Conventions

Content Standards Field Comparison Matrix file (excel)

graybeal — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:50:00 -0700

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Department of Defense Discovery Metadata Specification Home Page

carueda — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:55:07 -0700

(from the website)

DMAC Implementation Plan

graybeal — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:31:00 -0700

The DMAC Implementation Plan contains an integrated architecture for data management and communications in a national (U.S.), sustained ocean observing system. It is detailed, comprehensive, and mature, having been through many review cycles by many reviewers.

There is a lot of discussion of metadata in the DMAC Implementation Plan.

Electronic Geophysical Year

graybeal — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:38:00 -0800

The Electronic Geophysical Year is a voluntary organization and collaboration intended to achieve a major step forward in geoscience capability, knowledge, and usage throughout the world for the benefit of humanity by accelerating the adoption of modern and visionary practices for managing and sharing data and information.

eGY will have many activities in 2007-2008 to promote these activities.

GALEON

luisBer — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:25:00 -0800

GALEON (Gateway or Geo-interface for Air Land Earth Ocean NetCDF) is Unidata's OGC Interoperability Experiment.

The project will be both a formal OGC Interoperability Experiment related to the Web Coverage Service (WCS) interface specifications, and a set of software implementation experiments which, it is hoped, will go beyond the OGC membership into the world of OPeNDAP, LAS, THREDDS, NetCDF, etc.

GEOSS Standards and Interoperability Forum (SIF)

graybeal — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:26:00 -0800

GEOSS' Standards Interoperability Forum (SIF) is a committee of people who will support the interoperability requirements of GEOSS. per the GEOSS Standards Committee web site, it is intended "to facilitate the interchange of information, and make recommendations for standards and interoperability arrangements in GEOSS".

GO-ESSP

ngalbraith — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:43:00 -0800

The Global Organization for Earth System Science Portal (GO-ESSP) is a collaboration designed to develop a new generation of software infrastructure that will provide distributed access to observed and simulated data from the climate and weather communities.

GSC - Genomic Standards Consortium

kstocks — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:43:29 -0700

The Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) is an open-membership organization with the goal of increasing the standardization of metadata for genomic data. They further this goal through the development and implementation of metadata standards, methods to capture and exchange genomic metadata, and approaches to harmonize metadata collection across the genomics community. It undertakes these activities through meetings and working groups. GSC was founded in 2005.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)

kwalz — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:43:00 -0800

International Hydrographic Organization (IHO)

kwalz — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:42:00 -0800

The International Hydrographic Organization is an intergovernmental organization established in 1921 to promote the safety of marine navigation and the protection of the marine environment. Currently IHO has 74 maritime nations participating as members.

Their objectives (listed on the IHO web site) are to bring about:

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

kwalz — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:53:00 -0800

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from 157 national standards organizations from around the world. Founded in 1947, this non-governmental organization publishes world-wide industrial and commercial standards and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

Many ISO standards are represented on the MMI site, including:

International Polar Year (IPY)

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:01:31 -0800

The International Polar Year is a large scientific programme focused on the Arctic and the Antarctic from March 2007 to March 2009. It is a massive international collaboration.

IOOS DMAC Metadata Expert Team

graybeal — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:32:00 -0800

The IOOS DMAC Steering Committee has formed a number of expert teams to provide feedback and guidance to the Steering Committee.

The Metadata Expert Team consists of roughly 15 people from many organizations and areas of expertise around the country. The team began meeting in telecons at least monthly in 2006, to establish its goals and organize the metadata-related activities needed for IOOS.

Marine Metadata Interoperability (MMI) Project

graybeal — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:29:00 -0800

The Marine Metadata Interoperability project provides many different services to increase marine data interoperability. It is not a standards-setting or standards-endorsing body, but is a community-based project that provides as much information about these standards as possible.

MarineXML Testbed

rkl — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:06:00 -0800

The MarineXML Testbed, the major deliverable of the EU MarineXML Project, demonstrated data interoperability through 'use' metadata (CSML developed by NERC DataGrid) by displaying a wide range of disparate oceanographic data types through the Seven Cs SeeMyDEnc viewer.

NASA Standards Process Group

graybeal — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:48:00 -0800

Description

NASA's Earth Sciences Data Systems Standards Process Group regularly reviews standards and techical developments of interest to the earth science data management community. They work with many of the same standards as the marine metadata community, and must follow many of the same technical developments.

Meetings address topics such as:

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

kwalz — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:26:00 -0800

U.S. Commerce Department’s NIST mission is to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life. They provide calibrations, standard reference materials, access to NIST standard databases, and weights and measures standards.

NERC DataGrid

awoolf — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:25:00 -0800

NERC DataGrid (NDG) is a UK-based "e-Science" project developing Grid middleware and metadata systems to support uniform discovery and access to a range of environmental data across the UK.

NetCDF Classic and 64-bit Offset File Formats Standard

kwalz — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:33:15 -0700

The NetCDF Classic and 64-bit Offset File Formats Standard has been formally recognized by the NASA Earth Standards Data Systems Working Groups (ESDSWG), thereby providing a well documented, widely accepted reference for the netCDF format.

OGC Creating URN Resolver

graybeal — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:50:00 -0800

The techical team at OGC is creating a system to resolve URNs (Uniform Resource Names), and would like your input.

The Open Geospatial Consortium has begun implementing a prototype service that relates internet uniform resource names, or URNs, to their corresponding web sites, or to other web resources. This service, called a URN resolver, is the first of its type for the environmental community. They would like feedback from the community on this service.