Through participation in ODF, the Swedish National Data Service's (SND) will implement machine-readable access to data files in SND’s research data catalogue. In a pilot-project with SMHI, we will use this functionality to trial sharing "self-describing" marine data files from SND to SMHI’s ERRDAP test-server.

“Self-describing” data files must contain sufficient metadata to create a dataset on the ERDDAP server without manual intervention.  NetCDF is the standard "self-describing" format for ocean data files, but our stakeholders also need support for a “text-based” format that can be edited using a text editor or spreadsheet.

In this webinar David Rayner will introduce the file format NCCSV - "NetCDF-Compatible ASCII CSV" - which we are proposing to recommend for sharing text-based marine data files.

About the Speaker

David Rayner is a Training Coordinator at SND. With a background in physics and earth-science research, he coordinates education ventures, and liaises with researchers and domain specialists to identify new functionality to support earth and environmental sciences.

About Ocean Data Factory Sweden

The mission of Ocean Data Factory - Sweden (ODFSweden) is to enable data-driven innovation by both commercial and non-commercial actors to ensure that the ocean and its resources are managed in the best possible and most sustainable way. ODF runs several in-house innovation projects, for example, the Koster Challenge, that combines citizen science with AI to explore Sweden’s marine biodiversity.

Zoom link

https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/5929167010
 

Contact: David Rayner, e-mail: david.rayner@snd.gu.se