Project Information

Title: A Comprehensive, Web-accessible, Geo-referenced Metadatabase of Marine-related Physical and Biological Databases of the Northern GOA 040716

Project Year and Number: 2004: 040716

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: None

Principal Investigator (PI): Allen Macklin (NOAA )

Managing Agency: NOAA

Assisting Personnel: None

Research Location: Seattle, WA

Restoration Category: Research

Injured Resources Addressed: Not Specified

Abstract: This project will adapt for GEM purposes the North Pacific Ecosystem Metadatabase (NPEM, http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/np/mdb/) that has served information via the World-Wide Web since 1998. The adaptation will be a web-accessible metadatabase of marine science databases of the northern Gulf of Alaska. Appropriate records from the NPEM will be transferred to the GEM metadatabase, and additional records pertaining to GEM, PICES, NPRB, UAF/IMS, GLOBEC, FOCI, and similar research efforts will be added. Metadata will be coded to the FGDC standard using the 26 elements specified by MetaLite. As possible, metadata will include thematic, semantic and syntactic descriptors. This utility will include filtering capabilities to extract from existing metadata records those specific to the regions, habitat types, and subject areas defined by the working concepts of the GEM Science Plan. Compound searches of the metadatabase will allow selection of records by time, space, keyword, text string, etc., and results will be ranked according to their agreement with the search criteria. Work will be accomplished over a three-year period in Seattle, Washington.


Proposal: View (1,269 KB)

Information and/or Products produced by this project:
Title Description Type Document(s)
Metadata Information •NGOA metadatabase, in Oracle and MS Access formats, containing 231 metadata records of the datasets collected within or including the GEM region of interest in the Gulf of Alaska. •Java program to read data from the NGOA metadatabase and to automatically generate EML-compliant metadata documents in XML format. •231 EML-compliant metadata documents automatically generated using the Java program software for EML-based metadata file generation. •Methodology for EML-based metadata relevancy evaluation. •Java program to score metadata for relevancy based on EML elements. •231 metadata score reports and one metadata evaluation summary report automatically generated using the Java program software for metadata relevancy evaluation. Other View (1,001 KB)

Reports:
Final Report: View (277 KB)

Publications from this Project: None Available