Colour of Ocean Data
The Palais des Congrès, Brussels, Belgium
25-27 November 2002
New internet developments
Extendable Mark-up Language, or XML, is a powerful new tool, not only to structure web page content, but also as a tool in data exchange. Efforts are also under way in the oceanographic data community to develop a marine XML application, e.g. by the Marine XML Consortium. What progress has the XML Consortium made? How does Marine XML fit in with other relevant XML standards? Is this an opportunity for biodiversity and ecological data to be included in the mainstream of oceanographic data exchange? New internet developments obviously do not stop with XML, and topics like portal sites, distributed databases and others also deserve our attention.
Chairman: Peter Pissierssens, Head, Ocean Services IOC (IOC/OCS), France
- Presentation by the Chair: Peter Pissierssens and Greg Reed. New internet development: marine XML. (presentation)
Invited presentations:
- Nicolay Mikhailov (Head, Director, World Data Centre for Oceanography – Obninsk, Russia), E. Vyazilov, A. Besprozvanykh and N. Puzova. XML in Russian NODC and perspectives - Medblackdods and other (presentation)
- Lola Olsen (Project Manager, Global Change Master Directory/NASA) and Monica Holland. The colour of distributed internet resources available through the Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) (presentation)
submitted presentations
- N. Smith. Ocean information technology: New approaches to ocean data management (presentation)
- G. Hesselmans, C.J. Calkoen and G.J. Wensink. New satellite based e-services to serve the marine and coastal community (presentation)
- E. Vyazilov, S.V. Belov and S.V. Sukhonosov. The experience of using XML for a wide class of metadata objects (presentation)
- P. Sandbeck. Use of XML technology in the Baltic Sea Fishery Database (presentation)
- J.S. Sarupria and G.V. Reddy. An interactive hydrographic data visualization and retrieval system for the Indian Ocean (presentation)
- K. Millard. MarineXML - Using XML technology for marine data interoperability (presentation)
poster presentations/demonstrations
- Davis, D.; O'Reilly, D.; Edgington, D.; Schramme, R. Using XML technology for data and system metadata for the MBARI Ocean Observing System
- Dupont, S.; Lehon, M.; Pirali, B.; Roberfroid, S. CERES 5.0, a dynamic toolkit to turn the chaos of data into convenient Internet reports
- Egli, H.; Dassenakis, M.; Garelick, H.; Van Grieken, R.; Peijnenburg, W.J.G.M.; Kördel, W.; Klasinc, L. Minimum requirements for reporting analytical data from marine environmental samples
- Gelfeld, R.; Rickards, L. ICES Data Type Guidelines - Data and Metadata
- Giorgetti, A.; Fichaut, A.M.; Iona, A.; Manca, B.; Maillard, C.; Balopoulos, E. EU/MAST-MATER database 1996-1999: A reference database of high quality multidisciplinary data collected within the framework of a major international research project, in the Mediterranean Sea
- Hernandez, F.; Cattrijsse, A.; Vanden Berghe, E. Marine information and data acquisition system
- Jansen, T. BaltCom Datawarehouse. Online datamining using Analysis Services
- Rees, T. C-squares - a new method for representing, querying, displaying and exchanging dataset spatial extents
- T'Jampens, R.; Vanden Berghe, E. What you want is what you get – a web interface for World Ocean Database 98