Science Domains

ABCD: Access to Biological Data Collections

kstocks — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:33:00 -0700

ABCD is a metadata standard for the exchange of information about biological collections (i.e. museum specimens) and observations (i.e. primary biodiversity data). It is maintained and endorsed by Biological Information Standards, formerly known as the Taxonomic Databases Working Group, and is used by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

Agency Portals

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

AGU Index Terms

rkl — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:21:00 -0800

Thesaurus for indexing AGU journal articles and meeting abstracts, covering Earth and Space sciences, including in-depth coverage of physical, chemical, and biological oceanography, marine geology and geophysics, hydrology, atmospheric sciences, biogeosciences, and global change.

The index terms cover a wide range of earth science domains as can be seen from the list of Top-Level Categories:

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."

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.