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Marine Regions gazetteer Citable as data publication Flanders Marine Institute (2022). Marine Regions gazetteer. Available online at www.marineregions.org. Consulted on yyyy-mm-dd. https://doi.org/10.14284/561 Contact: Availability:  This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description The Marine Regions gazetteer is a standard list of marine geographical place names and locations with associated information on the geographical location of these entities. more The Marine Regions gazetteer is a standard list of marine geographical place names and locations. Objects from different sources (authoritative databases, ecological classifications,...) are integrated into one database. Where possible, the geometry of these sources is included and displayed in the gazetteer. In addition, conceptual information (e.g. type of object) is added to the objects, and they are included in a hierarchy. Each object is assigned a unique ID (MRGID), which allows for unambiguous reference to the objects. The Marine Regions gazetteer is part of the LifeWatch project, and serves as a geographical basis for biodiversity databases, global fisheries research and maritime applications, among other things. In addition, the data was released as a Linked Data Event Stream in July 2021. Scope Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Charts (maps), Event stream, Gazetteers, Geographical names, Geography, Information systems, Linked data, Marine, Open science, Semantic web, Planet Geographical coverage Planet [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage From 2005 on [In Progress] Parameter Geographic locations Contributors Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, data creator, database developer, data manager Related datasets (Partly) included in: MarineRegions.org, more Project MRG: Marine Regions, towards a standard for georeferenced marine names, more Publication Describing this dataset Lonneville, B. et al. (2021). Publishing the Marine Regions Gazetteer as a Linked Data Event Stream, in: Algergawy, A. et al. S4BioDiv 2021: 3rd International Workshop on Semantics for Biodiversity, held at JOWO 2021: Episode VII The Bolzano Summer of Knowledge, September 11–18, 2021, Bolzano, Italy. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2969: pp. [1-12], more Claus, S. et al. (2014). Marine Regions: towards a global standard for georeferenced marine names and boundaries. Mar. Geod. 37(2): 99-125. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01490419.2014.902881, more Claus, S. et al. (2006). Developments and geographic interface of the VLIMAR gazetteer, in: Mees, J. et al. (Ed.) VLIZ Young Scientists' Day, Brugge, Belgium 31 March 2006: book of abstracts. VLIZ Special Publication, 30: pp. 25, more Claus, S. et al. (2005). The VLIMAR gazetteer, in: Mees, J. et al. VLIZ Young Scientists' Day, Brugge, Belgium 25 February 2005: book of abstracts. VLIZ Special Publication, 20: pp. 23, more Dataset status: In Progress Data type: Data Data origin: Literature research Metadatarecord created: 2007-08-16 Information last updated: 2022-04-11 | ||||
