HR: 15:10h
AN: SF43B-07    [Abstracts]
TI: Marine Metadata Interoperability: A Community Framework
AU: * Graybeal, J B
EM: graybeal@mbari.org
AF: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), 7700 Sandholdt Rd., Moss Landing, CA 95039 United States
AU: Watson, S
EM: swatson@mbari.org
AF: Central and Northern California Ocean Observing System (CeNCOOS), 7700 Sandholdt Rd., Moss Landing, CA 95039 United States
AU: Bogden, P S
EM: bogden@gomoos.org
AF: Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA), 1201 New York Ave. NW, Suite 430, Washington, DC 20005 United States
AB: There are a number of independent metadata projects throughout the ocean science community, each developing some combination of standards, tools, and ontologies. Some are project-specific, and others address entire disciplines. Few of these efforts have engaged the wider ocean science community, or provided a coordinated set of resources that can guide the development of distributed, integrated and interoperable ocean-data systems. The Marine Metadata Interoperability team plans to implement a community-based framework to coordinate developmens in usable, interoperable marine metadata. The project will build from the myriad existing efforts, encourage widespread community participation (national and international), and demonstrate the use and benefits of metadata standardization through development of prototype interoperable data management solutions. Our goals are to engage the ocean science community by: a) providing technical guidance and reference documentation on using and developing metadata solutions; b) encouraging community involvement in the development and evaluation of those documents, and c) establishing two test-bed activities to demonstrate cross- platform, cross-disciplinary, interoperable distributed data systems. The two coordinated test-bed demonstrations will leverage metadata work across at least three different types of data acquisition systems: (1) cabled or moored platforms, (2) mobile autonomous systems, and (3) remote-sensing platforms. Multiple instances of each system, from different institutions, will be included in the application of existing, modular and scalable data systems. The proposed work will provide resources for metadata development to the ocean science community, building from developments in computer science and other geosciences. It will support the NSF emphasis on needed interoperability between data systems, as demonstrated through ORION and several recent interoperability workshops. It will also address a top priority in the OceanUS Data Management and Communications (DMAC) plan.
UR: http://wiki.mbari.org/marinemetadatawiki/MetadataInteroperabilityProposal
DE: 9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields
DE: 4894 Instruments and techniques
DE: 4294 Instruments and techniques
DE: 4594 Instruments and techniques
DE: 3094 Instruments and techniques
SC: Special Focus: Advances in Data Acquisition, Management, Analysis and Display [SF]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting