The OpenEarth philosophy related to data involves that important data sets, rather than working on a project-by-project basis, should be collected and be made available in a project superceding manner:
- imporant datasets should be stored and made available easily via webbased interfaces
- data products should include all necessary metadata
To achieve this international standards are embraced like:
- NetCDF
- CF parameter meta-data
- EPSG
- Spatial meta-data codes
- INSPIRE owner meta-data
- OPeNDAP (as running operationally for Rijkswaterstaat MATROOS), and
- opengis
- web map services (WMS,
- web coverage services WCS, and
- web feature services WFS).
The data collection procedure and the relation between those standards is explained in the figure below and in the Micore Data Standards document.
