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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
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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
Temporal coverage
From 2005 on [In Progress]
Parameter
Geographic locations
Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, data creator, database developer, data manager
Vanhoorne, Bart
Hernandez, Francisco
Tyberghein, Lennert
Schepers, Lennert
Lonneville, Britt
Fernández Bejarano, Salvador Jesús
De Hauwere, Nathalie
Claus, Simon
Oset Garcia, Paula
Souza Dias, Francisco
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
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Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Literature research
Metadatarecord created: 2007-08-16
Information last updated: 2022-04-11
All data in the Integrated Marine Information System (IMIS) is subject to the VLIZ privacy policy