| List key | Long name | Short name | List version | List last modified |
| C161 | International Hydrographic Bureau (1953) sea areas | IHB Sea Areas | 8 | 2010-10-05T01:00:08 |
| Terms used for sea areas from International Hydrographic Bureau, Limits of Oceans and Seas (Special Publication No. 23), 3rd edition 1953. |
| C162 | SeaDataNet sea area extensions | Sea area extensions | 8 | 2010-10-05T01:00:08 |
| Sea area terms added to the IHB(1953) list under SeaDataNet governance until the proposed hierarchical SeaVox sea area gazetteer is available |
| C16 | SeaDataNet sea areas | SeaDataNet sea areas | 8 | 2010-10-05T01:00:08 |
| SeaDataNet sea areas |
| C173 | Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean ships of interest | POGO ships | 189 | 2012-02-01T02:00:05 |
| Research vessels deemed to be of interest to POGO. 'Of interest' is defined as active ocean-going research vessels greater than 60m in length |
| C174 | SeaDataNet Cruise Summary Report ship metadata | SDN CSR ships | 189 | 2012-02-01T02:00:05 |
| Ship instances (a hull operating under a given name and governance type) used in SeaDataNet CSR forms including metadata in the definition to allow reliable mapping to ship hull databases. |
| C17 | ICES Platform Codes | ICES Platform Codes | 189 | 2012-02-01T02:00:05 |
| ICES Platform Codes |
| C191 | SeaVoX salt and fresh water body gazetteer | SeaVoX water bodies | 11 | 2012-01-18T02:00:05 |
| Terms specified by the SeaVoX vocabulary governance to describe coherent regions of the hydrosphere. Includes land masses enclosing freshwater bodies. |
| C320 | International Standards Organisation countries | ISO countries | 6 | 2011-12-15T02:00:06 |
| ISO country codes from ISO3166-1 list taken from www.iso.org on 16/08/2011. |
| C321 | International Standards Organisation deprecated country codes | ISO deprecated countries | 6 | 2011-12-15T02:00:06 |
| Deprecated ISO country codes from the ISO3166-3 list. |
| C322 | International Standards Organisation country code nulls | ISO country nulls | 6 | 2011-12-15T02:00:06 |
| Terms used to populate fields normally populated by ISO country codes in cases where the information is unknown or populating the field is considered inappropriate |
| C32 | International Standards Organisation countries | International Standards Organisation countries | 6 | 2011-12-15T02:00:06 |
| International Standards Organisation countries |
| C342 | Monitoring activity rationale | Monitoring rationale | 4 | 2011-08-27T01:00:05 |
| Terms describing the reasons why a monitoring activity was undertaken. |
| C351 | European Nature Information System Level 3 Habitats | EUNIS3 Habitats | 1 | 2010-02-19T02:01:37 |
| Medium-granularity (hierarchical level 3 of 5) terms describing the environment associated with an activity from a biological perspective. |
| C361 | Monitoring activity legislative drivers | Monitoring drivers | 6 | 2011-08-27T01:00:05 |
| Legislative acts, agreements and treaties that have provided the impetus for monitoring activities to be undertaken. |
| C371 | Ten-degree Marsden Squares | Marsden-10 | 3 | 2009-01-09T02:00:05 |
| Labels applied to areas of ten degrees latitude by ten degrees longitude in the Marsden Square system. |
| C372 | Five-degree Marsden Squares | Marsden-5 | 3 | 2009-01-09T02:00:05 |
| Labels applied to areas of five degrees latitude by five degrees longitude in the Marsden Square system. |
| C373 | One-degree Marsden Squares | Marsden-1 | 3 | 2009-01-09T02:00:05 |
| Labels applied to areas of one degree latitude by one degree longitude in the Marsden Square system. |
| C37 | Marsden Squares | Marsden Squares | 3 | 2009-01-09T02:00:05 |
| Marsden Squares |
| C381 | Ports Gazetteer | Ports Gazetteer | 31 | 2011-11-30T02:00:05 |
| Geographic locations from which a cruise may begin or end |
| C382 | Ports Gazetteer Deprecated Entries | Deprecated Ports | 31 | 2011-11-30T02:00:05 |
| Entries that have been defined in the C381 cruise start and end point gazetteer, but have been deprecated. |
| C38 | SeaDataNet Ports Gazetteer | SeaDataNet Ports Gazetteer | 31 | 2011-11-30T02:00:05 |
| SeaDataNet Ports Gazetteer |
| C450 | Marine Strategy Framework Directive descriptors | MSFD descriptors | 1 | 2010-11-11T02:00:07 |
| Concepts specified as descriptors of good environmental status as defined by the Marine Strategy Framework Directive |
| C460 | Marine Strategy Framework Directive criteria | MSFD criteria | 1 | 2010-11-11T02:00:07 |
| Concepts specified as criteria to be used to measure good environmental status as defined by the Marine Strategy Framework Directive |
| C470 | Marine Strategy Framework Directive indicators | MSFD indicators | 1 | 2010-11-11T02:00:07 |
| Concepts specified as indicators to be used to measure good environmental status as defined by the Marine Strategy Framework Directive |
| C771 | SeaDataNet Cruise Summary Report data categories | SeaDataNet CSR data categories | 3 | 2011-12-09T02:00:14 |
| Terms used to describe shipboard activities (sometimes inaccurately described as parameters) by SeaDataNet in Cruise Summary Report (formerly known as ROSCOP) metadata. |
| C779 | SeaDataNet Cruise Summary Report data category deprecates | SeaDataNet CSR data category deprecates | 3 | 2011-12-09T02:00:14 |
| Deprecated terms used to describe shipboard activities (sometimes inaccurately described as parameters) by SeaDataNet in Cruise Summary Report (formerly known as ROSCOP) metadata. |
| C77 | SeaDataNet Cruise Summary Report data categories | SeaDataNet Cruise Summary Report data categories | 3 | 2011-12-09T02:00:14 |
| SeaDataNet Cruise Summary Report data categories |
| C865 | SeaDataNet Contact Roles | SeaDataNet Contact Roles | 4 | 2011-01-20T02:00:00 |
| Terms used to define the responsibilities for a contact (person or organisation) either within the SeaDataNet project or for the datasets described by SeaDataNet metadata. |
| C866 | SeaDataNet security access control roles | SeaDataNet security roles | 4 | 2011-01-20T02:00:00 |
| Terms used by the SeaDataNet project to describe roles associated with access rights to data, metadata and project information. |
| C86 | Role Definitions | Role Definitions | 4 | 2011-01-20T02:00:00 |
| Role Definitions |
| C970 | NERC Vocabulary Server mappings index | NVS mappings | 325 | 2012-02-01T02:00:05 |
| A catalogue of the mappings between vocabularies held in the NERC Vocabulary Server. |
| GS30 | Geo-Seas adjusted Folk sediment lithology classes | Adjusted Folk classes | 1 | 2010-10-15T01:00:11 |
| Terms used to categorise sedimentary rocks and sediments in terms of the proportion of gravel, sand and mud. Initial terms proposed by Folk (1954) but subsequently revised by BGS and Flemming (2000) |
| GS40 | Geo-Seas geological sample colours | Geo-Seas colours | 3 | 2011-03-09T02:00:05 |
| Terms used to describe rock and sediment colour in Geo-Seas based on the CGI GeologicUnitExposureColorTerms (https://www.seegrid.csiro.au/wiki/pub/CGIModel/GeologicUnitExposureColorTerms/Color.xls) |
| GS50 | Geo-Seas sediment grain-size skewness descriptors | Geo-Seas skewness descriptors | 1 | 2010-10-15T01:00:11 |
| Terms used to describe sediment grain-size skewness coefficients in the Geo-Seas project |
| GS60 | Geo-Seas sediment grain-size kurtosos descriptors | Geo-Seas kurtosis descriptors | 1 | 2010-10-15T01:00:11 |
| Terms used to describe sediment grain-size kurtosis coefficients in the Geo-Seas project |
| GS80 | Geo-Seas Seismic Methods | Seismic Methods | 1 | 2011-01-29T02:00:05 |
| Concepts that describe techniques used in fieldwork in the geophysical discipline of seismics |
| GS90 | Geo-Seas Seismic Survey Dimensionality | Seismic Dimensionality | 1 | 2011-01-29T02:00:05 |
| Concepts that describe dimensionality of field surveys in the geophysical discipline of seismics |
| GSA0 | Geo-Seas Seismic Data Product Types | Seismic Data Products | 1 | 2011-01-29T02:00:05 |
| Concepts that describe standard types of data product produced in the geophysical discipline of seismics |
| GSB0 | Geo-Seas Seismic Receiver Types | Seismic Receivers | 1 | 2011-01-29T02:00:05 |
| Concepts that describe instrument types used to measure reflected and refracted acoustic signals in the geophysical discipline of seismics |
| GSC0 | MGD77 Bathymetry Sound Velocity Correction Codes | MGD77 bathymetry corrections | 1 | 2011-03-05T02:00:05 |
| Terms used to describe sound velocity correction applied to bathymetric data in the MGD77 format |
| L021 | SeaDataNet Geospatial Feature Types | SeaDataNet Geospatial Feature Types | 1 | 2007-12-20T02:00:05 |
| SeaDataNet profile of ISO MD_GeometricObjectTypeCodeTerms code list. Known in SEA-SEARCH as 'Library 2' or cdi_measurement_codes. |
| L031 | SeaDataNet Measurement Periodicity Categories | SeaDataNet Measurement Periodicity | 3 | 2011-08-27T01:00:05 |
| Terms used to express a classification of measurement periodicity in the SeaDataNet project. |
| L051 | SeaDataNet sample collector categories | Sample collectors | 25 | 2011-11-27T02:00:07 |
| Terms used to describe groups of devices that collect water, suspended matter, sediment, rock, air or biota samples. |
| L052 | SeaDataNet sample processor categories | Sample processors | 25 | 2011-11-27T02:00:07 |
| Terms used to describe groups of devices that are used to modify water, suspended matter, sediment, rock, air or biota samples prior to analysis. |
| L053 | SeaDataNet sample analyser categories | Sample analysers | 25 | 2011-11-27T02:00:07 |
| Terms used to describe groups of laboratory instruments that are used to analyse water, suspended matter, sediment, rock, air or biota samples. |
| L054 | SeaDataNet sensor and instrument package categories | Sensors and packages | 25 | 2011-11-27T02:00:07 |
| Terms used to describe groups of sensors or packages that make physical, chemical, biological or geological measurements in place in the field. |
| L055 | SeaDataNet remote sensor categories | Remote sensors | 25 | 2011-11-27T02:00:07 |
| Terms used to describe groups of devices that take images of the environment or make measurements in the field without making contact with the measured entity. |
| L056 | SeaDataNet positioning system categories | Positioning systems | 25 | 2011-11-27T02:00:07 |
| Terms used to describe groups of devices that determine the spatial location of a platform |
| L057 | SeaDataNet seismic source types | Seismic sources | 25 | 2011-11-27T02:00:07 |
| Terms used to describe types of energy source for seismic refraction and reflection measurements |
| L05 | SeaDataNet device categories | SeaDataNet device categories | 25 | 2011-11-27T02:00:07 |
| SeaDataNet device categories |
| L061 | SeaVoX Platform Classes | SeaVoX Platform Classes | 7 | 2008-12-05T02:00:04 |
| Grouping terms used for vehicles, objects, structures or organisms capable of bearing instruments or tools for the collection of physical, chemical, geological or biological samples and data. |
| L062 | SeaVoX Platform Class Categories | SeaVoX Platform Class Categories | 7 | 2008-12-05T02:00:04 |
| Classification terms for the grouping terms contained in the SeaVoX Platform Classes vocabulary |
| L06 | SeaVoX Platform Categories | SeaVoX Platform Categories | 7 | 2008-12-05T02:00:04 |
| SeaVoX Platform Categories |
| L071 | SeaDataNet data access mechanisms | SeaDataNet data access | 1 | 2007-02-16T16:59:36 |
| Terms for mechanisms by which data objects described by SeaDataNet Central Data Index (CDI) records may be obtained before SeaDataNet is fully implemented. |
| L081 | SeaDataNet Data Access Restriction Policies | SeaDataNet Data Access Policies | 2 | 2008-09-26T01:00:06 |
| Terms used to represent and classify data access policies in operation in the SeaDataNet project |
| L101 | SeaDataNet geographic co-ordinate reference frames | SeaDataNet CRS | 3 | 2011-03-03T02:00:05 |
| Co-ordinate reference systems used for positions (latitude/longitude or grid references) in SeaDataNet metadata. May include 3D co-ordinate systems, but not vertical elevation datums like OD Newlyn. |
| L111 | SeaDataNet depth measurement reference planes | SeaDataNet datum origins | 7 | 2011-08-27T01:00:05 |
| Terms used to describe the zero point for vertical co-ordinate reference systems (datums). |
| L121 | SeaDataNet parameter quality control procedures | SeaDataNet QC procedures | 2 | 2010-02-13T02:01:36 |
| Terms that are used to describe quality control procedures applied to data parameters. |
| L131 | SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages | SeaVoX Vertical Coverages | 3 | 2010-05-18T01:00:18 |
| Terms used to describe data coverage over the vertical (z) co-ordinate. |
| L141 | SeaDataNet Activity Operational Stati | SeaDataNet Activity Operational Stati | 2 | 2007-05-18T05:45:02 |
| Terms used to describe the operational status of data collection activities within the SeaDataNet project. |
| L151 | SeaDataNet quality management system accreditations | SDN QMS accreditations | 2 | 2011-03-25T02:00:06 |
| Terms used to describe formally recognised standards for data acquisition and handling procedures. |
| L181 | SeaDataNet Cruise Summary Report quantification units | CSR units | 1 | 2007-11-14T18:33:35 |
| Terms used as units in the quantification of what was collected or measured in a Cruise Summary Report (ROSCOP) record. |
| L191 | SeaDataNet keyword types | SDN keyword types | 1 | 2008-01-17T02:00:03 |
| Terms used in SeaDataNet metadata to describe the purpose of a keyword. An extension of the ISO19115 KeywordTypeCode codelist. |
| L201 | SeaDataNet measurand qualifier flags | SeaDataNet flags | 3 | 2009-05-13T01:00:03 |
| Flags used to provide additional information, usually referring to data quality, about data values in SeaDataNet data files. |
| L211 | SeaDataNet device category types | Device category types | 3 | 2011-09-17T01:00:07 |
| High-level classification of devices based on function and mode of deployment. |
| L221 | SeaVoX Device Catalogue | SeaVoX Device Catalogue | 51 | 2012-01-27T02:00:04 |
| Terms for distinct sampling or measuring devices that may be identified in the real world in terms of manufacturer and model number. |
| L231 | SeaDataNet metadata entities | SDN metadata entities | 6 | 2012-01-18T02:00:05 |
| Types of metadata record in the SeaDataNet metadata catalogue repositories |
| L241 | SeaDataNet data transport formats | SDN formats | 2 | 2010-06-17T01:00:25 |
| Formats used for data delivery by SeaDataNet |
| L260 | EDIOS permitted sampling interval units | EDIOS sampling units | 0 | 2011-10-26T23:00:00 |
| Units of measure (P06 subset) that may be used for sampling intervals in the EDIOS metadata schema. Required to prevent times with units of kilograms! |
| L300 | MEDATLAS Data Centres | MEDATLAS Centres | 2 | 2008-11-26T02:00:04 |
| Organisations supplying or holding data concerned with the EU MEDATLAS project. |
| L311 | Geo-Seas data object quality flags | Geo-Seas object flags | 1 | 2010-09-22T01:00:05 |
| Flags representing concepts used to specify quality of Geo-Seas data objects. These are a subset of SeaDataNet measurand qualifier flags. |
| P011 | BODC Parameter Usage Vocabulary | BODC PUV | 312 | 2012-02-01T02:00:05 |
| Terms built using the BODC parameter semantic model designed to descibe individual measured phenomena. May be used to mark up sets of data such as a NetCDF array or spreadsheet column. |
| P021 | SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary | SeaDataNet PDV | 70 | 2011-10-28T01:00:06 |
| Terms describing fine-grained related groups of measurement phenomena designed to be used in dataset discovery interfaces. |
| P022 | SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary deprecates | SeaDataNet PDV deprecates | 70 | 2011-10-28T01:00:06 |
| Deprecated terms describing fine-grained related groups of measured phenomena designed to be used in dataset discovery interfaces. |
| P02 | SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary | SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary | 70 | 2011-10-28T01:00:06 |
| SeaDataNet Parameter Discovery Vocabulary |
| P031 | SeaDataNet Agreed Parameter Groups | SeaDataNet APG | 21 | 2011-07-28T01:00:05 |
| Terms agreed within the EU SeaDataNet community to describe coarse-grained groupings of related measurement phenomena. |
| P032 | SeaDataNet Agreed Parameter Group deprecates | SeaDataNet APG deprecates | 21 | 2011-07-28T01:00:05 |
| Deprecated terms agreed within the EU SeaDataNet community to describe coarse-grained groupings of related measurement phenomena. |
| P03 | SeaDataNet Agreed Parameter Groups | SeaDataNet Agreed Parameter Groups | 21 | 2011-07-28T01:00:05 |
| SeaDataNet Agreed Parameter Groups |
| P041 | Global Change Master Directory Science Keywords | GCMD Science Keywords | 4 | 2007-04-18T13:55:46 |
| Concatenated category, topic, term and variable separated by '>'. From Olsen L.M. et. al (2006) NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords Version 5.3.3. |
| P042 | Global Change Master Directory deprecated Science Keywords | GCMD deprecated Science Keywords | 4 | 2007-04-18T13:55:46 |
| Concatenated category, topic, term and variable separated by chevrons that were formerly in a published version of GCMD Earth Science Keywords. |
| P04 | Global Change Master Directory Science Keywords | Global Change Master Directory Science Keywords | 4 | 2007-04-18T13:55:46 |
| Global Change Master Directory Science Keywords |
| P051 | International Standards Organisation ISO19115 Topic Categories | ISO Topic Categories | 0 | 2005-04-27T23:00:00 |
| Terms defined by ISO describing data themes. Used to populate the mandatory ISO19115 topic category field. |
| P061 | BODC data storage units | BODC units | 39 | 2011-11-26T02:00:06 |
| Terms used by BODC to describe the measurement units for data held in its repositories. |
| P071 | Climate and Forecast Standard Names | CF Standard Names | 18 | 2011-07-22T01:00:05 |
| Terms used for definitive but not necessarily comprehensive descriptions of measured phenomena in the CF conventions (a content standard for data stored in NetCDF). |
| P072 | Climate and Forecast deprecated Standard Names | CF deprecated Standard Names | 18 | 2011-07-22T01:00:05 |
| Terms used for definitive descriptions of measured phenomena in the CF conventions (NetCDF content standard) that have been replaced by other terms. |
| P07 | Climate and Forecast Standard Names | Climate and Forecast Standard Names | 18 | 2011-07-22T01:00:05 |
| Climate and Forecast Standard Names |
| P081 | SeaDataNet Parameter Disciplines | SeaDataNet Disciplines | 3 | 2008-05-01T01:00:03 |
| Terms used to classify SeaDataNet Agreed Parameter Groups to provide topic/theme level terms in a hierarchical parameter discovery interface |
| P091 | MEDATLAS Parameter Usage Vocabulary | MEDATLAS PUV | 40 | 2012-01-11T07:46:54 |
| Terms under the content governance of SISMER used to describe measured phenomena within the MEDATLAS project. |
| P092 | MEDATLAS Parameter Usage Vocabulary deprecated terms | MEDATLAS PUV deprecates | 40 | 2012-01-11T07:46:54 |
| Terms formerly used to describe parameters in the MEDATLAS data format that have subsequently been withdrawn. |
| P09 | MEDATLAS Parameter Usage Vocabulary | MEDATLAS Parameter Usage Vocabulary | 40 | 2012-01-11T07:46:54 |
| MEDATLAS Parameter Usage Vocabulary |
| P220 | INSPIRE themes | INSPIRE themes | 1 | 2009-07-31T01:00:56 |
| Groupings of spatial data according to Annex I, II and III of the INSPIRE Directive [DS-D2.5] |
| S250 | BODC parameter semantic model biological entity names | Biological entity names | 24 | 2012-01-19T02:00:05 |
| Terms used to describe biological entities (organisms or parts thereof) in the BODC Parameter Usage Vocabulary |