Seavox -- SeaDataNet & MarineXML Vocabularies
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The SeaDataNet and MarineXML Vocabulary Content Governance Group is an e-mail discussion list covering all controlled vocabulary issues concerning the EU SeaDataNet project and IOC MarineXML Steering Group with the exception of platform instances (ship codes). These will remain under ICES technical and content governance. The IOC MarineXML Steering Group is responsible for the vocabulary issues of the IOC MEDI Steering Group and hence the IOC Marine Profile of the ISO19115 metadata content standard. The aim of the list is to reach consensus through discussion on the topics raised. A week of silence on a topic is taken as 'subject closed' and the decisions made on that topic will be implemented. If consensus cannot be reached then the decision becomes the responsibility of the IOC MarineXML Steering Group Chair (currently Roy Lowry at BODC). The list is open to anyone with a genuine interest in controlled vocabularies for the marine science domain. The technical governance of the controlled vocabularies covered by the list's content governance is the responsibility of BODC, who will make the lists publicly available through the NERC DataGrid Vocabulary Server (http://www.bodc.ac.uk/products/web_services/vocab/). This is a Web Service API, but may be accessed through a client at http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/client/vocabServer.jsp. To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the Seavox Archives.
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