Metadata

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:

Marine Community Profile of ISO 19115

glr — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:03:00 -0800

Metacat

swatson — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:20:00 -0800

Metacat is a metadata database. It uses XML as a common syntax for representing the large number of metadata content standards that are relevant to ecology. Metacat is a generic XML database that allows storage, query, and retrieval of XML documents without prior knowledge of the XML schema or DTD. Metacat is part of the Knowledge Network for biological complexity: http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/

OBIS Schema

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

The OBIS schema is the content standard used by OBIS, the Ocean Biogeographic Information System. It represents an extension of the Darwin Core Version 2. It is designed for marine biodiversity data, specifically to record the capture or observation of a particular species or other taxonomic group at a particular location. It can also be applied to museum specimen data.

ObsKML

jcothran — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:20:00 -0800

See http://nautilus.baruch.sc.edu/twiki_dmcc/bin/view/Main/ObsKML

A discussion page for an observations oriented KML.

OGC Publisher Tool

jbosch — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:20:00 -0800

The OGC Publisher utility is an easy to install, easy to use tool that simplifies the process of publishing oceanographic data to key OGC standards. The goal is to lower the barriers to participation in the IOOS Interoperability Demo and to facilitate greater interoperability in general. The first phase of development is now complete and two organizations are participating in the first round of testing.

SEACOOS NetCDF Standard

rkl — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:03:00 -0800

NOTE: The SEACOOS project has terminated, although many resources are still on line. The SECOORA project is currently updating these resources and will be publishing new versions sometime in 2009. Please use the links on this page with caution, as they are now deprecated.

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:

Tkme

swatson — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:01:00 -0800

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.

USGS Metadata Tools

jbosch — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:00:00 -0800

Metadata information and tools available from the USGS.

Xtme

swatson — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:59:00 -0800