[Seavox] Devices: a new vocabulary for SeaVoX

[Lowry, Roy K]

Dear All,

SeaVoX traffic resembles buses.  Nothing for ages then two messages come together!

There has been a project in BODC over the past couple of years to tag data with more detailed device metadata, using actual instrument names rather than instrument categories to populate 'data production tool' fields in metadata.  Thus 'Aanderaa RCM4/5' is now used instead of 'Savonious rotor current meter'.  When I looked at the metadatabase we were building to support this it became apparent that it fitted very comfortably into the vocabulary data model and that the concepts in it could be mapped to the 'SeaDataNet device categories'  (the L05x group of lists) to form quite a handy thesaurus, which I have exposed through the NERC Vocabulary Server as http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/list/L221

In parallel, the IODE GE-BiCh  expert group - largely the work of Mary Kennedy -  has compiled a comprehensive list of nets and plankton samplers that would fit neatly together with the BODC list. Mary and Hernan Garcia of USNODC have also recently been working on compiling a catalogue of water samplers, which could be included.

So, my proposal is that the L221 vocabulary be transferred from BODC to SeaVoX governance, merged with the GE-BiCh contributions and further developed as a joint effort by SeaVoX.  Is this an acceptable proposition?

Cheers, Roy.




-- 
This message (and any attachments) is for the recipient only. NERC
is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the contents
of this email and any reply you make may be disclosed by NERC unless
it is exempt from release under the Act. Any material supplied to
NERC may be stored in an electronic records management system.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.nerc-liv.ac.uk/pipermail/seavox/attachments/20100929/d8aae1ff/attachment.html