Fisheries Oceanography Collaboration Software

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Fisheries Oceanography Collaboration Software

• Donald DenboNOAA/PMEL-UW/JISAO
• Nancy Soreide
• NOAA/PMEL

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Introduction

• The Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated
  Investigations (FOCI) is an interdisciplinary
  program seeking to understand the influence of
  the environment on commercially valuable fish and
  shellfish stocks in Alaskan waters.
• FOCI scientists need a system that will enable
  them to effectively collaborate despite their
  geographical separation.
• To meet these needs we have chosen to enhance the
  existing OceanShare/Climate Data Portal software
  and develop the Secure Document Repository (SDR).

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OceanShare

• Interactive and collaborative environment for
  data exploration
• Uniform access to multiple geographically
  distributed data archives
• Interactive Java graphics
• Integration of data from local and remote data
  archives
• Interactive annotation of data
• Highlight individual plots
• add text, arrows, lines, etc
• User interaction with the data
• Dynamic query of data values and metadata
• Graphics zoom capability with automatic rescaling
  of axes

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OceanShare Design
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Climate Data Portal

• Objective
• Unified, networked access to geographically
  distributed data from Observing Systems and
  Historical Data Archives (focus on in situ data)
• Method
• Integrate several new, modern and proven,
  off-the-shelf network-based applications and
  technology developments
• CORBA Data Server
• Interactive, Java Scientific Graphics Toolkit
• Interactive Java tools selecting data from large
  in situ data collections ndEdit Java utility
• LDAP Directory Services
• XML Automated metadata generation tool

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CDP in situ Data Collections

• Data presently available
• TAO El Nino buoy data (realtime) PMEL
• Global sea level data (realtime) University of
  Hawaii
• Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Program
  (GTSPP) NODC
• PMEL hydrographic data collection PMEL
• World Ocean Database 1998 NODC/PMEL

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Design Goals

• Enhance OceanShare
• Integrate ndEdit data selection tool
• Implement textual and graphical annotation tools
• Extend data handling to include time series and
  gridded data
• Implement session save and restore.
• Secure location to share documents, data, images,
  and collaborative sessions.
• Access control by individual document and/or
  folder
• Easy administration of privileges
• Document version control

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Approach
Use software components and infrastructure
available from previous development efforts and
the open source community

• Climate Data Portal
• ndEdit data selection tool
• Climate data servers
• Distributed data via objects
• OceanShare collaborative application
• SGT flexible and interactive graphics
• Jakarta Project http based servers

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Secure Document Repository (SDR)

• Uses industry standard WebDAV protocol
• Custom Java applications to down/up load
  documents and set file/directory protections
• Commercial applications available to access
  WebDAV repository
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0
• MacOS X
• Dreamweaver
• Adobe Acrobat 5
• Microsoft Office 2000

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SDR Design
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Technologies Utilized

• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
• Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA)
• Java language
• Habanero collaborative framework
• Tomcat servlet container
• Slide content management framework
• Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning
  (WebDAV)

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NOAA/PMEL Technologies Utilized

• NOAAServer
• OceanShare
• Scientific Graphics Toolkit (SGT)
• EPIC Management, display, and analysis of
  geophysical data.
• Climate Data Portal (CDP)

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Future Directions

• Implement document version control when available
  in Jakarta-Slide
• Data analysis capabilities added to OceanShare
• Project management (e.g. time line, task flow)
• Instrumentation access
• Advanced visualizations (e.g. VRML, area and
  contour plotting, GIS maps)