[Seavox] Devices: a new vocabulary for SeaVoX

[Neil Holdsworth]

Hi Roy,

 

That seems like a good idea - no objections.

 

Neil

 

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Sent: 29 September 2010 09:57
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Subject: [Seavox] Devices: a new vocabulary for SeaVoX

 

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.

 

 

 


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