Organization

Aquatic Commons

graybeal — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:39:00 -0800

The Aquatic Commons is a thematic digital repository covering the natural marine, estuarine /brackish and fresh water environments . It includes all aspects of the science, technology, management and conservation of these environments, their organisms and resources, and the economic, sociological and legal aspects.

CODATA - Committee for Data on Science and Technology

graybeal — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:39:00 -0800

CODATA is an international organization established by the International Council on Science (ICSU) in 1966. It seeks to advance the use, and the promise, of information technology in scientific communities all over the world, including in nations that have seen limited scientific benefit from information technology so far. It also represents the international scientific community in international forums and summits.

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.

INSPIRE Program

graybeal — Thu, 12 May 2005 14:49:00 -0700

(From the INSPIRE web site)

INSPIRE is an EU initiative to establish an infrastructure for spatial information in Europe that will help to make spatial or geographical information more accessible and interoperable for a wide range of purposes supporting sustainable development..

Program Contacts

See their Contacts page.

Relevance

Relevance Estimate: Moderate to High

Not marine-specific, but metadata-specific.

International Coastal Atlas Network Workshop 3 and European Environment Agency Conference on Coastal Atlas Development

deepseadawn — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:05:35 -0700

Start: 07/07/2008 - 00:54

End: 07/11/2008 - 00:54

Experts will gather this summer to influence the further development of coastal web atlases for coastal zone management at an international coastal/ocean mapping and informatics workshop and European conference, scheduled back-to-back to take place on 7-10 July 2008 at the European Environment Agency (EEA) in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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.

NODC Institute Codes

kwalz — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:13:00 -0800

The National Oceanographic Data Center uses similar codes for Institutions and Platforms: the 2-character country code (see ICES/IOC country codes) followed by 2-character institute codes that are unique to that country.

NODC World Ocean Database Institute Code

kwalz — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:17:00 -0800

The NODC World Ocean Database assigns unique numerical identifiers to each institute, ranging from 4-1226. There are over 600 institutions in the list.

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.

UNOLS Data Management Best Practices Committee

graybeal — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:36:00 -0800

The UNOLS (University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System) Data Management Best Practices committee was established by the UNOLS Council to advise the council on best practices for the UNOLS-based data systems.

Stephen Miller of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Robert Arko of Lamont-Dougherty Earth Observatory, are the chairs of the UNOLS Data Management Best Management committee. You may contact them for more information or visit the group's web site.