Data Management

The Carocoops data management effort will support the modeling and analysis communities by providing tools and infrastructure for metadata, data and quality assurance/quality control(QA/QC) processes. Real-time reporting will be provided for current buoy conditions to the research and public communities via internet access. This information as well as other research datasets will be saved into searchable archives. The initial formats of these datasets will be a varied mixture of flat-file and relational database formats, but metadata and data conventions should allow uniform access from a user perspective.

Data Management Tools used by Caro-COOPS

• Bulletin Board - a bulletin board for community discussion and exchange on a variety of topics
• TWiki - Twikis are a flexible, powerful, secure, yet simple web-based collaboration platform. Also for community discussion and exchange on a variety of topics
• DODS - an open source software solution that makes remote scientific data accessible to data analysis and visualization packages
• netCDF - an interface for array-oriented data access; authored by Unidata
• ncBrowse - a Java application that provides flexible, interactive graphical displays of data and attributes from a netCDF data files
• MapServer - an open source development environment for building spatially enabled Internet applications; authored by the University of Minnesota
• MapLab - a suite of Web-based, open source tools that simplifies the process of deploying MapServer Web mapping applications; authored by DM Solutions Group
• phpBB - an open source software solution for creating community bulletin boards
• RedHat - an open source Linux distribution