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[Roy Lowry]

John/Karen,

What I'm trying to do with the definitions is to try and lead hard data (ie actual measurement depths) to term conversions towards consistency.  How about if I use a scientific definition and then give the associated physical distance specification as a 'guideline'.  I'm guessing Bryan's proposed 'pattern' for the atmospheric domain might be along these lines.  Would you be happy with that?

I have involved some ocean scientists at POL and NOCS plus Bryan and other atmospheric scientists at RAL in the initial discussions on this vocabulary, but will test out the result on a few more.

Cheers, Roy.

>>> John Graybeal <graybeal at mbari.org> 10/31/06 4:31 AM >>>
Some points:

- Is it of any concern that Wikipedia cites differing opinions about the names of deeper zones?  (Ignoring the obvious possibility that Wikipedia is wrong, it seems likely that some might disagree -- any concern about that?)
- Wikipedia spells it hadopelagic.  Probably some American thing.
- The lack of "about" in the definitions, as in "about 1000 meters", concerned me -- Wikipedia rings more true in that respect, though still with flaws. I guess the application of the definition is all in how the keywords will be used, and why I have such trouble with keywords in the first place. So take it for what it's worth.
- I agree with Karen's comments on water column boundary layer.

Any reason we shouldn't run these by a bunch of non-data-centric scientists?  They should all agree too, right?

I thought the ASLO vocabulary had some overlapping terms, the benthic boundary layer in particular...?

John

At 10:00 AM +0000 10/30/06, Roy Lowry wrote:
>Dear All,
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>Please find attached a vocabulary developed from one of the EDIOS local vocabularies to provide terms for describing dataset vertical coverages in discovery metadata.  I would foresee these terms being used as ISO19115 keywords.  Please let me have any comments on content, terms or definitions.  I would also be interested if anyone knows of other vocabularies out there fulfilling this function so I can check them out for ease of interoperability.
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>Cheers, Roy.
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