Systems

ad hoc Strategic Committee on Information and Data (SCID)

carynn — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:30:34 -0700

Background, from SCID Homepage

BioGeomancer

kwalz — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:25:02 -0700

From website:

"The BioGeomancer Project is a worldwide collaboration of natural history and geospatial data experts. The primary goal of the project is to maximize the quality and quantity of biodiversity data that can be mapped in support of scientific research, planning, conservation, and management. The project promotes discussion, manages geospatial data and data standards, and develops software tools in support of this mission."

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

COBrA

kwalz — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:50:00 -0800

COBrA allows the user to manually create links between terms in two ontologies. For example, links between tissues in an anatomy and the cell types of the tissues can be recorded and stored: these links are referred to as mappings.

Has the following features:

Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service

graybeal — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:47:00 -0700

CADIS - The Cooperative Arctic Data and Information Service - supports the Arctic Observing Network (AON). It will be a portal for data discovery, and provide near-real-time data delivery, a repository for data storage, and tools to manipulate data.

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.

EPIC (NOAA, PMEL) Units

graybeal — Thu, 18 May 2006 10:01:00 -0700

The EPIC program developed a key file describing all its variables using a numeric code. This code is then encoded into the netCDF file, and includes various attributes for each parameter, including that parameter's units. Thus, the second column of the EPIC key file contains all the units used in the program.

More a working example than an authoritative list of units, but useful to give an idea of the needs of operational programs.

Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

luisBer — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:51:00 -0800

Project Introduction

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.

GEO

ngalbraith — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:33:56 -0700

The Group on Earth Observations is coordinating efforts to build a Global Earth Observation System of Systems, or GEOSS.

GEO was launched in response to calls for action by the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development and by the G8 (Group of Eight) leading industrialized countries. These high-level meetings recognized that international collaboration is essential for exploiting the growing potential of Earth observations to support decision making in an increasingly complex and environmentally stressed world.

Geospatial One-Stop

dzimble — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:49:00 -0700

The Geospatial One-Stop Initiative is an intergovernmental project managed by the Department of the Interior in support of the President's Initiative for E-government. Geospatial One-Stop builds upon its partnership with the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) to improve the ability of the public and government to use geospatial information to support the business of government and facilitate decision-making.

Hydrology Units Ontology

graybeal — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:35:00 -0800

These are units used in a hydrologic ontology developed by CUAHSI. They have been encoded (in OWL) using the encoded using the ISO 19103 standard.

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

Integrated Ocean Observing Systems (IOOS)

luisBer — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:27:00 -0800

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.

International Marine Data and Information Systems Conference 2005

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

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.

Marine Environmental Data Information Catalogue

graybeal — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:50:00 -0800

(From the web site) MEDI is an inventory of information about marine related datasets and is used within the framework of the IOC's International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) system. The MEDI system has been operational within the IODE community since 1979, initially as IOC Manuals and Guides.

The MEDI directory has been developed to provide a reference point for locating marine and coastal datasets and will be populated with metadata descriptions of marine datasets from IOC member states.

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.

NGDC Marine & Geological Samples Database

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

January 2002 Parameters & Information. Index to Marine and Lacustrine Geological Samples database at the National Geophysical Data Center. This includes basic sample collection, storage, lithology, and age data for the sample holdings of the major US oceanographic institutions and government agencies.

Ocean Observatories Initiative

luisBer — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:45:00 -0800

The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) is an NSF-funded initiative to bring transformative technologies and approaches to ocean science. It has 3 components, Global, Regional and Coastal, and Cyberinfrastructure. Its research-focused observatories will be networked and will contribute to the Integrated Ocean Observing System.