2011 Unidata NetCDF Workshop > Best Practices
11.1 Some General Advice for Data Providers
A general list of maxims for data providers.
- Don't just provide visualizations, provide access to data
- And not just data, but also metadata
- And not just interactive access, but program access
- And not just local access or DVDs, but remote access
- And not just remote file access, but access via queries to subsets
and aggregations
- And not just for one platform or application, but compliant to standards
Scientists want to do science, not data management. Doing all of
the above is hard.
General advice: don't roll your own infrastructure
2011 Unidata NetCDF Workshop > Best Practices