HR: 14:40h
AN: SF33B-05 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: The Data System Integrator: The OPeNDAP Data Connector
AU: * Cornillon, P
EM: pcornillon@gso.uri.edu
AF: Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI 02882 United States
AU: Chamberlain, J
EM: jchamberlain@opendap.org
AF: OPeNDAP, 165 Dean Knauss Drive, Narragansett, RI 02882 United States
AU: Holloway, D
EM: dholloway@gso.uri.edu
AF: Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI 02882 United States
AB: The notion of an end-to-end data system has become blurred in today's rapidly evolving environment of distributed data system elements. In this presentation, we investigate the data system integrator as the defining element of an end-to-end data system. The data system integrator provides data discovery and delivery within the user's analysis environment. The data system integrator may reside at a remote site - a web-based data portal - or it may reside on the user's computer. The OPeNDAP Data Connector (ODC), an example of the latter, will be used to demonstrate issues related to the construction of a data system integrator. The ODC is a standalone Java program that provides access to several different data discovery services as well as to the OPeNDAP-accessible data listed by these services. It can also interface to analysis applications. In addition to the different access protocols required to query remote directories and to access data from server sites, the ODC also understands several different inventory mechanisms such as GrADS Data Server (GDS) data set lists and THREDDS (Thematic Realtime Environmental Distributed Data Services) catalogs. The ODC is available under the download tab on the OPeNDAP web site: http://opendap.org.
DE: 9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields
SC: Special Focus: Advances in Data Acquisition, Management, Analysis and Display [SF]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting