Supporting Documents

This page lists a series of documents being developed to assist contributors in providing data and metadata.

Limiting Access to Sensitive Data in CoRIS
Technical Guidelines for Metadata Preparation
Keywords Used in Metadata
Metadata Examples
Basic FGDC ASCII Template
Metadata Crosswalk
CoRIS Development

Policy Document: Limiting Access to Sensitive Data in CoRIS

This policy document outlines the process, criteria, and types of access from the Coral Reef Information System (CoRIS) for specific types of coral research data that require limited access, as defined by the Coral Reef Conservation Program. View the policy document here (pdf, 108kb).

Technical Guidelines for Metadata Preparation

Technical Guidelines for Metadata Preparation, Version 4.1. April 2007 (pdf, 301kb)

This document provides an overview of the CoRIS project and the importance of metadata to CoRIS. It outlines CoRIS required metadata elements, presents guidelines and instructions for completing metadata fields, provides sample metadata, and contains ASCII metadata templates for CoRIS as well as for the full FGDC (Federal Geographic Data Committee) standard. It also provides links to Web sites with metadata standards and tools for working with metadata.

Keywords Used in Metadata

These documents contain lists of keywords used in metadata to help describe coral reef data sets. The lists are useful in creating metadata and in searching for coral reef data and information.

Theme Keywords

CoRIS Theme Keywords (pdf,47 kb)

Discovery Keywords

CoRIS Discovery Keywords (pdf, 14 kb)

Place Keywords

• Atlantic Ocean – Country/Territory (pdf, 90kb)
• Atlantic Ocean – Ocean/Seas (pdf, 96kb)
• Indian Ocean – Country/Territory (pdf, 92kb)
• Indian Ocean – Ocean/Seas (pdf, 93kb)
• Pacific Ocean Great Barrier Reef – Country/Territory (pdf, 103kb)
• Pacific Ocean Great Barrier Reef – Ocean/Seas (pdf, 234kb)
• Pacific Ocean other than Great Barrier Reef – Country/Territory (pdf, 167kb)
• Pacific Ocean other than Great Barrier Reef – Ocean/Seas (pdf, 144kb)

Metadata Examples

Several CoRIS metadata records are presented as examples for different data types.

• Aerial Photography Photomosaic Benthic Habitat (pdf, 41 kb)
• Benthic Habitat Type Map (pdf, 57 kb)
• Biological Non-Indigenous Species (pdf, 66 kb)
• Gridded Bathymetry (pdf, 31 kb)
• Habitat Monitoring and Assessment (pdf, 71 kb)
• Near Real Time Meteorological and Oceanographic Observations (pdf, 23 kb)
• Remote Sensing Imagery for Visual Interpretation (pdf, 36 kb)
• Satellite Remote Sensing of Near Real Time Coral Thermal Stress (pdf,52 kb)
• Submersible Dive Biological Observations (pdf, 74 kb)
• Surface Velocity Profiling Drifters (pdf, 23 kb)
• Oceanographic and Meteorological Time Series (pdf, 23 kb)
• Water Quality Monitoring (pdf, 52 kb)

FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata ASCII Template

The basic FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata ASCII Template (pdf, 152 kb) is provided as an aid to persons preparing metadata. The document illustrates how the various metadata elements are related and can be used with a text editor to prepare metadata.

Metadata Crosswalk

The relationship between the FGDC, MARC21, and Dublin Core metadata standards are presented in the Metadata Crosswalk (pdf, 756 kb).

CoRIS Development

The following documents provide additional background context of the early stages of CoRIS development:

• NOAA Coral Reef Data and Information IT Working Group Workshop Report, March 20-21, 2001 (pdf, 60 kb)
• Report of the NOAA Coral Reef IT Working Group Workshop, June 12-14, 2001 (pdf, 112 kb)

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