Interoperability

ad hoc Strategic Committee on Information and Data (SCID)

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

Background, from SCID Homepage

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:

COMPASS

graybeal — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:26:00 -0800

The COMPASS (Coastal Marine Perception Application for Scientific Scholarship) project is investigating the development of semantic tools for assisting those conducting research on coastal and marine environments. They have targeted demonstrating an ontologically-driven knowledge infrastructure for the marine domain.

Concept Web Alliance

kstocks — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:25:59 -0700

The mission of the Concept Web Alliance is to enable an open collaborative environment to jointly address the challenges associated with high volume scholarly and professional data production, storage, interoperability and analyses for knowledge discovery.

Content Standards Field Comparison Matrix file (excel)

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

Click here to get the file

Size 152.5 kB - File type application/vnd.ms-excel

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.

CUAHSI

kwalz — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:36:26 -0700

From CUAHSI website:

CUAHSI, an organization representing more than one-hundred United States universities, receives support from the National Science Foundation to develop infrastructure and services for the advancement of hydrologic science and education in the U.S.

DAML Ontology Library

kwalz — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:13:57 -0700

Description

From DAML web site: "The goal of the DAML effort is to develop a language and tools to facilitate the concept of the Semantic Web." The Ontology Library currently hosts over 280 ontologies.

Type

Vocabulary/Ontology

Stage of Maturity

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

Notes:

Producer

DAML

Maintainer

DAML

Users

Ontology developers.

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

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.

Earth System Curator

ngalbraith — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:32:59 -0700

The Earth System Curator team is prototyping a software environment for assembling, running, and archiving information about climate models. The idea is to make it easier for scientists to perform modeling experiments, and to

EcoMundus

ngalbraith — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:41:00 -0800

Project Introduction

EcoMundus intends to bring about an infrastructure enabling access to international data and information resources.

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.

EuroGOOS 2005

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

"The Conference will focus on operational oceanography which can be defined as the activity of systematic and long-term routine measurements of the oceans including coastal zones and atmosphere, and their rapid interpretation and dissemination.

"The goal of the Conference is to review the progress of operational oceanography during the past three years on both European and global scale, identifying gaps in the current observing and forecasting capacity and plan the next steps towards efficient marine environment predictions." (from web site)

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.

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.

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.