HR: 15:10h
 AN: IN53C-07    [Abstracts]
 TI: Data Publishing and Sharing Via the THREDDS Data Repository
 AU: * Wilson, A
 EM: anne@unidata.ucar.edu
 AF: UCAR/Unidata, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, United States
AU: Caron, J
 EM: caron@unidata.ucar.edu
 AF: UCAR/Unidata, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, United States
AU: Davis, E
 EM: edavis@unidata.ucar.edu
 AF: UCAR/Unidata, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, United States
AU: Baltzer, T
 EM: tbaltzer@unidata.ucar.edu
 AF: UCAR/Unidata, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000, United States
AB: The terms "Team Science" and "Networked Science" have been coined to describe a virtual organization of researchers tied via some intellectual challenge, but often located in different organizations and locations. A critical component to these endeavors is publishing and sharing of content, including scientific data. Imagine pointing your web browser to a web page that interactively lets you upload data and metadata to a repository residing on a remote server, which can then be accessed by others in a secure fasion via the web. While any content can be added to this repository, it is designed particularly for storing and sharing scientific data and metadata. Server support includes uploading of data files that can subsequently be subsetted, aggregrated, and served in NetCDF or other scientific data formats. Metadata can be associated with the data and interactively edited. The THREDDS Data Repository (TDR) is a server that provides client initiated, on demand, location transparent storage for data of any type that can then be served by the THREDDS Data Server (TDS). The TDR provides functionality to: \item* securely store and "own" data files and associated metadata \item* upload files via HTTP and gridftp \item* upload a collection of data as single file \item* modify and restructure repository contents \item* incorporate metadata provided by the user \item* generate additional metadata programmatically \item* edit individual metadata elements The TDR can exist separately from a TDS, serving content via HTTP. Also, it can work in conjunction with the TDS, which includes functionality to provide: \item* access to data in a variety of formats via

  • -- OPeNDAP
  • -- OGC Web Coverage Service (for gridded datasets)
  • -- bulk HTTP file transfer \item* a NetCDF view of datasets in NetCDF, OPeNDAP, HDF-5, GRIB, and NEXRAD formats \item* serving of very large volume datasets, such as NEXRAD radar \item* aggregation into virtual datasets \item* subsetting via OPeNDAP and NetCDF Subsetting services This talk will discuss TDR/TDS capabilities as well as how users can install this software to create their own repositories.
    DE: 0434 Data sets
     DE: 0525 Data management
     SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
     MN: 2007 Fall Meeting