Task: 7 Work Area - Monitor crosswalk development

Task: 7 Work Area of 2006 Work Plan for Tech Committee - Monitor crosswalk development

Description: Monitor existing efforts to develop crosswalks between disparate vocabularies and develop crosswalks only as a last resort.

Members: Anne Ball, Annette Schloss, Bob Branton, Joan Palmer, Lou Van Guelpen

Due date: Review and recommendations due November 1, 2006

Vocabularies:

General

• GCMD's Science Keywords and Associated Directory Keywords
• Canada's Marine Environmental Data Services code list
• U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) Ocean Archive System authority tables
• U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) data storage/output formats and codes

• U.S. Geographic Names Information System
• Geographical Names of Canada

• EPA Substance Registry System
  Information on substances and how they are represented in the EPA regulations and information systems

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
• U.S.
• Canadian
• Species 2000
  Enumerating all known species of organisms on earth.
• Catalogue of Life
  Species 2000 collaborates with ITIS to index the world’s known species.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
  Developing an Electronic Catalogue of Names of Known Organisms, in conjunction the Catalogue of Life program of Species 2000 and ITIS. Click on Report, ECNKO STAG meeting, Sydney, March 2002, for details.
• FishBase?
  A global information system on fishes.
• Catalog of Fishes
  All fish species, genera, and references, along with the classification, introduction, and list of museum abbreviations.
• Glossary of Aquaculture

• European Register of Marine Species
  A species list for European marine waters.
• Marine Species Registers of the North Atlantic
  A hierarchical array of species lists and information, mostly in progress, being developed by the Atlantic Reference Centre:
• Bay of Fundy Species Information
• Gulf of Maine Register of Marine Species
• Canadian Atlantic Register of Marine Species
• Northwest Atlantic Register of Marine Species, Arctic to Cape Hatteras
  Temporary site
• North-western North Atlantic Ocean Species
• North-eastern North Atlantic Ocean Species

• Required vocabularies
• IOOS Identifiers

"IOOS"
"Integrated Ocean Observing System
• IOOS Core Variables - list to be posted shortly
• IOOS National Backbone Programs - list to be posted shortly
• ISO Topic Categories
• Recommended vocabularies
• GCMD's science keywords and associated directory keywords
• IHO Codes for Oceans and Seas
• OBIS Marine Species Groups
• CF Standards Names