Science Domains

Agency Portals

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

Data Interoperability -- Challenges and Technologies

graybeal — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:03:00 -0700

Challenges and Technologies

"From Local to Global." This is a symposium geared toward discussing interoperability issues related to global information storage and exchange in the global science community.

Relevance

Relevance Estimate: Very High

DOLCE ROCKS: Integrating Foundational and Geoscience Ontologies

kwalz — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:54:00 -0800

From the abstract: "This work investigates the alignment of DOLCE foundational ontology with concepts from two geoscience knowledge representations, GeoSciML and SWEET. The geoscience concepts are partially mapped to each other and to those in the foundational ontology, via the subclass and other relations, resulting in an integrated OWL-based ontology called DOLCE ROCKS."

Ecological Concepts Ontology

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

From SPIRE web site: "A model of ecology viewed as the study of interactions between biotic entities and their environment". Ontology from the Rocky Mountain Biological Lab.

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

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.

GCMD Science Keywords

kwalz — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:27:00 -0800

The GCMD list of Science Keywords contains 1417 terms ordered in a 5-tier hierarchy. The list does not have codes for terms.

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.

MMI Workshop Sensors Ontology

graybeal — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:56:00 -0700

This outline was developed by participants in the MMI Advancing Domain Vocabularies workshop in 2005. It is a top-level outline of sensor types, organized by measurement technique. Although it never moved beyond the preliminary stage, it is moderately comprehensive.

MODIS Units

graybeal — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:11:00 -0700

These pages have data items for NASA's MODIS satellite, including the units in which each data item is stored. More than a comprehensive list, this is an example.