Data interoperability between elements of the global ocean observing system

Derrick P. Snowden; Vardis Tsontos; Nils Olav Handegard; Marcos Zarate; Kevin M. O'Brien; Kenneth S. Casey; Neville Smith; Helge Sagen; Kathleen Bailey; Mirtha Lewis; Sean Arms

doi:10.3389/fmars.2019.00442

Data interoperability between elements of the global ocean observing system

Derrick P. Snowden
, Vardis Tsontos
, Nils Olav Handegard
, Marcos Zarate
, Kevin M. O'Brien
, Kenneth S. Casey
, Neville Smith
, Helge Sagen
, Kathleen Bailey
, Mirtha Lewis
, Sean Arms

Unidata Program Center

U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Institute of Marine Research
Centro Para el Estudio de Sistemas Marinos (CONICET)
University of Washington
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
GODAE OceanView

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Abstract

The data management landscape associated with the Global Ocean Observing System is distributed, complex, and only loosely coordinated. Yet interoperability across this distributed landscape is essential to enable data to be reused, preserved, and integrated and to minimize costs in the process. A building block for a distributed system in which component systems can exchange and understand information is standardization of data formats, distribution protocols, and metadata. By reviewing several data management use cases we attempt to characterize the current state of ocean data interoperability and make suggestions for continued evolution of the interoperability standards underpinning the data system. We reaffirm the technical data standard recommendations from previous OceanObs conferences and suggest incremental improvements to them that can help the GOOS data system address the significant challenges that remain in order to develop a truly multidisciplinary data system.

Original language	English
Article number	442
Journal	Frontiers in Marine Science
Volume	6
Issue number	JUL
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00442
State	Published - 2019

Keywords

Data lifecycle
Data management
Data preservation
Interoperability
Metadata
Standards

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