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Presented at the U.S. GLOBEC Northeast Pacific
Scientific Investigator Meeting |
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Robert C. Groman |
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10-12
January 2006 |
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U.S. GLOBEC Program Office and Data Management
Office for Georges Bank |
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DMO supports NEP and SO Projects |
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NEP responsibilities shared with H. Batchelder |
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Follow the data button |
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Support for investigators at geographically
different sites |
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Client support for most (all?) computing
platforms (PC, Macintosh, Unix, Linux) – Web based, using standard browsers |
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Distributed data servers |
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Data contributor directly controls data |
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Always up to date |
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Easier to grow computing resources |
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But, can
also use a central facility if one wishes |
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Dissemination to scientific investigators on a
timely basis |
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Data served when "useful" |
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Available to others outside the Program |
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Data use must follow data acknowledgement policy |
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Handle data, model output and images |
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Relationship to OPeNDAP (DODS) and value added
web sites |
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What’s a data object? |
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What are methods? |
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Default method (defgb) |
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Restructuring (rs) |
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Combining with Perl scripts |
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Metadata is crucial for others to be able to use
other investigator’s data. |
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This information comes from the contributing
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To see the metadata, click on the text in the last
column of the directory or on the “Documentation” button. |
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Consistent field names |
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You may get a call from George H. |
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Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) and Directory Interchange Format (DIF)
record (for data discovery) |
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Enhancing JGOFS/GLOBEC software to use XML-based
“info” file |
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Selecting just the field names you want |
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Try an on-line example |
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Selecting out data with certain values |
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temp < 4 and depth > 120 |
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taxon contains calanus |
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Try an on-line example |
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Set up by DMO several years ago. |
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DMAG advises DMO on issues such as field names
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units. |
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Membership: D. Allison, H. Batchelder, J.
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C. Flagg, K. Garrison, R. Goldsmith, B. Groman, |
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G. Heimerdinger, E. Hofmann, S. Howard, J.
Manning, |
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W. Sass, P. Smith |
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GeoZui3D |
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EZGZ interface between JGOFS/GLOBEC and GeoZui3D |
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EasyKrig (download) |
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Digitizer application |
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Acoustic backscatter data (curtain plots) |
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Arbitrarily spaced scalar & vector data |
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Axes, labels, grids, bounding boxes |
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Underlying bathymetry surfaces |
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Multiple color maps for each object |
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Point-and-click object identification |
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3D thumbnails and list boxes for easier
selection and previewing of variables |
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Notes
