1 SIMDAT SIMDAT demonstration – TECO/WIS 7 Nov SIMDAT: Presentation of the demonstration Baudouin Raoult Coordinator, SIMDAT Meteo Activity ECMWF
2 SIMDAT SIMDAT demonstration – TECO/WIS 7 Nov SIMDAT Project EU funded project -4 Activities: Aero, Pharma, Automotive and Meteo Meteorology activity of SIMDAT: -5 Partners: DWD, Meteo-France, UKMO, EUMETSAT and ECMWF Coordination and main developments: ECMWF Distribution of the SIMDAT software -Contract with the EU, already specifies that the software will be made available to the entire WMO community -Wider distribution, looking at an Open Source licence An evaluation copy can be requested from ECMWF
3 SIMDAT SIMDAT demonstration – TECO/WIS 7 Nov Focus on usability Usability from an end-user point of view -Portal based on concepts used by major search engines: no learning necessary Usability from a data publisher point of view -Effort to minimise prerequisite technological knowledge (Metadata, XML, …)
4 SIMDAT SIMDAT demonstration – TECO/WIS 7 Nov Finding data Google like search -Fast: people are now used get results in a few milliseconds -Scoring: people are used to find the most relevant hits in the first result page Yahoo like directory -Datasets can be categorized -A dataset can be in several categories at once
5 SIMDAT SIMDAT demonstration – TECO/WIS 7 Nov Searching…
6 SIMDAT SIMDAT demonstration – TECO/WIS 7 Nov Search results
7 SIMDAT SIMDAT demonstration – TECO/WIS 7 Nov Category browsing
8 SIMDAT SIMDAT demonstration – TECO/WIS 7 Nov Legible metadata
9 SIMDAT SIMDAT demonstration – TECO/WIS 7 Nov Multiple data types support
10 SIMDAT SIMDAT demonstration – TECO/WIS 7 Nov From architecture to usage
11 SIMDAT SIMDAT demonstration – TECO/WIS 7 Nov How to publish data in SIMDAT Download the software Install the node and the portal (optional) -Open some ports -Edit the configuration file -Start the software Install the data repository -Edit the configuration file -Start the software Edit some metadata files to describes your datasets -Drop the files in a directory Write a shell script that translate SIMDAT requests into requests to your existing database
12 SIMDAT SIMDAT demonstration – TECO/WIS 7 Nov Demonstration setup
13 SIMDAT SIMDAT demonstration – TECO/WIS 7 Nov Data available in demonstrator BoMNWP outputs, ObservationsGRIB, ASCII CMANWP output, satellite dataGRIB, BUFR DWDClimate Time Series, NWP outputsXML, HTML, GRIB ECMWFNWP outputs (ERA15, ERA40, TIGGE), Sample GTS observations (1 day) GRIB1, GRIB2, BUFR, PDF EUMETSATMETEOSAT 8 imagesJPEG JMANWP outputs, MTSAT images, Observations GRIB, BUFR, animated GIFs KMAClimate Time Series, NWP outputsXML, GRIB Météo FranceNWP outputs Real-time GTS dataGRIB, ASCII NCAR~ 6000 datasetsNetCDF, other RNODCOceanographic data (BATHY, SHIP, TESAC) ASCII UKMOAviation data (METAR, TAF)XML
14 SIMDAT SIMDAT demonstration – TECO/WIS 7 Nov Demo Start...
15 SIMDAT SIMDAT demonstration – TECO/WIS 7 Nov Support of WIS requirements Routine collection of observation dataWork in progress. Automated dissemination of all observed data and products, both real ‑ time and non real-time : Push model Work in progress. Ad-hoc requests for data and products : Pull model Done. Support of different user profiles and data policies Work in progress. Support of data and network securityDone. Based on SSL Support the integration of diverse datasetsDone. Support for Any data type, from any data repository. Reliable infrastructureDone. Technologically sustainable and appropriate to local expertise Done. Based on Standards. Run on a PC. Open Source components. Modular, flexible and scalableDone.
16 SIMDAT SIMDAT demonstration – TECO/WIS 7 Nov Acknowledgements People that made this demonstrator possible: -Beatriz Garcia (EUMETSAT ) - Brad Moody (UKMO) -Ha-young Oh (KMA)- Helmut Ackermann (DWD) -Jacques Roumilhac (Meteo France)- Marta Gutierrez (ECMWF) -Michael Burek (NCAR) - Nobue Kishi (JMA) -Weiqing Qu (BoM) - Sergey Belov (RNODC) -Zhou Zhengrong (CMA) Special thanks to: -Guillaume Aubert (ECMWF) -Matteo Dell’Acqua (Meteo France) -Dong-il Lee (KMA)
17 SIMDAT SIMDAT demonstration – TECO/WIS 7 Nov Demonstration See you tomorrow morning …