In partnership with OPeNDAP Inc., Unidata has received a three-year award grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in order to better align, link and eventually integrate software that the two organizations independently offer as extensible, open-source infrastructure for scientific data exchange.
The OPeNDAP-Unidata Linked Servers project (OPULS) aims to adapt OPeNDAP and Unidata server systems for greater conformance, linkage, and eventual integration, along the way demonstrating how one group can capitalize on advances achieved by the other.
Indexed data access exposes the physical schema of datasets and makes violations of the relationship between coordinate and indices commonplace for datasets that change, such as aggregations of rolling archives. Making data requests in coordinate space will be added to the next generation of data access protocols, partly in order to solve this problem.
