Data Integration

To accomplish the project’s data integration goals, NERACOOS is working in coordination with members of the Gulf of Maine Ocean Data Partnership (http://www.gomodp.org/ - newly renamed to the Northeast Coastal and Ocean Data Partnership or NECODP) to make the regional data sets discoverable, accessible and interoperable in accord with DMAC-endorsed protocols.

This effort has been focused in three core areas, all of which leverage other federal and State sources of funds: advancing regional data integration and interoperability, working with end users and regional scientists to implement priority products, and maintaining existing data-delivery capabilities to serve regional end users.

NERACOOS partners are participating in national data integration initiatives:

OOSTethys - A community of software developers and marine scientists developing open source tools to integrate ocean observing systems with a goal to dramatically reduce the time it takes to install, adopt and update standards-compliant web services. This project develops easy-to-use reference implementations for standards based data sharing capacity, consistent with the NOAA Data Integration Framework (DIF) and the IOOS DMAC guidance. On OOSTethys.org, data providers can ownload server-side software and cookbooks to make data interoperable.
Gulf of Maine Model Interoperability Experiment - A pilot project to show how existing NetCDF model output generated by partner institutions can be brought into CF-Compliance via NcML and made accessible to the scientist's desktop via standards-based tools.
OpenIOOS - An integrated open ocean observing testbed, that demonstrates a working prototyps of data providers serving real-time observations via SOS (Sensor Observation Service).
Q2O - a WHOI-led initiative to establish QA/QC standards for application in OGC-compliant web services
The OGC OCEANS IE - an interoperability experiment evaluating and developing best practices documentation and reference implementations for OGC standards WFS (Web Feature Service) and SOS (Sensor Observation Service).
Participation in national Data Management and Communications (DMAC) activities to help define and advance NOAA/IOOS DMAC and NOAA/IOOS Data Integration Framework (DIF) efforts with technologies and approaches that can be applied to other regional efforts with national initiatives.
Participation in NOAA/IOOS Web Services Data Encoding (WSDE) Working Group.

NERACOOS Data Integration Partners:

Gulf of Maine Ocean Data Partnership (GoMODP)
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®)
OOSTethys
SURA
GoMOOS
USGS
UMass Dartmouth - Oceanographic Modeling and Analysis Laboratory
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - WHOI

As our eyes on the oceans, coasts, and Great Lakes, the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS®) is a tool for tracking, predicting, managing, and adapting to changes in our marine environment. IOOS® delivers the data and information needed to increase our understanding of our coastal waters so decision makers can take action to improve safety, enhance our economy, and protect our environment. NERACOOS is one of 11 Regional Associations contributing to coastal IOOS, coordinated by NOAA IOOS and assisted by the National Federation of Regional Associations (NFRA).

Website developed and hosted by The Gulf of Maine Research Institute

Regional Coastal Observing Systems: Alaska • Pacific Northwest • Central and Northern California • Southern California • Pacific Islands • Great Lakes • Atlantic-Northeast • Mid-Atlantic • Atlantic-Southeast • Gulf of Mexico • Caribbean • National Federation of Regional Associations for Coastal and Ocean Observing

National Observing System Partners: Alliance for Coastal Technologies (ACT) • Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA)

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