Due to the current gap in continued funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program Center has temporarily paused most operations. See NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations for details.
Due to the current gap in continued funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program Center has temporarily paused most operations. See NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations for details.
Greetings,Next Tuesday, 22 September 2009 at 1:30 p.m. MDT, Ben Domenico from the Unidata Program Center will take center stage to present a Webcast seminar. Please check the URL below for Webcast information and if you miss it, you can tune in later for the archived version, along with the posted PP slides.
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/community/seminars/ Abstract:The Unidata Outreach Activities with a Focus on International Standards Related to Atmospheric Data Access
Ben Domenico, Unidata Program Center Tuesday, 22 September 2009 1:30 p.m. MST Unidata Conference Room, FL4, 1318 AbstractFrom the earliest stages, there has been strong interest in Unidata tools and data services from outside the core community of US academic departments in the atmospheric sciences. In particular, the disciplines "at the margins" of the core community: oceanography, hydrology, environmental science, ecology, etc. have participated in the program at various levels over the years. Recent developments in the area of web services hold out the hope of making the data systems of these disciplines interoperable without each group having to adopt the internal systems of the others in order to make use of their data.
Several international standards groups are working on conventions, protocols and interfaces that foster such interoperability and hence have a bearing on our ability to make atmospheric data available to other communities. This is especially true for the groups who have traditionally used GIS tools, e.g, hydrology, biogeosciences, societal impacts and hazard response. These standards organizations include ISO, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) as well as the members of our own community involved in OPeNDAP, the Climate and Forecast Conventions, and the evolution of the netCDF. This talk provides an overview of the efforts underway and a recap of recent progress.
A special effort will be made to indicate how these efforts tie in with those of the other groups within Unidata.
Thanks for your interest! Linda -- Linda Miller - lmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Community Services, Unidata University Corporation for Atmospheric Research P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307-3000303-497-8646 fax: 303-497-8690
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