Welcome to the MACDDAP project

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Introduction

All text and images are taken from the MACDDAP Overview document by Ray Williams

The Marine and Climate Data Discovery and Access Project (MACDDAP) is an e-Research project, funded by the National eResearch Architecture Taskforce (NeAT) under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), with the objective to integrate the large marine and climate data sets currently distributed across Australian research institutions, using web services technology. The aim is to create a "virtual database" enabling researchers to collect, combine and analyse relevant data across scientific disciplines to facilitate knowledge discovery for marine- and climate-related applications.

MACDDAP consists of 7 component projects, as illustrated in Figure 1.

Figure 1 MACDDAP overview showing inter-linked projects 1 to 7.

The overall project will build on open scientific and geospatial data standards to enhance specialised web harvesters and search tools, enabling them to handle large geospatial data-sets, and it will create web services to deliver scientific data to users via appropriate web portals. To provide the functionality required to support these services, MACDDAP will also develop an aggregator for combining geospatial data from distributed sources and a translator for translating data sets into a single standard vocabulary widely used in meteorology and oceanography.

MACDDAP will make available, or will enhance the availability of, a number of major marine and climate data sets, including, in the first instance, the five data streams illustrated in Figure 2. It is anticipated that further data sets will be made available, via MACDDAP services, in the future.

Figure 2: Data sets that will have enhanced availability as a result of MACDDAP.

Projects

1. IMOS-GeoNetwork MEST Enhancements
2. TPAC Digital Library Enhancements
3. Aggregation Service
4. OPeNDAP-OGC Integration
5. OPeNDAP Enhancements
6. Translation Service
7. Deployment Services