1. Marine Metadata Interoperability http://marinemetadata.org Acknowledgements Ongoing funding for this project is provided by the National Science Foundation through grant ATM-0447031. Major contributions to the project are being provided by SURA, the Southeastern Universities Research Association, and SCOOP, the SURA Coastal Oceans Observing Program, with funds provided in part+ by ONR, the U.S. Office of Naval Research. A significant bridge funding grant has been provided by NOAA's Coastal Services Center. Further support has been provided by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Guides Guides References We promote events, such as workshops and web conferences, for the advancement of cyberinfrastructure in the marine community. Our hundreds of members regularly participate in MMI activities. A metadata technical team constantly works to develop and update guides. Each guide is presented as a specific and concrete question helping users to understand better the key technologies for working with marine metadata. We present the most complete set of references about vocabularies and ontologies, metadata transport protocols, content standard and profiles, tools, and projects related to the advancing of cyberinfrastructure in the marine realm. Events We present the most up to date list of events related to marine data management. Any member can post an event and it will be automatically ordered and presented in a “smart” and friendly way. Vocabulary Integration Environment Tool (VINE). Marine scientists face an opportunity and a challenge in the volume of data available from various ocean observing systems. The MMI Project can help make it easier for you to find, access, and use other data sets. If you create marine science data sets, MMI can help make your data easier to advertise, distribute, reuse, and combine with other data sets. Our goal is to promote collaborative research in the marine science domain, by simplifying the incredibly complex world of metadata into specific, straightforward guidance. MMI hopes to encourage scientists and data managers at all levels to apply good metadata practices from the start of a project, by providing the best advice and resources for data management. MMI Mission Complexity and heterogeneity of observational data sources in the MUSE Project http://www.mbari.org/MUSE/ “MMI Workshop: Advancing Domain Vocabularies”, Aug, 2005 Register and contribute to the site, participate in and/or co-host a workshop that teaches how to handle your kind of data, participate in the interoperability demonstration, test, provide feedback to, and contribute to our guides, participate in our help forum, publish and manage online documentation about your project MMI participation in other projects and activities Participating in the MMI Send an email to info@marinemetadata.org to get more information. Community Creation The MMI Web Site The MMI Web Site Ontology Work Ontology Work Interoperability Testbed Tethys: A Service Oriented Architecture, including registries, semantic mediation and aggregators for environmental observatories. Easily Create mappings with few clicks Easily Search thousands of terms See previous mappings See interfered mappings See all the information about a resource in a friendly way GCMD CF BODC Watch every day for changes Convert to Ontologies SWEET … Publish and Share Real Time Harmonization of Controlled Vocabularies An ontology is formal representation of a domain knowledge; for example, a list of parameters used in an information system to tag the data sets. When these parameters are expressed in a formal manner, such as the Web Ontology Language (OWL) it becomes an ontology. We facilitate the creation of ontologies by fostering meetings and publishing guides. We also provide services and tools to support the community. One of our services is a real time harmonization of standardized vocabularies, and one of our tools is VINE, an application to map controlled vocabularies. Tethys Architecture 2006.06.07 Web Client to show latest salinity data from different data producers. http://www.openioos.org/testbed/salinity/index.html