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Here's a pdf paper describing international efforts to develop and
standardize.  It is from 2002, lots of resources discussed, and a link 
(needs password, sorry) to the Marine Environmental Data (MEDI) DTD. It
look like a good starting point if you can follow up on the metadata
research these organizations have done in the past few years.

http://www.jodc.go.jp/info/ioc_doc/Other/C1202.pdf

Ned Bedinger
doc@e...


> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re:  Standard DTDs/Templates
> From: Mitch Amiano <mitch.amiano@a...>
> Date: Fri, June 16, 2006 11:59 am
> To: Parang Saraf <parang.saraf@g...>
> Cc: xml-dev@l...
> 
> Perhaps there are other standards bodies that deal with this, but here 
> is a starting point.
> A quick Google turned up US Government activity in this area.
> http://geology.usgs.gov/tools/metadata/standard/metadata.html
> 
> Parang Saraf wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > I am relatively new in the XML field. I am designing a database for a 
> > project on the events recorded from oceans.
> >
> > Someone told me that there is an international agency that has defined 
> > some standard DTDs/Templates for XML and one should design the 
> > database according to them. My database is storing information 
> > obtained from buoys located at the Gulf of Maine and the information 
> > is like salanity at different depths, wind speed and direction, 
> > pressure at different depths etc.
> >
> > I did some google searching but was not able to find anything related 
> > to this. It would be a great help if you could provide me with a link 
> > to the site where they store such information or the name of the 
> > agency or something helpful.
> >
> > Thanks and Regards
> > Parang Saraf
> > parang.saraf@g... <mailto:parang.saraf@g...>
> 
> 
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