[seek-dev] data

[Matt Jones]

Deana,

I took a look at the site containing the data.  In order to get it into 
EcoGrid reasonably, we really should develop some EML metadata 
descriptions of the products you are interested in from that site.  I'm 
not sure how much work that would be -- depends on how complex and 
variable the different data sources are.  Once we have an EML 
description of each source, we can add them to the EcoGrid (currently 
that means manually adding the EML and the data to one of the EcoGrid 
systems).  My guess is that Metacat and SRB could be used for this one, 
but DiGIR is probably not appropriate for this data type.  Jing is 
working on putting EcoGrid access capabilities into Kepler, so once the 
data sets are accessible in EcoGrid you should be able to use them in 
Kepler in the workflow Chad is developing.

Matt

Deana Pennington wrote:

> At the BEAM/AMS/KR meeting in early Feb, we designed a first application 
> for the ecological niche modelling community, that involves analyzing 
> the effect of various modeled climate change scenarios on mammal 
> populations.  To do the analysis, we need to use climate data from the 
> following site:
> 
> IPCC climate change:    http://ipcc-ddc.cru.uea.ac.uk/
> 
> There will be other sites as well; I'll let you know when I find out 
> what they are.  We will need to either set these up as nodes on the 
> EcoGrid, or mirror the sites on one of our nodes.  Could someone please 
> take a look at this site, and let me know if that is possible any time 
> in the near future?  I am currently trying to figure out exactly which 
> data are needed, and what we will have to do to them to get them into 
> the workflow Chad is constructing.
> Thanks,
> Deana
> 
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