Engineering Data Interoperability with Coastal Ocean Data Collection Systems

The ocean observing community has been moving toward a web service based architecture, using community-developed standards to integrate data from distributed sensors and sub-systems into centralized portals and decision-support tools for a variety of end users.

For the last few years, the Ocean Data Products team at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute has worked on a variety of initiatives at the regional and national level aimed at improving accessibility, discoverability and interoperability of marine and environmental data. These efforts include the evaluation and adoption of community-developed metadata, schema and web service standards to facilitate the exchange of data.

The highlights of these efforts will be reviewed along with a demonstration of several web-based applications that utilize web services to integrate real-time observation and modeling data.  We will discuss lessons learned as well as potential opportunities for use of these data sources and standards in the development of applications for the fisheries community.