describes spatial data, with the added advantage of being able to manage common metadata content via a relational database. It also allows a map of the spatial data to be viewed, and incorporated into online metadata.

Recommended by D. Wright and the Oregon Coastal Atlas team, particularly when dealing with FGDC metadata.

SSDS Sensor Types

graybeal — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:07:00 -0800

The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute has been developing a sophisticated data system for many of its research platforms for some time. The data system has always described its data sources and platforms fairly thoroughly, and used a device type categorization to group the devices.

The CERA Data Model

ngalbraith — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:45:46 -0700

Developed by the World Data Center for Climate (WDCC), the Climate and Environmental Retrieving and Archiving (CERA) system consists of a core part (42 RDBMS tables, grouped as 12 Blocks) and various CERA Modules (table groups).