[OntGov] Discipline Keywords

[Lowry, Roy K.]

Hi Yassine,

The reason I don't want to do that is the way I'm thinking (as you'll see from D3.4 when it's circulated) is to make the disciplines top concepts in a thesaurus populated with a hierarchy of theme plus discipline concepts.  If we took the concatenation of both complete lists as our top concepts then we would end up with duplicates such as 'Cryosphere'.

However, your suggestion does make me wonder whether we could 'cherry pick' concepts to produce a hybrid list of top concepts. If we took that approach are there any concepts in either last that we should exclude from the NETMAR list of disciplines?

Cheers, Roy.

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Subject: Re: [OntGov] Discipline Keywords

Hi Roy,

How about using both, ideally with mappings between disciplines from both sides? I believe that, given the small size of the lists, we can do that.

Cheers,
Yassine



On 13/01/2011 12:24, "Lowry, Roy K." <rkl at bodc.ac.uk> wrote:
Dear All,

As part of the NETMAR faceted discovery we wish to include a set of keywords that correspond to the ISO19115 'Discipline' keyword type that are available with mappings to fine-grained parameter descriptions.

There are two candidate lists:

SeaDataNet Parameter Disciplines [http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/list/current/P081]

Administration and dimension    Parameters related to spatial and temporal co-ordinates, entity referencing (eg record numbering and keys) and access control"
Atmosphere                      The atmospheric sciences domain
Biological oceanography The biological oceanographic science domain
Chemical oceanography   The chemical oceanographic science domain
Cross-discipline                        No specific association with an identified domain
Cryosphere                      The cryosphere science domain, including ice on both land and sea
Environment                     The domain documenting the activities of man that have an effect on the Earth System.
Fisheries and aquaculture       The science domain concerned with aquatic life taken from the wild or farmed for human
 consumption
Marine geology          The marine geological science domain
Physical oceanography           The physical oceanographic science domain
Terrestrial                     The terrestrial science domain

MEDIN Parameter Discipline Keywords [http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/list/current/P231]

Administration, boundaries, dimensions and entity referencing   Parameters related to spatial and temporal coordinates (e.g. protected sites, administrative divisions), entity referencing (e.g. gazetteer) and access control"
Anthropogenic Properties        Parameters describing the abundance, nature and impact of material or energy added to the environment by the activities of man (e.g. contaminants, dredge material dumping, litter, noise)"
Bathymetry and Seafloor topography      The topic which collates information on the depth and topography of the sea floor that may be used for navigation or understanding scientific processes (e.g. water depth, seafloor topography, bathymetry)."
Cryosphere      Physical or chemical properties of snow and ice on the earths surface, (e.g. sea ice, snow cover, glaciers, ice caps and ice sheets).
Cultural, Heritage and Marine Archaeology       Data on seabed and subsurface cultural and heritage objects (e.g. historically relevant ships, jetties, objects). Includes historic landscape information.
Fisheries and Aquaculture       The topic concerned with aquatic life taken from the wild or farmed for human consumption and the facilities required to harvest those aquatic life. (e.g. cod fisheries, salmon farming, cockle picking)
Marine Biodiversity     The extent and composition of species and habitats and the ecological processes that support them. (e.g. productivity, phytoplankton abundance, alien species, biological reef extent)
Marine Chemistry        Chemical features of the seas (eg, nutrients, carbon, dissolved gases, metals, organic compounds)"
Marine Geology  Composition and structure of geological features on or below the seabed or associated with the coast (e.g. sediment, magnetics, gravity, geomorphology)"
Meteorology and Atmospheric Conditions  Physical, chemical and weather characteristics of the atmosphere (e.g. wind speed, evaporation, humidity, pCO2).
Physical Oceanography   Physical features of the seas (eg, tides, waves, salinity, temperature, suspended particulate material, optical measurements)
Socio-economic and Infrastructure       The use and location of buildings, ships, monitoring platforms or other structures that are manmade (e.g. platforms, wind farms, cables, transportation, coastal defence structures, barrages, piers). Information may be economic based.

Does anybody have any input as to which set would be better suited to NETMAR?

Cheers, Roy.


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