[Tdwg-obs] more on observation standards

[Jerry Cooper]

Hi all,
 
I'm enclosing an email that Flip Dibner sent me during the TDWG meeting on the OGC effort in the area of 'observations and measurements'.
Follow the links below to the documentation.
I think they have come up a well though out  generalized model that encompasses most of the scenarios I can think of. Perhaps the only down side is the work necessary to pack/unpack data into this form, i.e. as a data exchange standard it looks great, but as an easily understandable working tool it looks heavy.
 
Jerry
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Jerry,
 
You can download OGC's O&M Recommendation from their Recommendation 
Papers page at http://www.opengeospatial.org/specs/?page=recommendation 
.   The direct download link is 
http://portal.opengeospatial.org/files/?artifact_id=1324 .  I would 
draw your attention in particular to Appendix C.5., Ecological Survey.
 
There is more recent information that I think will accommodate even 
more of our needs, but I don't have as well organized, and the newest
bits are not yet public.  I will pull all this together for the sake of 
the group at large, as suggested by Stan.
 
Flip
 

Phillip C. Dibner
Ecosystem Associates
(650) 948-3537
(650) 948-7895 Fax 


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