International

ad hoc Strategic Committee on Information and Data (SCID)

carynn — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:30:34 -0700

Background, from SCID Homepage

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.

DICE Center

kwalz — Wed, 12 May 2010 09:56:13 -0700

From DICE Center website:

The DICE Center is a new campus-wide UNC Center, created in April 2009, which builds on a 13-year research and development effort out of the DICE Group. The DICE Center is a community of scholars and science and technology experts at UNC coming together to:

Digital Curation Exchange

graybeal — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:10:05 -0800

The Digital Curation Exchange is a community collaboration site much like MMI, focusing on digital curation.

From the web site:

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.

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.

Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)

luisBer — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:51:00 -0800

Project Introduction

GALEON

luisBer — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 18:25:00 -0800

GALEON (Gateway or Geo-interface for Air Land Earth Ocean NetCDF) is Unidata's OGC Interoperability Experiment.

The project will be both a formal OGC Interoperability Experiment related to the Web Coverage Service (WCS) interface specifications, and a set of software implementation experiments which, it is hoped, will go beyond the OGC membership into the world of OPeNDAP, LAS, THREDDS, NetCDF, etc.

GO-ESSP

ngalbraith — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:43:00 -0800

The Global Organization for Earth System Science Portal (GO-ESSP) is a collaboration designed to develop a new generation of software infrastructure that will provide distributed access to observed and simulated data from the climate and weather communities.

ICAN 5: Coastal Atlases as Engines for Coastal & Marine Spatial Planning

deepseadawn — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:26:46 -0700

Start: 08/31/2011 - 00:00

End: 09/02/2011 - 23:59

The 5th International Coastal Atlas Workshop (ICAN 5) will be held at the headquarters of the UNESCO International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) in Oostende, Belgium, August 31 to September 2, 2011. IODE will then be co-hosting CoastGIS 2011 in Oostende immediately following. ICAN 5 will focus on coastal web atlases as engines that support and drive the coastal/marine spatial planning (CMSP) process, primarily in northern and southern Europe, the US, the Caribbean, and Africa.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)

kwalz — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:43:00 -0800

International Hydrographic Organization (IHO)

kwalz — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:42:00 -0800

The International Hydrographic Organization is an intergovernmental organization established in 1921 to promote the safety of marine navigation and the protection of the marine environment. Currently IHO has 74 maritime nations participating as members.

Their objectives (listed on the IHO web site) are to bring about:

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

kwalz — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:53:00 -0800

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an international standard-setting body composed of representatives from 157 national standards organizations from around the world. Founded in 1947, this non-governmental organization publishes world-wide industrial and commercial standards and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

Many ISO standards are represented on the MMI site, including:

International Workshop: Sensing a Changing World

carynn — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:43:58 -0700

Start: 11/19/2008 - 00:00

End: 11/21/2008 - 00:00

From the workshop website:

Current developments in sensor technology provide increasing opportunities to analyze human behavior and monitor environmental processes in a changing world.

IRD

kwalz — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 12:16:00 -0700

From IRD website:

IRD is a French public research institute working for the development of Southern countries, reporting to the Ministries responsible for research and overseas development.

IRD researchers address major development challenges regarding environment, sustainable development of living resources, social studies and health.

Launch of GBIF Community Site

kwalz — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 12:19:45 -0700

In August, the Global Biodiversity Initiative Facility (GBIF) Secretariat launched the GBIF Community Site, a free social networking site to enhance communication among researchers, data publishers and users, and everyone interested in Biodiversity Informatics. All are welcome to join and "share information about events, open calls, product releases, [and] collaboration opportunities in biodiversity data." There are also a number of collaboration tools available in the site: work groups, (micro)blogs, community news, online chat, file and image sharing, to name a few. For more information, visit: http://www.gbif.org/communications/resources/platforms/gbif-community-site/.

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.

NEPTUNE Canada

kwalz — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:24:58 -0700

The NEPTUNE Canada Project (North-East Pacific Time-Series Underwater Networked Experiments) currently has 800 km of cable connecting a suite of oceanographic instruments and video cameras in the "first regional-scale underwater ocean observatory that plugs directly into the Internet." The observatory, located in the Northeast Pacific off the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, is "collecting data from 11 instrument platforms and over 50 instruments installed in 4 locations" along the 800-km cable.

NetCDF and CF Conventions as Formal Standards

kwalz — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:05:55 -0700

NetCDF (Network Common Data Form) refers to a data model for array-oriented scientific data; a freely distributed collection of access libraries implementing support for that data model; and a machine-independent, self-describing data format. Together, the interfaces, libraries, and format support the creation, access, and sharing of scientific data. For many communities, the Climate and Forecast (CF) conventions for netCDF have served as a de facto interoperability standard, but one that has never been recognized by a formal standards body.