Earth Science Data: Search and sharing

[James Gallagher]

On Oct 3, 2006, at 6:40 AM, Paulo Ricardo Motta Gomes wrote:

> Hello James,
>
> First of all, thank you for the interest.
>
> We're currently working with GrADS data, and the GrADS-DODS server  
> is the only OPeNDAP server that supports this format, that's why  
> the first version of our tool is attached to GDS. However our  
> intension is to provide support to other OPeNDAP servers, so we  
> might be working on that on our next steps. DIFBuilder will evolve  
> to a web-interface where the users will be able to generate  
> metadata from any OPeNDAP server.

This sounds great. Where can I get information abut the input files  
that DIFBuilder uses?

James
>
>
> []'s
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> Paulo Ricardo Motta Gomes
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> OPeNDAP Meta Finder Team
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>
>
> James Gallagher escreveu:
>> Jose,
>>
>> This looks really great!
>>
>> I haven't used the DIFBuilder tool yet, so this question might be  
>> premature, but why is the search system limited to the GrADS-DODS  
>> server? Is that because the GDS is used to serve the DIF information?
>>
>> James
>>
>> On Oct 2, 2006, at 8:48 AM, Jose Flavio / Projeto SegHidro wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings to everyone,
>>>
>>> We are from the Distributed Systems Lab of UFCG, Brazil. We are  
>>> developing a dataset search engine for data stored on OpENDAP  
>>> servers and we  would appreciate to have your collaboration in  
>>> order to improve and evolve the system.
>>>
>>> Our tool is called OPeNDAP Meta Finder, and its beta version can  
>>> be accessed through http://opendapmetafinder.lsd.ufcg.edu.br . In  
>>> this site can be found information on how to search for datasets  
>>> and how to make your own datasets available for searching. Try it  
>>> on!
>>>
>>> If your institution is an environmental data providers, publishes  
>>> data through OPeNDAP servers and you want to make this data  
>>> available for searching, contact us! We would love to help and  
>>> answer any eventual question about the project.
>>>
>>> Cheers, and we would appreciate the collaboration of all,
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> []'s
>>>
>>> José Flávio
>>> Laboratório de Sistemas Distribuídos - LSD Universidade Federal  
>>> de Campina Grande - UFCG
>>> e-mail: zflavio at lsd.ufcg.edu.br ou zflavio at gmail.com
>>> msn: zflavio at gmail.com
>>>
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>> OPeNDAP, Inc                   406.723.8663
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