approved term lists
MEDIN uses a variety of term lists some of which are managed by us and some managed by others. Some of the most common are given below.
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• The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) which is an authoritative taxonomic list of species occurring in the marine environment and should be used by MEDIN partners • EPSG Coordinate Reference System Geodetic Parameter Register which describes coordinate reference systems • Parameter vocabularies which are at 2 different levels – the MEDIN parameter discipline which describes 12 broad disciplines and the SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary which describe fine-grained related groups of measurements and has ~380 terms. These are available here as vocabs P231 and P021 respectively. • SeaRegions used in MEDIN are recommended to be from the ‘SeaVox salt and fresh water body gazetteer’ available as list C191 here. |
Many other vocabularies are used throughout the MEDIN Data Guidelines. Primarily these are available through 4 different routes:
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1) The NERC ‘vocab server’ which allows other applications to directly link into the term lists using web services 2) The SeaDataNet vocab service which contains a user friendly interface and subset of the NERC vocabs. In particular the parameter groups and codes may be searched through a dynamic hierarchical interface. 3) Term lists are also available from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) 4) Further controlled vocabularies used in the heritage sector can be accessed here. |
