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"Data Resources for the Geosciences"

carynn — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:13:00 -0800

See http://www.nsf-margins.org/AGU2007/ for more information

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"Envisioning Our Coastal Future" - Invitation to Participate

carynn — Wed, 30 May 2007 11:27:00 -0700

During the meeting, NOAA and CSO will present our joint initiative, Envisioning the Future of Coastal Management, followed by facilitated comment sessions. We want to hear your success stories, best management practices, and innovative solutions for how coastal management can be better

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7th ICHE Proceedings Online

carynn — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:06:00 -0700

The proceedings of the 7th ICHE have been submitted and published in the DSpace Digital Library! To view the publications, visit http://idea.library.drexel.edu/handle/1860/732. You can search by author, title, and keywords.

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Announcing: MMI Ontology Registry prototype

graybeal — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:06:56 -0700

New Ontology Registry under Development

MMI and SURA (Southeastern Universities Research Association) announce the development of a prototype Ontology Registry and Repository for Marine and Environmental Science ontologies.

The registry, which will store ontologies, ontology mappings, and metadata associated with those artifacts, is intended to be available for general scientific use by the end of 2008.

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Be a part of the e-Science action

carynn — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:31:39 -0800

IEEE is offering a unique opportunity to participate in this year's e-Science conference, taking place December 7–11, 2008 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Members of the e-Science community are invited to participate in live-webcasts, dynamic chat sessions, conference blogs—even Twitter.

A number of oceans-related and metadata-related sessions will be presented. Sessions with a dynamic web presence include the following:

Streaming Data Exploration and Visualization through Science Workflows and Provenance
International Grid Interoperability and Interoperation Workshop 2008 (IGIIW 2008)
Semantic-Driven Data Intensive Flows in the Clouds
Semantics - the Silver Lining of Cloud Computing
Adding Value to Data - Digital Repositories in the e-Science World
Complete schedule available online

Big Data Translates into Big Opportunities... and Big Responsibilities

carynn — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:47:54 -0700

In recognition of the 10th anniversary of Google, Nature Magazine presents a look at big data. Many of the articles point to the inundation of data, and demonstrate the need for tools like the semantic web. Just as Google transformed the way we search web content, the semantic web will present innovative ways to store, find, and use scientific data. The semantic web, while virtually invisible, facilitates organization of data in a machine-readable fashion. This organization enables diverse datasets to be connected, using metadata.

BioPortal 2.0 Released!

carynn — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:34:47 -0700

BioPortal allows users to browse, upload, download, search, comment on, and create mappings for ontologies.

This newly updated portal allows users to find ontologies based on a variety of criterion, including subject, concept, class name, and attribute. Users can also explore/download ontologies and mappings.

New features in BioPortal 2.0 include:

Building Community and Governance at Fall AGU

luisBer — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:59:00 -0700

AGU FAll Meeting 2007

Special session focusing on Building Community and Governance within Earth and Space Science Content Models (IN12)

Description from AGU Conference Website:
This topical session is designed to provide a forum for any investigator working on data models and structures, schemas, and ontologies across all earth and space science domains to try better coordinate and rationalize these efforts.

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CF Point Observations Working Group

graybeal — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:34:00 -0700

The netCDF Climate and Forcast (CF) conventions do not fully address the needs of users collecting point observation data. A group of people has formed to generate a proposal for a point observations data convention, to present to the CF committee.

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Citations - They're Not Just for Publications Anymore

carynn — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:37:12 -0700

By definition, metadata exists to describe data or information. Descriptive metadata enables appropriate use, and facilitates re-use of data. Once data has been discovered and used, it should be cited. Publications frequently reference data sets, but the question remains - how should authors cite data?

As part of its Data Policy, the International Polar Year (IPY) indicates

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Community Device Ontology Team Startup

luisBer — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:58:00 -0700

The Monterey Accelerated Research System illustrates the need for semantic interoperability in sensor systems.

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Creating a Standards-Based Interoperable Framework for Ocean Data (the video!)

carynn — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:53:00 -0800

The newly developed video demonstration of the OOSTethys architecture premiered at the 2007 Fall Meeting of the AGU. It will be folded in to other eGY demonstrations throughout 2008.

Download the video (21MB)!

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Describing Ocean Data Management Strategies

kwalz — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:03:21 -0800

In their paper published last month in Deep-Sea Research II, Baker and Chandler (2008) describe twelve strategies for managing complex ocean data systems.

Enabling Interoperability — Term by Term

carynn — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:58:37 -0700

As marine science research collaborations increase, and the marine metadata community grows, more metadata managers are developing controlled vocabularies and using them in well-designed systems. However, when a colleague down the hall, up the road, in another state or another country describes similar data, they use a completely different set of terminology. So, how do two systems that use completely different terminology interoperate?

Once lower-level technical barriers like networking and transport protocols are overcome, the key to interoperability is semantic interoperability. And a major contributor to semantic interoperability will be vocabulary mappings. By developing vocabulary mappings—sets of rules that bridge between vocabularies—systems have the resources to interoperate based on a shared terminology.

Workshop Templates

ESIP Federation Elects MMI as One of Four New Members

carynn — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:40:10 -0700

The Marine Metadata Interoperability Initiative is now a full member of the Federation for Earth Science Information Partners.

From the Press Release

Great Device Ontology Kickoff

luisBer — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 19:11:00 -0700

MMI hosted a successful kickoff telecon to begin developing device ontologies (ontologies are the hierarchical vocabularies that will be needed for Open Geospatial Consortium standards).

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IIS is Looking for Panelists and Reviewers

carynn — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:58:59 -0700

The Information & Intelligent Systems (IIS) research community is very fortunate this year, as the US National Science Foundation and the Computer & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) Directorate have several IIS-relevant funding opportunities (calls for proposals). This also means that we need to find many panelists and reviewers that would be able and willing to review these proposals.

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International Data Exchange Workshop Report Released

carynn — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 06:23:00 -0700

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International Data Interoperability - The World Stress Map

carynn — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:46:00 -0800

The World Stress Map (WSM) merges data which otherwise would be fragmented in separate, often inaccessible archives. It provides the long-term preservation of tectonic stress data from physical loss of data carriers or organizational problems of data storage.

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IPY Manages Complex Interoperability on a Global Scale

carynn — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:23:00 -0700

Visit http://ipydis.org for more information!

From March, 2007 through March, 2009, researchers, data centers, archives and networks from across the globe are contributing data to the International Polar Year project. Interoperability is the key to harnessing these valuable resources in pursuit of a wide range of physical, biological and social research topics. The recently released IPYDIS website (http://ipydis.org) is a mechanism for researchers, data managers, and IT professionals who are contributing to and benefiting from this global collaboration.

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