NERC Data Grid

Welcome to the home of NDG's vocabulary server

For information on the services, please go to the British Oceanographic Data Centre's Web Services.

Version 1.0

The WSDL is available at

• http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/VocabServerAPI.wsdl (RPC/encoded)
• http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/VocabServerAPI_dl.wsdl (Document/literal wrapped)

Available client:

• vocabServer.jsp — includes whatListsCat, whatLists, verifyTerm, searchVocab and getList

Version 1.1

The WSDL is available at

• http://vocab.ndg.nerc.ac.uk/1.1/VocabServerAPI_dl.wsdl (Document/literal wrapped)

Available clients:

• Method calls
  • whatLists (catalogue of lists available on server)
  • getList (access to a specified list, including subsets)
  • searchVocab (search for occurrencies of text strings in entries)
  • verifyTerm (metadata entry checker)
  • whatListsCat (catalogue of list categories available on the server)
  • getMap (access to full mappings between lists)
• Semantic search client
  • getRelated

© NERC, 2009. Last updated April 6, 2009