Project/Initiative

BioGeomancer

kwalz — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:25:02 -0700

From website:

"The BioGeomancer Project is a worldwide collaboration of natural history and geospatial data experts. The primary goal of the project is to maximize the quality and quantity of biodiversity data that can be mapped in support of scientific research, planning, conservation, and management. The project promotes discussion, manages geospatial data and data standards, and develops software tools in support of this mission."

BODC Parameter Ontology Project

mhug — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:31:00 -0800

The BODC Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (PDV) is a controlled list of over 300 terms for identifying categories of oceanographic metadata. This is currently mapped to the 18,000+ term BODC Parameter Usage Vocabulary, an internationally renowned dictionary for describing data values.

CalCOFI Program

kwalz — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:48:00 -0800

For over 50 years, the CalCOFI study has annually visited 75 stations in Southern California waters.

CIMA Ontology

graybeal — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:17:00 -0800

CIMA is aimed at "Grid enabling" instruments as real-time data sources to improve accessibility of instruments and to facilitate their integration into the Grid. They are developing semantic metadata (in OWL/RDF) using a web-based tool, so that the semantic metadata can be used to drive the WSDL/SOAP middleware.

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.

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.

GCMD Project Keywords

kwalz — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:24:00 -0800

Global Change Master Directory Project Keywords contain both short names and long names for projects. Some projects are missing long names. The short name is the code, 3 to 35-letter acronym, for the project name. Over 1200 project names in the list (as of late 2007).

Hydroseek

kwalz — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:04:00 -0800

ITSC Ontologies

kwalz — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:54:00 -0800

The Information Technology and Systems Center (ITSC), at University of Alabama in Huntsville, is building ontologies for specialized domains and software tools that use a number of ontologies. The ITSC is a partner in the NSF information technology research project LEAD (Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery). They created an ontology that provides semantic metadata for data sets and serves as an educational service, knowledge resource and community reference.

Marine Metadata Interoperability (MMI) Project

graybeal — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:29:00 -0800

The Marine Metadata Interoperability project provides many different services to increase marine data interoperability. It is not a standards-setting or standards-endorsing body, but is a community-based project that provides as much information about these standards as possible.

MMI Device Ontology: A Community Development Project

graybeal — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:12:00 -0800

Description

MMI has begun development of an ontology aimed at classifying sensor/device types, and possibly extending into more detailed sensor terminology. This project is being developed by interested members of the marine science and data community. See the project web site for details.

MODIS Units

graybeal — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:11:00 -0700

These pages have data items for NASA's MODIS satellite, including the units in which each data item is stored. More than a comprehensive list, this is an example.

Multilingual Fisheries Thesaurus Project

luisBer — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:17:00 -0800

In December 2001, the draft work plan for the project was agreed and a Letter of Agreement was drawn up between FAO/Fisheries Department and SIFAR which detailed the resource requirements; work plan; time lines; and terms of reference necessary in order to take the project forward.
read more

National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII)

carynn — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:50:59 -0800

From the NBII website:

NODC Project Codes

kwalz — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:19:00 -0800

The National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) assigns unique numerical codes from 1-999 (9999 is for unknown) to each project name. When available, project names and acronyms are included in the list. However, some project names do not have acronyms, and a number of project acronyms do not have names. The list has over 400 projects.

POGO Ocean Cruises

graybeal — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:21:00 -0800

Project Introduction

This is a website for Research Vessels larger than 60 meters that are engaged in ocean research. It is trying to collect relevant metadata about these vessels, and their operations, in one place. Ship operators and laboratories are invited to contribute. The co-ordinators of this website initiative are actively compiling lists of qualifying vessels and contributions from operators for regular input and maintenance of the databases.

QARTOD II wave and current vocabularies

swatson — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:34:00 -0800

SEEK Initiative

kwalz — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:14:00 -0800

SEEK aims to help ecologists "efficiently capture, organize and search for data and analytical processes from their desk-top in a user friendly interface".

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.

Standard Naming Exercise: Introduction

graybeal — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:43:00 -0800

Background The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, or MBARI, hosts a wide range of oceanographic science activities. With multiple platforms, most with many instruments, and a variety of ocean science applications, MBARI ends up with oceanographic data from different projects.

Project/Initiative

BioGeomancer

BODC Parameter Ontology Project

CalCOFI Program

CIMA Ontology

COMPASS

EcoMundus

Project Introduction

GCMD Project Keywords

Hydroseek

ITSC Ontologies

Marine Metadata Interoperability (MMI) Project

MMI Device Ontology: A Community Development Project

MODIS Units

Multilingual Fisheries Thesaurus Project

In December 2001, the draft work plan for the project was agreed and a Letter of Agreement was drawn up between FAO/Fisheries Department and SIFAR which detailed the resource requirements; work plan; time lines; and terms of reference necessary in order to take the project forward.read more

National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII)

NODC Project Codes

POGO Ocean Cruises

Project Introduction

QARTOD II wave and current vocabularies

SEEK Initiative

Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)

Standard Naming Exercise: Introduction

In December 2001, the draft work plan for the project was agreed and a Letter of Agreement was drawn up between FAO/Fisheries Department and SIFAR which detailed the resource requirements; work plan; time lines; and terms of reference necessary in order to take the project forward.
read more