Steve,
I think you raised extremely important issues for the Community and for GALEON.
IMHO, you listed some of the main GALEON objectives: 1) to "open"
MetOcean Community models and resources to other Communities in order
to face cross-disciplinary challenges; 2) to fill the existing gaps
of the Community IT solutions (e.g. to explicit semantics) to
leverage the Web potentialities 3) to bridge with the European
partners, who have de -jure directives to follow as far as IT is concerned.
In an over-simplified way, I could say: Multi-disciplinary
interoperability using IT
Thank you very much for your valuable comments.
--Stefano
Does it fit into the GALEON mission statement to ask how GALEON can
help in this effort? The climate community already has highly
advanced (though admittedly incomplete) solutions for distributed
model intercomparison using netCDF-CF-OPeNDAP. Where we have
critical gaps to be filled is 1) making these model outputs
available to outside communities (often GIS application users); and
2) bridging with European partners for whom an OGC-acceptable
solution is a legally-mandated requirement. Can GALEON help us to
succeed in these goals?
