Goals for Unidata data access infrastructure

26.0 Goals for Unidata data access infrastructure

The next 5 years will be challenging for Unidata's data access infrastructure efforts.

Our efforts will be focused on incremental innovations to

Manage a graceful transition from a simple data model (netCDF-3) to the enhanced Common Data Model of netCDF-4
Provide better support for remote access and server-side data manipulation
Respond to the need to faithfully represent observational data as well as gridded data
Scale up to handle larger volumes of data efficiently
Provide effective support to a larger netCDF user community as users of satellite products, GIS, and other analysis and visualization software make use of growing archives of netCDF data.