[Seavox] Sea Area Thesaurus

[Lowry, Roy K]

Dear All,

Some life at last on planet SeaVoX!

The first stage of the Sea Area thesaurus project is now done with the XML publication of an interlinked set of terms at http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/list/C191/current. A formatted version of the terms (but not their linkages) may be found as the C191 list at http://seadatanet.maris2.nl/v_bodc_vocab/welcome.aspx

The next job is to obtain suitable public domain polygon co-ordinates corresponding to the terms and arrange for them to be accessible via WFS.  There are a number of potential data sources, including the 1953 S23 co-ordinates held at BODC, data served from the VLIZ gazetteer.  URLs to WFS-accessible polygons will be included as concept definitions as they become available.  An interesting test of OGC interoperability might be to have these served from multiple sources!

A meeting is planned at BODC around 14-15 May to identify additional sources of high resolution data for the C19 regions in the vicinity of the UK together with a set of finer-grained  sub-regions for UK waters that would be added to the thesaurus.

One issue for SeaDataNet colleagues on the list to consider is whether we should consider replacing C16 by C19.  If so, when and how?

Cheers, Roy.

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