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

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)

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 ….”

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)

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.

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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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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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

JGOFS/GLOBEC Data Management System

http://globec.whoi.edu/map

Cruise Tracks

Select 5 Cruises

Click on “Show Data” Button

Select CD data in EN307

Shows stations and optional grid lines

EN307 graph it options

Depth versus salinity and versus temperature

Select another cruise: AL9906

Select MOC1 data set

Map it options for abundances

Graph it option for AL9906

MapServer supports

	Open Geospatial Consortium standard, including
	Web Mapping Service (WMS), and
		Show me the data
	Web Feature Service (WFS)
		Get me the data

Interoperability features (for free)

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