Research Vocabularies Australia

RVA

Australia

Research Vocabularies Australia helps you find, access, and reuse vocabularies for research.

NERC Vocabulary Server

NERC

UK/Europe

Provides access to lists of standardised terms that cover a broad spectrum of disciplines of relevance to the oceanographic and wider community.

Earth Science Information Partnership (ESIP) Community Ontology Repository

ESIP COR

USA

Consists of a deployment of the MMI Ontology Registry and Repository (ORR) software. ORR documentation can be found at https://mmisw.org/orrdoc/. The COR is available for any member of ESIP or the public to test the creation and management of Earth science ontologies and vocabularies.

United State Geological Survey Thesaurus

USGS Thesaurus

USA

The USGS Thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary providing category terms for scientific information products generated by the U.S. Geological Survey. It is designed as a formal thesaurus conforming to ANSI/NISO Z39.19, with rigid adherence to the hierarchical (BT, NT) term relationships, generic non-hierarchical (RT) relationships, and lead-in term relationships linking non-preferred terms to descriptors either singly (UF) or in a compound USE- WITH relationship.

ISO Multi-Lingual Glossary of Terms

Geo-lexica

Global

ISO/TC 211 Geolexica is the online glossary for geographic information technology from ISO/TC 211 Geographic information/Geomatics.

Terminology entries in Geolexica fully reflect entries given in the ISO/TC 211 Multi-Lingual Glossary of Terms (MLGT), where its authoritative English terms originate from ISO/TC 211 standards.

NASA Global Change Master Directory

GCMD

USA

Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keywords are a hierarchical set of controlled Earth Science vocabularies that help ensure Earth science data, services, and variables are described in a consistent and comprehensive manner and allow for the precise searching of metadata and subsequent retrieval of data, services, and variables.