Data Format Specification

Bathymetry Attributed Grid (BAG)

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

References:

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.

EXIF: Exchangeable Image FIle Format

graybeal — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:20:00 -0800

This standard was developed by JEIDA, the Japan ELectronics and Information Technology Industries Association, for documenting images.

Functional Genomics Experiment (FuGE)

agale — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:40:18 -0700

Description

Functional Genomics Experiment (FuGE) - the Functional Genomics Experiment [Object Model / Markup-Language] (FuGE-OM, FuGE-ML) has been created to facilitate the development of data standards for functional genomics experiments. FuGE is a model of the shared components in different functional genomics domains. FuGE facilitates the development of data standards in functional genomics in two ways:

Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC)

agale — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:37:46 -0700

Description

The Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC) is an open-membership working body which formed in September 2005. The goal of this international community is to promote mechanisms that standardize the description of genomes and the exchange and integration of genomic data.

URLs:

http://gensc.org/gc_wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Geography Markup Language GML

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

Global Information Locator Service (GILS)

luisBer — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:02:00 -0800

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:

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/IEC 11179 - A standard for metadata registries

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

ISO/IEC 11179 promotes the following:

read more

Keyhole Markup Language: KML

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

Keyhole Markup Language, or KML, is a simple but powerful file format for displaying geographic data in an earth browser, such as Google Earth or Google Maps. Increasingly, people are starting to use it in their own applications to represent geographic data.

Marine Community Profile of ISO 19115

glr — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:03:00 -0800

Microarray and Gene Expression Data Society (MGED)

agale — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:35:27 -0700

Description

The Microarray and Gene Expression Data(MGED)Society is an international organization of biologists, computer scientists, and data analysts that aims to facilitate the sharing of data generated using the microarray and other functional genomics technologies for a variety of applications including expression profiling. The scope of MGED includes data generated using any technology when applied to genome-scale studies of gene expression, binding, modification and other related applications.

NASA Ames Format for Data Exchange

graybeal — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:20:00 -0800

This standard was developed at NASA Ames Research Center during the Stratosphere Troposphere Exchange Project (STEP), when uniform rules to record data were needed to facilitate the data exchange between the participants and allow shared use of a minimised amount of software to analyse and display different datasets. It emphasizes portability, readibility by humans, and self-description of the data.

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.

Q2O

ngalbraith — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:13:57 -0700

As the scientific community prepares to participate in the development of ocean observing systems and systems of systems, data managers are struggling with the need to provide relevant and unambiguous information to enable selective evaluation of data quality in real time.

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:

SensorML

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

A mature and active specification. The model is presented in several different forms (graphical, XML schema), with lots of documentation, and so should be useful to most developers.

The following description was taken from the web site on 2004.11.20.

Purpose: SensorML provides the models and XML schema encoding for defining the geometric, dynamic, and observational characteristics of a sensor. The purpose of SensorML is:

TransducerML

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

TML is a digital data structure that permits streaming and is used to exchange data between a sensor and a processor.
TML is an XML based specification that describes how to capture and time tag sensor data. It also includes a complete description of the data. Since TML is self-contained, a TML enabled processor is able to process data from any sensor without any additional information.

Data Format Specification

Bathymetry Attributed Grid (BAG)

Ecological Metadata Language (EML)

EXIF: Exchangeable Image FIle Format

Functional Genomics Experiment (FuGE)

Description

Genomic Standards Consortium (GSC)

Description

Geography Markup Language GML

Global Information Locator Service (GILS)

IEEE 1451

ISO 8601 (Dates and Times)

ISO Technical Committee 211 on Geographic information and Geomatics

ISO/IEC 11179 - A standard for metadata registries

ISO/IEC 11179 promotes the following: read more

Keyhole Markup Language: KML

Marine Community Profile of ISO 19115

Microarray and Gene Expression Data Society (MGED)

Description

NASA Ames Format for Data Exchange

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)

Q2O

SEACOOS NetCDF Standard

SensorML

TransducerML

ISO/IEC 11179 promotes the following:

read more