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ABCDEFG
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
GeoCase Network
ABCDEFG (Access to Biological Collection Databases Extended for Geosciences) is an XML-Schema (Extensible Markup Language) developed for use with palaeontological, mineralogical and geological...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
AgGateway Consortium
OAGI - Open Applications Group
CIDX - Chemical Industry Data Exchange organization
The XML standards that CIDX developed for the global chemical industry, which is currently owned and maintained by OAGi. (CIDX merged into OAGi in 2009.). They're also called ... AgGateway Open...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Consiglio per la Ricerca e la Sperimentazione in Agricoltura (CRA)
agINFRA Consortium
Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR)
This vocabulary is a first formalization of the INSPIRE data model into an RDFs vocabulary.Developed by the Italian Consiglio per la Ricerca e la Sperimentazione in Agricoltura (CRA) in collaboration...
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
A list of codes referring to the countries / regional centres/ institutions that submitted the reference.
“Akoma Ntoso” is an Architecture for Knowledge-Oriented Management of African Normative Texts using Open Standards and Ontologies. It was developed specifically to describe in XML parliamentary,...
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American Meteorological Society (AMS)
In 1959, the AMS published the Glossary of Meteorology. Containing 7900 terms, more than 10,000 copies have been sold over four decades through five printings. It is a tribute to the editors of that...
METAR
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
METAR is a format for reporting weather information. A METAR weather report is predominantly used by pilots in fulfillment of a part of a pre-flight weather briefing, and by meteorologists, who use...
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United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
The BCH Thesaurus provides a pre-defined list of terms, related synonyms and translations used in the specific context of records registered with the Biosafety Clearing-House. It establishes the...
BUFR
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
World Meteorological Organization
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) code form FM 94 BUFR (Binary Universal Form for the Representation of meteorological data) is a binary code designed to represent, employing a continuous...
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Center for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
CEDA has used NASA-Ames formatted data for many years. NASA-Ames was devised primarily as a format for aircraft observations, but can be adapted for many atmospheric observation data. However, NASA-...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Consortium of European Research Libraries
The CERL Thesaurus File is a unique facility developed to address the particularly European issue that place name and personal names in Europe varied from country to country in the period of hand...
CLIMAT
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
World Meteorological Organization
CLIMAT is a code for reporting monthly climatological data assembled at land-based meteorological surface observation sites to data centres. CLIMAT-coded messages contain information on several...
CSML
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
British Atmospheric Data Centre
Climate Science Modelling Language v3.0 is a data model for encoding climate, atmospheric and oceanographic data in terms of geometry-based observation classes such as Points, Profiles, Trajectories...
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CLIPC Consortium
CLIPC (Constructing Europe's Climate Information Portal) is an EC FP7 project giving access to data from satellite and in-situ observations, climate models and re-analyses, as well as transformed...
ISO 639-2
Alpha-3 codes arranged alphabetically by the English name of language.
CAP
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
OASIS Emergency Management TC
The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) is a simple but general format for exchanging all-hazard emergency alerts and public warnings over all kinds of networks. CAP allows a consistent warning message to...
FGDC
The objectives of the standard are to provide a common set of terminology and definitions for the documentation of digital geospatial data. The standard establishes the names of data elements and...
CBD Controlled Vocabulary
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Convention of Biological Diversity
"It facilitates searching and retrieving information by linking similar documents and on-line resources with unique terms. It standardizes descriptions, and so assists in efforts to make information...
Computex
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
World Wide Web Foundation
Vocabulary for describing index structures and observations.
CO_705
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CGIAR
Describes official ISO 3166-1 alpha-2, alpha-3 and numeric country codes along with location names.
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Consiglio per la Ricerca e la Sperimentazione in Agricoltura (CRA)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
agINFRA Consortium
Knowledge Organization System containing all terms used as controlled values in the soil database of the Italian Consiglio per la Ricerca e la Sperimentazione in Agricoltura - Research Centre for...
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INSPIRE Registry
World Reference Base for Soil Resources
BUFR
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
World Meteorological Organization
DwC
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GBIF
Darwin Core (DwC) is a simple set of data element definitions designed to support the sharing and integration of primary biodiversity data. The DwC is a specification of data concepts and structure...
DDI
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
DDI Alliance
The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) is an international standard for describing the data produced by surveys and other observational methods in the social, behavioral, economic, and health...
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European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
EPW
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
EnergyPlus is a whole building energy simulation program that engineers, architects, and researchers use to model both energy consumption—for heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting and plug and...
FGDC/CSDGM
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Federal Geographic Data Committee
A widely-used, but no longer current standard defining the information content for a set of digital geospatial data required by the US Federal Government. CSDGM was sponsored by the US Federal...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Christophe Boutreux
The GeoNames geographical database is available for download free of charge under a creative commons attribution license. It contains over 10 million geographical names and consists of over 9 million...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Geopolitical ontology The FAO geopolitical ontology and related services have been developed to facilitate data exchange and sharing in a standardized manner among systems managing information about...
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JISC Digital Repositories programme
EDINA National Datacentre (Geoservices)
The Geospatial Application Profile describes geospatial resources held in institutional repositories. Geospatial Application Profile (GAP) is analogous to the ePrints (SWAP) Profile
TGN
A hierarchical vocabulary of around 1.3 million names, and coordinates and other information for around 911,000 geographic places.available as TGN Relational table format, REC format, USMARC format...
GCMD
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Global Change Master Directory, NASA
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
United States Environment Protection Agency
Glossary of Climate Change Terms is maintained by US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and defines terms used in relation to climate change.
GR-TAX
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Gramene
It is a representation of the taxonomy tree in the ontology format. Each term in this ontology can represent subspecies, species, genus, order, class or any rank in the classification. Primarily...
GRIB
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
World Meteorological Organization
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Commission for Basic Systems (CBS) Extraordinary Meeting Number VIII (1985) approved a general purpose, bit-oriented data exchange format, designated FM 92...
HDF5
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
HDF Group
The format of an HDF5 file on disk encompasses several key ideas of the HDF4 and AIO file formats as well as addressing some shortcomings therein. The new format is more self-describing than the HDF4...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
European Commission Joint Research Centre
INSPIRE Thematic Working Group Coordinate Reference Systems & Geographical Grid Systems
The theme establishes a structure for spatial referencing of features by coordinates. It refers to ISO 19111 adding a higher accuracy level.
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
European Commission Joint Research Centre
INSPIRE Thematic Working Group Coordinate Reference Systems & Geographical Grid Systems
Geographical grids are an agreed, defined and harmonised grid net for Pan-Europe with standardised location and size of grid cells. Examples of cell sizes could be 10x10 m, 100x100 m, 1x1 km, 16x16...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
European Commission Joint Research Centre
INSPIRE Thematic Working Group Coordinate Reference Systems & Geographical Grid Systems
A geographical name is a proper noun applied to a natural, man-made or cultural feature on Earth. A feature can have different names in one or several languages and the names may be provided,...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
European Commission Joint Research Centre
INSPIRE Thematic Working Group Coordinate Reference Systems & Geographical Grid Systems
Physical conditions in the atmosphere. Includes spatial data based on measurements, on models or on a combination thereof and includes measurement locations. The INSPIRE themes "Atmospheric...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
European Commission Joint Research Centre
INSPIRE Thematic Working Group Coordinate Reference Systems & Geographical Grid Systems
Weather conditions and their measurements; precipitation, temperature, evapotranspiration, wind speed and direction. The scope of 'Meteorological geographical features' thematic data should be...
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
International Association for Plant Taxonomy
The Melbourne Code contains agreed rules on the nomenclature of organisms. Electronic version of the original English text, adopted by the Seventeenth International Botanical Congress. Vienna,...
ISI Glossary
The present version of the ISI Multilingual Glossary of Statistical Terms is a continuation of the Internet usage and is intended to demonstrate the versatility of the information gathered, as well...
ISO 3166
Code lists extracted from ISO 3166-1 containing all short country names and alpha-2 code elements officially published by ISO. Updated whenever a change of country name and/or alpha-2 code element is...
ISO 639-1:2002
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
Austrian Standards Institute
It is the first part of the ISO 639 series of international standards for language codes. Part 1 covers the registration of two-letter codes. There are 184 two-letter codes registered as of October...
GMD
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
ISO/TC 211 Organization
International Standards Organisation
XML schema (GMD) for the ISO 19115:2003 Geographic Information - Metadata..The objective of this International Standard is to provide a structure for describing digital geographic data. This...
IWXXM
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
World Meteorological Organization
IWXXM (ICAO Meteorological Information Exchange Model) is a format for reporting weather information in XML/GML. IWXXM includes XML/GML-based representations for products standardized in...
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E-LIS, E-prints in Library and Information Science
JITA is a classification schema of Library and Information Science (LIS). It is used by E-LIS, an international open repository for scientific papers in Library and Information Science, for indexing...
LC-CCI
Publisher(s) / Maintainer(s):
Climate Change Initiative (CCI)
The Climate Change Initiative (CCI) generates global Land Cover (LC) products with climatological 7-day time series representing seasonal dynamics of the land surface, Medium Resolution Imaging...
The ontology contains langauges and their mappings to ISO 639 -1 and ISO 639-2 codes.