Community Practices Body

About MMI

ngalbraith — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:03:58 -0700

Mission

To promote the exchange, integration and use of marine data through enhanced data publishing, discovery, documentation and accessibility.

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.

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.

Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)

carynn — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:28:25 -0700

From "SKOS Primer"

SKOS — Simple Knowledge Organisation System — provides a model for expressing the basic structure and content of concept schemes such as thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading lists, taxonomies, folksonomies, and other types of controlled vocabulary. As an application of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) SKOS allows concepts to be documented, linked and merged with other data, while still being composed, integrated and published on the World Wide Web.