1	GoMODP, Data Interoperability and the MapServer Interface to U.S. GLOBEC Data Presented at the U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank 2007 Phase 4B Scientific Investigators’ Meeting 23 – 24 April 2007 Robert C. Groman
2	Overview Gulf of Maine Ocean Data Partnership (GoMODP) and related Northeast Regional Coastal Ocean Observing System (NERACOOS) efforts Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) MapServer interface and interoperability enhancements for the U.S. GLOBEC Data System (JGOFS/GLOBEC)
3	GoMODP “… to promote and coordinate the sharing, linking, electronic dissemination, and use of data on the Gulf of Maine region. “ “… linking databases that are created and individually maintained by Participants ….” “… develops the web-based, visualization, and other information technologies needed for the seamless exchange ….”
4	Membership – 24 members Executive Committee: David Mountain (NMFS), Evan Richert (USM), Philip Bogden (GoMOOS), Deb Soule (NH Dept. Env. Services), Bob Branton (BIO), Linda Mercer (Maine Dept. Marine Resources), Dan Sampson (MA Coastal Zone Mgt) Technical Committee: Deb Soule (chair)
5	Technical Committee Activities (Report from Chair) Partner table of expertise - S. Most has been gathering completed surveys from the partners. Bob G. developed a web site to add, query and review the partner records. 2) Dataset accessibility survey - An accessibility survey format has been created by the subcommittee. Many of the partner’s data links identified through a previous survey and through the GoMODP portal have been reviewed. This is still a work in progress. 3) Update technical guidance - Thanks to Anne and Lou, a section on registering metadata records with the GeoSpatial One-Stop was added to the technical guidance. In the first version, we only had a placeholder for this info. The revised version of the technical guidance is on the GoMODP web site: http://www.gomodp.org/technical-committee. 4) Participate in pilot projects - We may be taking another look at the monitoring location project in light of the IOOS Regional Observation Registry (http://oceanobs.org/wc/). Stay tuned for details. 5) Other - Are we interested in NOAA’s Data Transport Library (DTL) - http://www.csc.noaa.gov/DTL? Anne Ball will discuss this when we next have a conference call.
6	NERACOOS Evan Richert (chair), Philip Bogden (GoMOOS), Janet Cambell (UNH), David Mountain, Neal Pettigrew (UMaine), John Trowbridge (WHOI), Robert Weller (WHOI) Purpose: “… formation of a Regional Association (RA) for the Northeast region “ Advisory Committee created (20 members) and others to address governance issues, etc.
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8	BCO-DMO NSF funded 3 year project to provide short and medium term data management, including web based access, to all NSF funded projects from the biological and chemical oceanographic programs Large NSF projects are expected to have their own data management offices Web site: http://www.bco-dmo.org/
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10	MapServer data and metadata interface provides access to geo-referenced scientific data presents distributed data sets in a unified way uses MapServer as the visualization application visualize data with on-the-fly graphics request custom subsets of variables in a variety of file formats access background reference material (metadata) compare variables from distributed sources
11	JGOFS/GLOBEC Data Management System
12	http://globec.whoi.edu/map
13	Cruise Tracks
14	Select 5 Cruises
15	Click on “Show Data” Button
16	Select CD data in EN307
17	Shows stations and optional grid lines
18	EN307 graph it options
19	Depth versus salinity and versus temperature
20	Select another cruise: AL9906
21	Select MOC1 data set
22	Map it options for abundances
23	Graph it option for AL9906
24	MapServer supports Open Geospatial Consortium standard, including Web Mapping Service (WMS), and Show me the data Web Feature Service (WFS) Get me the data
25	Interoperability features (for free)
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