Content Standard

"Metadata for Ocean Scientists" Tutorial at Ocean Sciences 2008

swatson — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:54:00 -0800

Event Description

MMI proposes to hold free metadata tutorials that are divided into 30-minute modules at the Ocean Sciences 2008 meeting. The modules will be: Introduction to Metadata; Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies, Taxonomies and Ontologies; Submitting Metadata to a Clearinghouse; and Metadata Best Practices. Two modules will be held during each lunch break on Tuesday and Wednesday. All four modules will be provided on Thursday evening.

Workshops Team

DC-2007

carynn — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:09:00 -0800

Start: 08/27/2007 - 08:00

End: 08/31/2007 - 17:00

Call for Papers published, deadline for submissions 2 April 2007

Ecological Metadata Language (EML)

allenmacklin — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:03:00 -0800

EML is based on prior work done by the Ecological Society of America and associated efforts (Michener et al., 1997, Ecological Applications). EML is implemented as a series of XML document types that can by used in a modular and extensible manner to document ecological data. Each EML module is designed to describe one logical part of the total metadata that should be included with any ecological dataset.

EU MarineXML Standards Report

rkl — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:45:00 -0800

FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata

swatson — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:08:00 -0800

Description

CSDGM is applicable to any geospatial data. Its goal is to define the information required by a prospective user to determine the availability of a set of geospatial data, the fitness the set of geospatial data for an intended use, and the means of accessing the set of geospatial data, and to enable successful transfer. It was developed in response to Presidential Executive Order 12906, "Coordinating Geographic Data Acquisition and Access: The National Spatial Data Infrastructure".

Type

Content Standard

IEEE 1451

graybeal — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:03:00 -0800

There is no strong center of the IEEE 1451 web presence, but a google search on "IEEE 1451" finds many interesting and useful references.

IEEE 1451 is a comprehensive, extremely detailed standard for describing sensors and actuators (together, "transducers"). From the web site:

Introduction to the CenSeam Image Metadata Project

graybeal — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:09:00 -0800

Image Metadata Specification for CenSeam

ISO 8601 (Dates and Times)

luisBer — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:03:00 -0800

See the following references about this (rather comprehensive) standard:

ISO Technical Committee 211 on Geographic information and Geomatics

awoolf — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:03:00 -0800

Description

The Technical Committee 211 of ISO aims to establish a structured set of standards for information concerning objects or phenomena that are directly or indirectly associated with a location relative to the Earth.

ISO Units Standards

graybeal — Thu, 18 May 2006 09:57:00 -0700

ISO has published several standards on quantities and units, most notably ISO 31 ("Quantities and Units"), which has 14 parts, and ISO 1000, which is the ISO representation of the SI units system.

A very formal and stable standard.

See UCUM units references for a possibly useful perspective on this standard.

ISO/IEC 11179 - A standard for metadata registries

mhug — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:03:00 -0800

ISO/IEC 11179 promotes the following:

read more

Marine Community Profile of ISO 19115

glr — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:03:00 -0800

Marine XML

kwalz — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:40:00 -0800

The Marine XML (eXstensible Markup Language) structure has been developed to encapsulate marine data. It provides an efficient means to store, transfer and display marine data.

MGD77: Marine Geophysical Data Exchange Format

graybeal — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:00:00 -0800

MGD77 is an exchange format for marine geophysical data (bathymetry, magnetics, and gravity). It is intended to be used for the transmission of data to and from a data center and may be useful for the exchange of data to and from a data center and may be useful for the exchange of data between marine institutions.

OBIS Schema

kstocks — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:03:00 -0800

The OBIS schema is the content standard used by OBIS, the Ocean Biogeographic Information System. It represents an extension of the Darwin Core Version 2. It is designed for marine biodiversity data, specifically to record the capture or observation of a particular species or other taxonomic group at a particular location. It can also be applied to museum specimen data.

OceanSITES NetCDF Convention

swatson — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:52:00 -0800

OceanSITES is a project to assimilate measurements from long-term ocean reference stations measuring dozens of variables and monitoring the full depth of the ocean from air-sea interactions down to 5,000 meters. The OceanSITES data managment team has developed specific guidance for the implementation of netCDF conventions.

Type

Content Standard

Producer

The OceanSITES project.

Open Archives Initiative

ngalbraith — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:13:23 -0700

The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. OAI has its roots in the open access and institutional repository movements.

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

awoolf — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:03:00 -0800

Description
From the OGC website:
Vision: A world in which everyone benefits from geographic information and services made available across any network, application, or platform.
Mission:Our core mission is to deliver spatial interface specifications that are openly available for global use.

Rocket City Geospatial Conference

carynn — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:28:00 -0800

Start: 10/15/2007 - 09:00

End: 10/17/2007 - 17:00

The Rocket City Geospatial Conference will present a wide range of key topics of local and regional interest. The following list is presented as a guideline for proposed topics of discussion:

SEACOOS NetCDF Standard

rkl — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:03:00 -0800

The Southeast Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing system have defined standardised content and conventions for encoding oceanographic data in NetCDF based upon the CF conventions developed by the atmospheric modelling community.

The content standard covers data conforming to a range of 'data models'. These specify the shape of the data and their related spatio-temporal framework - 'feature types' in the terminology of ISO TC211/OGC standards. The following feature types are supported:

Content Standard

"Metadata for Ocean Scientists" Tutorial at Ocean Sciences 2008

Event Description

DC-2007

Ecological Metadata Language (EML)

EU MarineXML Standards Report

FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Description

Type

IEEE 1451

Introduction to the CenSeam Image Metadata Project

ISO 8601 (Dates and Times)

ISO Technical Committee 211 on Geographic information and Geomatics

ISO Units Standards

ISO/IEC 11179 - A standard for metadata registries

ISO/IEC 11179 promotes the following: read more

Marine Community Profile of ISO 19115

Marine XML

MGD77: Marine Geophysical Data Exchange Format

OBIS Schema

OceanSITES NetCDF Convention

Type

Producer

Open Archives Initiative

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

Rocket City Geospatial Conference

SEACOOS NetCDF Standard

ISO/IEC 11179 promotes the following:

read more