Tools

Apollo

kwalz — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:47:00 -0800

ArcView Metadata Collector

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:38:35 -0800

For those still working in ArcView 3.x ... ArcView Metadata Collector is an easy-to-use application that helps the ArcView 3.x user create Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)–compliant metadata. The tool can create metadata for any data type supported by ArcView, including ARC/INFO coverages, ArcView shapefiles, as well as any supported image formats. This award winning tool is free.

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

Bathymetry Attributed Grid (BAG)

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

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CIRCO Taxonomy Administrator

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

Using an ontology-based CIRCA technology, the Taxonomy Administrator in Auto-Categorizer 1.1 maps concepts in a simple, direct manner without requiring the development of extensive training sets to define each of the categories. Users of the technology can directly map their custom terminologies to its two gigabyte ontology, a continuously maintained and updated knowledge base containing millions of concepts and relationship links through the Auto-Categorizer tool.

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.

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CoGITaNT

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

Conceptual graph (CG) modeling with rules; nested typed graphs; projections.

CoGITaNT is a C++ library.

DBFMeta

swatson — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:20:00 -0800

DBFmeta is a software tool developed by USGS. It is designed to facilitate the documentation of data contained in DBF files. These data files are increasingly common because they are used to store attributes of geographic features in shapefiles used and produced by ESRI products. DBFmeta comes with mp, a parser for formal metadata, and is most effectively used with Tkme, an editor for formal metadata.

DOGMAModeler

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

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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.

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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.

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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.
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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.
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International Polar Year Data and Information Service (IPYDIS)

graybeal — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:26:00 -0700

The International Polar Year Data and Information Service (IPYDIS) is a global partnership of data centers, archives, and networks working to ensure proper stewardship of IPY and related data. The International Polar Year is a massive international scientific programme focused on the Arctic and the Antarctic from March 2007 to March 2009.
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JENA JAVA API toolkit from HP Research Labs

luisBer — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:54:00 -0800

Jena
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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.

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Marine Visioning Tool - An Ontology of Sorts

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:38:49 -0800

The Marine Visioning Tool, with a glossary and controlled vocabulary of sorts, has been developed so that the user may achieve a greater understanding of the complex marine landscape and the factors that shape it.
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MMI Ontology Registry and Repository

carueda — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:35:27 -0800

The MMI Ontology Registry and Repository is a Web-based application where ontology providers and users can collaborate to create, host, annotate, share, and use ontologies of relevance to the marine science community.

This set of services is a key component of the Semantic Framework being developed by the Marine Metadata Interoperability Project (MMI).

For more information, please visit: http://marinemetadata.org/semanticframework
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NERC DataGrid Vocabulary Server

mhug — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 06:59:00 -0800

The NDG Vocabulary Server provides access to lists of standardised terms that cover a broad spectrum of disciplines of relevance to the oceanographic and wider community. This includes vocabularies for data mark-up, data categorisation, intrumentation types, named sea areas and many more. The service has a growing community of users including the SeaDataNet project (comprising members from 47 European and North African groups), the British Antarctic Survey and the NERC DataGrid project (with members from a number of UK oceanographic and atmospheric institutions).
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OGC Publisher Tool

jbosch — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:20:00 -0800

The OGC Publisher utility is an easy to install, easy to use tool that simplifies the process of publishing oceanographic data to key OGC standards. The goal is to lower the barriers to participation in the IOOS Interoperability Demo and to facilitate greater interoperability in general. The first phase of development is now complete and two organizations are participating in the first round of testing.

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OID Repository

graybeal — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:18:16 -0700

A site sponsored by France Telecom that offers information about OID (object identifier) registration services, and has links to some additional information.

Considerable references about OID standards may be found at this site.
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