Implementing Dapper for in-situ profile data

[Joe Sirott]

Hi Mike,

Another possibility -- have you spoken to Thomas Loubrieu at Coriolis 
about their Dapper compliant server (at http://www.ifremer.fr/dap4cor/ 
<http://www.ifremer.fr/dap4cor/>) ? I believe that they store all of 
their data in an Oracle database. I'm not sure if the software is 
publicly available or not.

- Joe

McCann, Mike wrote:
> DODS techies,
>
> The discussion over the dapper specification has been interesting to follow.
>
> I would like to contribute to the discussion, but feel that I need some experience with implementing a server for our data which reside in a relational database.  
>
> I know that I could extract the data into EPIC-compliant netCDF files and load them into dapper with dapperload.sh, but am hoping that there might be a better way.  I've experimented a bit with the OPeNDAP DRDS server but don't see how I can write a das/dds to mimic the dapper spec, viz:
>
>   
>> -------------------------------
>>
>> Profile / Sounding Collection: (same as Dapper "CTD measurements" example)
>>
>>  Sequence {
>>   lat, lon, time;
>>   id;       
>>   Sequence {
>>     z;		
>>     v1, v2, ...
>>   } obs;             
>>  } profile;         
>>
>> -------------------------------
>>     
>
>
> Is this possible with DRDS?  Or, is the reason there is so much discussion regarding the spec is that this capability is in the process of being implemented?
>
> Some guidance would be welcome and I'd be glad to contribute if I can.
>
> -Mike
>
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