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Welcome to the permafrost vocabulary server. It provides access to permafrost-related vocabularies to promote re-use and increase interoperability of permafrost data.

How is that possible?

“Controlled vocabularies are used by data creators and data managers to standardise information. They are used for indexing and annotating data and associated information (metadata) in database and data files. They facilitate searching for data in web portals. They also enable records to be interpreted by computers. This opens up data sets to a whole world of possibilities for automated data workflows, computer aided manipulation, distribution, interoperability, and long-term reuse.” (British Oceanographic Data Centre)

Currently, there are two vocabularies available, the IPA Permafrost Glossary and the Landform list for the Canadian Permafrost Electrical Resistivity Survey (CPERS) Database.

Technical Details

This server uses VocPrez - a read-only web delivery system for Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS)-formulated RDF vocabularies.

See the About page for more information about VocPrez itself.

Vocabularies

Vocabularies (or ConceptSchemes) contain a hierarchical list of terms (or Concepts).

See the Vocabularies Register for a list of vocabularies this instance of VocPrez knows about.

Collections

Collections are a grouping of terms (or Concepts), represented as a flat listing of Concepts.

See the Collections page for a list of collections this instance of VocPrez knows about.

Concepts

Vocabulary terms (or Concepts) are listed within a vocabulary's home page. Each vocabulary presents both a concept hierarchy (tree) view and a link to a flat list of its concepts.

Search & Querying

You can search for Concepts within one vocab or across all vocabs using the Search page or perform SPARQL queries using the SPARQL page.

Acknowledgements

This server runs on resources provided by the Digital Research Alliance of Canada through a Research Platforms and Portals grant.