%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Towards Linked Data Conventions for Delivery of Environmental Data Using netCDF
%+ Land and Water Flagship [Canberra]
%+ British Oceanographic Data Centre
%A Yu, Jonathan
%A Car, Nicholas, J.
%A Leadbetter, Adam
%A Simons, Bruce, A.
%A Cox, Simon, D.
%Z Part 2: Information Systems, Information Modelling and Semantics
%< avec comité de lecture
%( IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
%B 11th International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems (ISESS)
%C Melbourne, Australia
%Y Ralf Denzer
%Y Robert M. Argent
%Y Gerald Schimak
%Y Jiří Hřebíček
%I Springer
%3 Environmental Software Systems. Infrastructures, Services and Applications
%V AICT-448
%P 102-112
%8 2015-03-25
%D 2015
%R 10.1007/978-3-319-15994-2_9
%K netCDF
%K linked data
%K data discovery
%K environmental data
%Z Computer Science [cs]Conference papers
%X netCDF is a well-known and widely used format to exchange array-oriented scientific data such as grids and time-series. We describe a new convention for encoding netCDF based on Linked Data principles called netCDF-LD. netCDF-LD allows metadata elements, given as string values in current netCDF files, to be given as Linked Data objects. netCDF-LD allows precise semantics to be used for elements and expands the type options beyond lists of controlled terms. Using Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) for elements allows them to refer to other Linked Data resources for their type and descriptions. This enables improved data discovery through a generic mechanism for element type identification and adds element type expandability to new Linked Data resources as they become available. By following patterns already established for extending existing formats, netCDF-LD applications can take advantage of existing software for processing Linked Data and supporting more effective data discovery and integration across systems.
%G English
%Z TC 5
%Z WG 5.11
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01328530/document
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01328530/file/978-3-319-15994-2_9_Chapter.pdf
%L hal-01328530
%U https://inria.hal.science/hal-01328530
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