Data Portals

• Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS)
• Atlantic Coastal Information Portal

Reports

• Data Management and Communications Plan for Research and Operational Integrated Ocean Observing Systems(DMAC)
• Center for Marine Biodiversity Technical Committee Report, December 2006
• NOAA's Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary's first-ever *Condition Report*, a "report card" on the status of sanctuary resources, the impending release of the draft management plan which we anticipate will be available for public comment in the early summer. The documents can be accessed at http://stellwagen.noaa.gov.
• The Centre for Marine Biodiversity Technical committee activity report: http://www.marinebiodiversity.ca/cmb/groups/tc/CMBTC%20-%20May%2031%2C%2007.pdf/view
  

Northeast Regional Association (NERACOOS) Activities

• NERACOOS.org
  

Tools

Experience Inventory Resource Tool: If you are looking for help from a partner with expertise a particular area, use this online data entry/search tool created by partnership member Bob Groman. The database is keyword searchable, and will return a list of names and contact information for partners with expertise in the area you are looking for (keywords such as: http, FDCG, java, etc).
Click here to access this resource: http://gomodp.whoi.edu

Metadata

Data Transport Protocols

Acronym Glossary

Acronym	Definition
ANSI	American National Standards Institute
API	Application Programming Interface
ASCII	American Standard Code for Information Interchange
AUV	autonomous underwater vehicles
BIO	Bedford Institute of Oceanography
CCT	Center for Computation & Technology (at LSU http://www.cct.lsu.edu/)
CDL	network Common Data form Language , see entry for NetCDF?
CRS	coordinate reference system
CSDL	Coast Survey Development Laboratory
CSI	Coastal Studies Institute (at LSU http://www.csi.lsu.edu/)
DBMS	Database management system
DIGEST	Digital Geographic Exchange Standard
ECN	European Committee for Normalization
EEA	European Environment Agency
FEMA	Federal Emergency Management Agency
FGDC	Federal Geographic Data Committee (http://www.fgdc.gov/)
GCMD	Global Change Master Directory (http://gcmd.nasa.gov/)
GIS	Geographic Information System
GML	Geography Markup Language
GPS	Global Positioning System
IIF	Image Interchange Format
IOOS	integrated and sustained ocean observing system (http://www.ocean.us/)
ISO	International Organization for Standardization
ITSC	Information Technology and Systems Center (at UAH http://www.itsc.uah.edu/)
LBS	Location Based Services or Location Services
LDM	LDM is Unidata's Local Data Manager
LOF	Location Organizer Folder
MMI	Multi-Hazard Mapping Initiative
NCSA	National Center for Supercomputing Applications
NetCDF	network Common Data Form file format for binary files (http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/netcdf/conventions.html)
NOAA	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (http://www.noaa.gov)
NSDI	National Spatial Data Infrastructure
NSIF	NATO Secondary Imagery Format
NYHOPS	New York Harbor Observing and Prediction System (http://onr.dl.stevens-tech.edu/NYHOPS/)
OGC	Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.
ONR	Office of Naval Research
OOS	Ocean Observing System
OpenIOOS	http://www.openioos.org/
OSF	Open Software Foundation
OWS	OGC Web Services
SCORE	Services & Catalog for Ocean Regional Environments
SOAP	Simple Object Access Protocol
Simple Object Access Protocol, a method invented by Microsoft to use RPC over the internet via HTTP calls. SOAP is now published as an W3C Note and implemented, among others, as part of the Apache XML Project." SOAP is a protocol specification that defines a uniform way of passing XML-encoded data. It also defines a way to perform remote procedure calls (RPCs) using HTTP as the underlying communication protocol. Development of SOAP is in the care of the W3C`s XML Protocols Working Group.
SQL	Structured Query Language
USGS	United States Geological Survey
W3C	World Wide Web Consortium
WCS	Web Coverage Service
Supports the networked interchange of geospatial data as "coverages" containing values or properties of geographic locations. Unlike the Web Map Service, which returns static maps (server-rendered as pictures), the Web Coverage Service provides access to intact (unrendered) geospatial information
WFS	Web Feature Service
OpenGIS Specification that supports INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, QUERY and DISCOVERY of geographic features. WFS delivers GML representations of simple geospatial features in response to queries from HTTP clients. Clients access geographic feature data through WFS by submitting a request for just those features that are needed for an application.
WMS	Web Mapping Service
OpenGIS Specification that standardizes the way in which Web clients request maps. Clients request maps from a WMS instance in terms of named layers and provide parameters such as the size of the returned map as well as the spatial reference system to be used in drawing the map.
XML	eXtensible Markup Language
XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is the predominant form for interoperable, self-describing data/content, in combination with XML schema definition language. See http://www.w3.org/XML/. XML has its roots in SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup Language (an ISO standard). The development of XML came about because of perceived limitations in HTML when used as a tool for publishing complex documents on the Web. http://www.w3.org.

For a more complete list of acronyms, see the DMAC report Acronym Glossary:

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