<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-weight:400"><div class="gmail_extra" style="font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div><b>Topic</b>: Vocabularies Special Session</div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra" style="font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b><div>Time<span style="font-weight:400">: Thursday, 2021-02-11, 10:30 PST (17:30 UTC)</span></div></b></div></div></div></div></b></div><div><br></div><div>Hello all,<br></div><div><br></div><div>We hope you can make it to the Vocabularies Special Session call this Thursday. The call is scheduled for 90 minutes, which will consist of four informative 10 minute presentations followed by ample time for questions and discussion. </div><div><br></div><div><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:16pt;white-space:pre-wrap">Session abstract:</span><br></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-a8fe02ea-7fff-ae5c-86a3-e37b708396ec"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Standardizing naming conventions through controlled vocabularies is a fundamental component towards the greater goal of making data </span><a href="https://www.go-fair.org/fair-principles/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">FAIR</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.  Individual communities do a great job of developing vocabularies for their particular domains and leveraging these efforts allows data providers to address some interoperability issues.  Challenges still exist when data crosses domains or when vocabularies don’t cover all parameters in a dataset.  A lot of work has been done to address these issues but there is no ‘one size fits all’ solution.</span><span><br></span><span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The </span><a href="https://wiki.esipfed.org/MarineData" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Marine Data Cluster</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is hosting a special 90 minute call on the topic of vocabularies on February 11th at 13:30 EST.  We will start with an overview of the various vocabulary efforts going on throughout the community, with presentations from CF, NERC, GCMD, and WoRMS and follow up with discussion.  The goal is to highlight existing efforts, have a productive conversation about implementation and future efforts, and encourage collaboration.</span></span></blockquote></span></div><div><br></div><div>Also, please feel free to forward the invitation to anyone who might find it useful!<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div>MDC Admin</div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px">------------------------------------</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b><div style="font-weight:400"><b><u>Connection Information via GoToMeeting:</u></b></div><div style="font-weight:400"><b><div style="font-weight:400;display:inline">This group will convene every month on the second and fourth Thursday</div></b></div><div style="font-weight:400"><b><div style="font-weight:400;display:inline">10:30 AM Pacific Time, 1:30 PM Eastern Time, 17:30 UTC</div></b></div></b></div></div><div><br></div><div><span id="m_-3640486034538105182gmail-m_5104859755393146728gmail-m_181512182151028583gmail-m_3399841762714744378gmail-m_7156989410875588353gmail-m_4095785256961144319meeting-subject" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;font-family:lato-regular,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;font-weight:700;color:rgb(57,64,77)">Marine Data </span><span style="color:rgb(71,81,99);font-family:lato-regular,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"></span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br style="box-sizing:bord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