SDCI NMI Improvement: OPeNDAP and NetCDF Integration

SDCI NMI改进：OPeNDAP和NetCDF集成OPeNDAP的网络技术和Unidata的netCDF科学数据访问软件的集成使数据档案的构建能够提供广泛的好处。许多用于高级科学分析的计算机应用程序使用Unidata开发的netCDF软件包读取和写入数据。该软件包为这些应用程序的开发人员和应用程序的用户提供了许多优点。然而，netCDF包缺少的一点是通过Internet读取数据的方法。OPeNDAP开发了这种能力，并正在与Unidata合作，将这种能力纳入netCDF软件。使用这种新功能，使用netCDF的应用程序可以打开远程文件，了解它们包含的信息并从中读取数据，而无需这些文件的本地副本。相反，这些文件就像一个网站，用户只能访问他们需要的部分。研究人员和政府实验室可以建立数据档案，然后用户可以通过各种现有的分析应用程序访问这些档案。该项目的广泛影响是重大的。另外，OPeNDAP和netCDF都已经被广泛用于研究和教育的数据基础设施。 这种基础设施可以对社区如何使用科学数据产生深远而持久的影响。这些技术已经在许多研究项目、研讨会和发表的论文中得到了应用，从而促进了人们的理解。将OPeNDAP和netCDF结合起来将产生许多积极的影响。促进对大型数据档案的数据访问有助于消除障碍，并为大型机构的研究人员和小型学院或大学的研究人员或学生提供公平的竞争环境。 对来自多个来源和学科的数据访问进行规范化和标准化的努力鼓励了合作和新的跨学科见解。独立于平台的软件使那些买不起专用计算机设备的小型机构受益，该项目使大型或小型数据档案的建立和远程访问变得更加容易，有助于我们更接近一个科学数据像文本一样容易查找和访问的时代。

SDCI NMI Improvement: OPeNDAP and NetCDF IntegrationThe integration of OPeNDAP's network technology and Unidata's netCDF scientific data access software enables the construction of data archives that provide wide-reaching benefits.Many computer applications used in advanced scientific analysis read and write data using the netCDF software package, developed by Unidata. This software package offers a number of advantages to both the developers of those applications and to the application's users. However, one thing the netCDF package lacks is a way to read from data over the Internet. OPeNDAP has developed such a capability and is working with Unidata to integrate that capability into the netCDF software. Using this new capability, applications which use netCDF can open remote files, learn about the information they contain and read data from them all without local copies of those files. Instead, the files are served like a web site where users access only those parts they need. Researchers and government laboratories can build data archives which users then access with a wide variety of existing analysis applications. The broader impacts of this project are significant. Separately, both OPeNDAP and netCDF are already widely used data infrastructure for research and education. Such infrastructure can have profound and lasting impacts on how communities use scientific data. These technologies have already advanced understanding as exemplified by their use in numerous research projects, workshops, and published papers. Combining OPeNDAP and netCDF will have a number of positive effects. Facilitating data access to large data archives helps to remove barriers and level the playing field among researchers at large institutions and individual researchers or students at small colleges or universities. Efforts at regularizing and standardizing access to data from multiple sources and disciplines encourage collaborations and new cross-disciplinary insights. Platform-independent software benefits small institutions that cannot afford special-purpose computing equipment.By facilitating the ease with which large or small data archives can be established and accessed remotely, this project helps to bring us closer to a time when scientific data are as easy as text to find and access.