Marine Metadata

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Marine Metadata

• Status Report for
• IOOS DMAC Meeting
• October 20, 2005

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Project Stability

• Luis Bermudez H1B in progress
• 2-year application (approval routine)
• Until more funding obtained, some of his time
  will be shared with related project
• Funded thinly thru 9/06 (half time9/07)
• Longer-term proposal to NSF in progress
• Prognosis uncertain but leaning forward
• Reviewing multi-agency strategies
• Developing IOOS, NOAA CSC connections
• No straightforward multi-agency funding process

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Milestones

• Mapping workshop successfully held
• Established leadership in one area of need
• Enlarged larger sciencetech community
• Significant and useful tools created
• VINE for vocabulary mapping
• Voc2OWL for improving vocab formats
• Ontological, community credentials good
• Google marine metadata ? MMI

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VINE
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Voc2OWL
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60 Ontologies Available
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MMI Workshop Mappings
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Progress Continues

• Public presence fairly strong
• Presentations to Oceans(DC), IOOS, GEON, OOSTech,
  QARTOD, AGU(3)
• Regular and mostly positive references
• Premier site for general information
• Site continues to grow
• 180 members, 650 documents and references
• Active involvement of many
• Promising collaborative possibilities
• MBARI support developing
• Proposal team moving forward

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Needs work

• Demonstration (momentum, tech details)
• Web site (target audience, content)
• Architectures for semantic mediation
• Workshop (completion, carry-forward)
• Labor availability (paid, volunteer)
• Proposal

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Strategic Concerns

• Expectations outrunning capabilities
• Vocabularies mapping tools services guides
  references standards workshops outreach
  community
• Strong desire to say MMIll take care of it
• Low hanging fruit is mostly picked
• Funding (stability, scope, availability)
• Selecting best operational role
• Selecting best ways to contribute/lead

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