IOOS vocabulary and ontology strategy for observed properties

OCEANS 2012 MTS/IEEE: Harnessing the Power of the Ocean

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Haines, Sara ^a   Subramanian, Vembu ^b   Mayorga, Emilio ^c   Snowden, Derrick ^d   Ragsdale, Rob ^d   Rueda, Carlos ^e   Howard, Matthew ^f  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d IOOS Program Office   (United States)

^e MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

observing; ocean; ontology; semantic web; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

COASTAL OCEAN; COASTAL OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEM; COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT; INTEGRATED OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS; OBSERVING; OCEAN; OCEAN OBSERVING; RAPID GROWTH; REGIONAL ASSOCIATIONS; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES; VOCABULARY;

DATA INTEGRATION; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTIC WEB;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 84873607314     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS.2012.6405083     Document Type: Conference Paper

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