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:

  • important datasets should be stored and made available easily via webbased interfaces
  • data transformation scripts should be subjected to version control
  • data products should include all necessary metadata

To achieve this international standards are embraced like:

The data collection procedure and the relation between those standards is explained in the OpenEarth Data Standards document, developed in the framework of the EU FP7 Project MICORE. 

| {lozenge:icon=!OpenEarth^lozenges.png!|title=Data standards|link=Data Collection Protocol|color=green|width=280px}OpenEarth data collection protocol {lozenge}|
| {lozenge:icon=!OpenEarth^lozenges.png!|title=Tutorials|link=OpenEarth tutorials|color=green|width=280px}OpenEarth Tutorials{lozenge}|
| {lozenge:icon=!OpenEarth^lozenges.png!|title=OpenEarthRawData|link=https://repos.deltares.nl/repos/OpenEarthRawData|color=green|width=280px}Store your raw data here{lozenge}|
| {lozenge:icon=!OpenEarth^lozenges.png!|title=OpenDAP (*production*)|link=http://micore.wldelft.nl/opendap|color=green|width=280px}Access data using the OpenDAP protocol{lozenge}|
| {lozenge:icon=!OpenEarth^lozenges.png!|title=OpenDAP (*test*)|link=http://dtvirt5.deltares.nl:8080/thredds|color=green|width=280px}Access data using the OpenDAP protocol{lozenge}|
| {lozenge:icon=!OpenEarth^lozenges.png!|title=GeoServer (*experimental*)|link=http://dtvirt5.deltares.nl:8080/geoserver |color=green|width=280px}Access data using the WMS and WFS services {lozenge}|