OGC Technical Committee Meeting National Resources and Environment Working Group 1 The JGOFS/GLOBEC Data Management System for Serving Physical and Biological Oceanographic Data and Plans to Enhance It Presented at the Open Geospatial Consortium Technical Committee Meeting – Natural Resources and Environment Working Group R.C. Groman, P.H. Wiebe, N.H. Vine and M.D. Allison 18 January 2005

OGC Technical Committee Meeting National Resources and Environment Working Group 2 Initial Goals To understand the population dynamics of key species in terms of their coupling to the physical environment and in terms of their predators and prey.

OGC Technical Committee Meeting National Resources and Environment Working Group 3 Ultimate Goal To be able to predict changes in the distribution and abundance of target species as a result of changes in their physical and biotic environment as well as to anticipate how their populations might respond to climate change.

OGC Technical Committee Meeting National Resources and Environment Working Group 4 US GLOBEC Georges Bank Southern Ocean Gulf of Alaska Northeast Pacific Program Multi-national participation

OGC Technical Committee Meeting National Resources and Environment Working Group 5 Key Data Policy Characteristics Dissemination to scientific investigators on a timely basis Available when "useful" Available to others outside the Program

OGC Technical Committee Meeting National Resources and Environment Working Group 6 Data and Information Field data Retrospective studies Laboratory experimental results Modeling data Information

OGC Technical Committee Meeting National Resources and Environment Working Group 7 Distributed

OGC Technical Committee Meeting National Resources and Environment Working Group 8 JGOFS/GLOBEC Data Management System Distributed data servers Web accessible Supports plotting and downloading

OGC Technical Committee Meeting National Resources and Environment Working Group 9 Developed by Flierl, et al. for US JGOFS Program Distributed data - client/server system Open access - read only Quality control on-going Emphasis on access to data and information as quickly as possible

OGC Technical Committee Meeting National Resources and Environment Working Group 10 Data Acknowledgement Policy Data sets being collected are most worthwhile in the context of all the other data sets being collected Investigators must respect the ownership of the data and should request permission to use data. Collaboration encouraged.

OGC Technical Committee Meeting National Resources and Environment Working Group 11 Object/Server Model The data object receives requests and responds with data; and a server connects applications to objects.data object server

OGC Technical Committee Meeting National Resources and Environment Working Group 12 Clients and Servers Browser application (Netscape, Internet Explorer, etc.) Platform independent More than just data served, information too Based on "http" protocol"http"

OGC Technical Committee Meeting National Resources and Environment Working Group 13 Centralized Starting Point GLOBEC machine at WHOIGLOBEC Directory shows data categories or hierarchyDirectory Encourages use of common field names (thesaurus)thesaurus

OGC Technical Committee Meeting National Resources and Environment Working Group 14 Example Start at home pagehome page Go to data directorydata directory Select data object Data selection and projection options Simple plots Download options

OGC Technical Committee Meeting National Resources and Environment Working Group 15 Enhancements  Improve the visual interface to the data (map versus tabular)  Retain “data driven” attribute of system

OGC Technical Committee Meeting National Resources and Environment Working Group 16 Map Tools Live Access Server (LAS) – used by US JGOFS ProgramLive Access Server (LAS) MapServer Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) Digital Earth

OGC Technical Committee Meeting National Resources and Environment Working Group 17 Web Based Data Access Tools WEBCOAST GoMOOS Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC) The Federation GIS Services Cluster Distributed Oceanographic Data System (DODS) PO.DAAC Ocean ESIP Tool (POET) Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS) EarthRef.org SIOExplorer Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Australian Spatial Data Directory (ASDD) United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Animated Earth (NASA)

OGC Technical Committee Meeting National Resources and Environment Working Group 18 Metadata and Data Access  Metadata currently presented as text via the web. Current plan is to convert to XML  Data access is via wget application or JGOFS/GLOBEC list application

OGC Technical Committee Meeting National Resources and Environment Working Group 19 Learning About Existing Standards ECS, FGDC, GCMD common metadataECS, FGDC, GCMD common metadata Mapping DIF to FGDC Mapping DIF to Dublin Core Guide to WMS

OGC Technical Committee Meeting National Resources and Environment Working Group 20 What’s Next  Implement metadata access via XML  Create WMS-based application to display data

OGC Technical Committee Meeting National Resources and Environment Working Group 21 Questions, Comments and Suggestions