HR: 11:20h
AN: IN52A-06 INVITED    [Abstracts]
TI: Building Community and Governance of Metadata and Ontologies Within the Marine Community
AU: * Graybeal, J
EM: graybeal@mbari.org
AF: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039, United States
AB: For three years the Marine Metadata Interoperability Project has been explicitly building a metadata community for the marine sciences. Toward that goal, the organization identified technical resources, developed tools, provided guidance, held workshops, gave scores of presentations, led and participated in interoperability demonstrations, and contributed to standards development activities. All of this information has been presented on the organization's web site, and is used to increase awareness and participation of the community. As a successful community-building project with many accomplishments to date, MMI is keenly aware of the opportunities -- and the need -- for further progress. In this talk, we will frankly present the successes, challenges, and lessons of the project to date; consider MMI in the context of like-minded organizations; consider opportunities for MMI and similar organizations to achieve semantic interoperability objectives; and envision a more thoroughly collaborative and effective marine science community. Finally, with this background in mind, the presentation will discuss how to best manage the standards and ontologies needed for earth science data systems interoperability.
UR: http://marinemetadata.org/agucommunitybuilding
DE: 4294 Instruments and techniques
DE: 9810 New fields (not classifiable under other headings)
DE: 9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting