Open Earth Team, Deltares

Data sharing

Sharing data, tools and thoughts

A brief overview of possibilities

recently conducted by Deltares

Data sharing

• Sharing data gets more and more common• Various projects, both national (Dutch) as

international

• PMR-NCV

• Building with Nature

• VECTORS

• MESMA

• Monitoring zandmotor

• MEP duinen

• …

central storage

Data- vs streams of information

CLIENTviewer

SERVERdatabase

work done on server

graphics

standard data

raw data

tailored data

OPeNDAPRDBMS

WCSWFS

GeoServer

DataBaseWeb services files

ftphttpsvn

FEWS PostgreSQL

Cloud computing

Experts Smart phone ExecutableBrowser app

DataBaseRDBMS

PostGIS

work done on client

work done on server

Information data

WMSKML

Standardisation of data

Using international standards• WoRMS• CF• PESI• HILUCS• …

See for further possible standardshttp://publicwiki.deltares.nl/display/OET/Biological+databases+and+data+standards

Online database

• postgreSQL/PostGIS database• Combining data types

• Time series from observations

• Raster data as output of earth observation or model output

Timeseries + salinity maps combined

Geoserver as spider in the datacloud

geoserver

OGC CWS: Geonetwork

• EU INSPIRE directive• ISO meta-data

standards