Migration of MMI web completed

The MMI Web Site, where you are reading this, has transitioned to its new home at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC), in the Harte Research Institute.

Migration of mmisw.org completed on schedule

The MMI Ontology Registry and Repository (ORR) has transitioned to its new home at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC). On Friday September 6, Technical Lead Carlos Rueda worked with Felimon Gayanilo (Systems Architect, Harte Research Institute) and Phil Hale (Systems Administrator) of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi to re-host the site.

NOAA's National Coastal Data Development Center will again be hosting metadata training webcasts in 7 1-hour sessions. These are free training events, focused on basic metadata capabilities with an FGDC Content Standards for Digitial Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM, commonly referred to as the FGDC standard). 

Webinars are held every week on Tuesday from 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM CST (GMT-5). Each session topic will last no longer than one hour.

To become an MMI member, see this page for instructions. Registrations are disabled due to spam, so we'll take care of you personally!

The MMI Project is pleased to report an MMI-based paper, Semantic mediation of vocabularies for ocean observing systems, has been published in the journal Computers & Geosciences. Co-authored by John Graybeal, Anthony Isenor, and Carlos Rueda, the paper describes how semantic mediation of vocabularies is needed for any diverse ocean observing system, and the semantic framework and technologies introduced by MMI. It includes an explanation of the MMI Ontology Registry and Repository, describing many of its features, present uses, and possible future uses.

This paper serves as a simple basic introduction to semantic tools and mediation, an overview of MMI's semantic framework and tools, and a great citation for the MMI ORR work that has been funded by NSF and supported by MMI's staff and many volunteers.