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Science Word and Key Word Standards for Marine Data

Contents 1 Background 2 Standards Recommendation 3 Decisions 4 Additional Resources 5 Subsections of this Article 6 Information about this article 7 Contact

Background

In January, 2008, the IOC and JCOMM convened a workshop entitled the IODE/JCOMM Forum on Oceanographic Data Management and Exchange Standards (IOC Workshop Rept. 206), to consider selected principal issues on establishing marine data standards, with the goal of furthering marine data interoperability. In particular the aim of the workshop was to get broad agreement and commitment to adopt a number of standards related to ocean data management and exchange, thereby assembling not only the agreed conditions by which we operate, but in fact enact these agreements in the participants' respective organizations.

Standards Recommendation

Mr. Taco de Bruin (The Netherlands NIOZ) introduced this item and moderated discussions. He reviewed the various lists and strategies for managing science words that exist.

Decisions

• The meeting considered the Global Change Master Directory Science Keywords and was informed that in GCMD most keywords are found under atmosphere, followed by biosphere and oceans. The meeting welcomed the GCMD keyword list but expressed its concern about deletion of keywords which had already caused serious problems in database systems. As a result BODC had made a copy of the GCMD list at a certain time and now uses that.
• The meeting concluded that the GCMD has an excellent keyword list but it would benefit from a revised management with special attention to the problems caused by deletions.

Additional Resources

• Marine Metadata Interoperability Project's listing of parameter discovery vocabularies containing lists of terms (sometimes called keywords) that are used to standardise the process of finding data. Discovery vocabularies cover a wide metadata spectrum including descriptions of parameters, platforms, instruments, projects, geographic areas, etc.

Subsections of this Article

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Information about this article

Short title: Key Words

Description: none

Expertise level: beginner

Author: Murray.Brown

Approval status: approved

Approved by: Murray.Brown

Last change: 2008-10-15

Subsection of: Marine Data Standards

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