On 19 April 2011 the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has approved netCDF as a standard:
- http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/1373
- http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/entry/open_geospatial_consortium_approves_netcdf
The netCDF library can be enabled with OPeNDAP, thereby allowing for easy remote "data cloud" access of large datasets. Please see thew following tutorial how to get started with using netCDF with OPeNDAP yourselves: http://public.deltares.nl/display/OET/web+overview+of+OPeNDAP+data
News items posted on the OpenEarth wiki are now automatically posted on the OpenEarth LinkedIn group:
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Join that group to stay informed and linked to other OpenEarth enthousiasts.
The IMBER secretariat (http://www.imber.info/index.html) has published the Data Management Cookbook, which is a very practical and informally written plea for datamanagement and personal data-responsiblity in a project team in sea going ocean sciences. If you replace 'cruise' by 'project' in the text, it holds for all projects we are dealing with.
Check it out: IMBER_cookbook_2011_Final.pdf