OPeNDAP at American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2024

OPeNDAP had a big presence at this year’s American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2024 meeting, held in Washington DC. Over the course of the week, we hosted a shared booth with The HDF Group! We had over 200 people stop by our booth from all over the world, to catch up about the work that OPeNDAP and The HDF Group have been doing in the past years, and to meet the team behind these organizations.

Here are more details about our activities: 

co-chairing Poster and Oral session — James Gallagher

Session title: Transformative Earth Science Data: The Tools/Services and Innovations Driving Timely and Impactful Research, Analysis, and Decision-Making

Poster Session: IN41C at 8:30 – 12:20p  

 Oral Session: IN43D at 2:10-3:40pm

Poster presentations

Title: “High-Performance Access to Archival Data Stored in HDF4 and HDF5 on Cloud Object Stores Without Reformatting the Files”. (IN51F-2431)

Session Title: High-Performance Access to Archival Data Stored in HDF4 and HDF5 on Cloud Object Stores Without Reformatting the Files

Time: Friday, Dec 13, 2024. 08:30am – 12:20pm EST

Presenter: James Gallagher.

Link to Poster: https://zenodo.org/records/14232491

Title: “Multidisciplinary Use of Earth Science Data: An Analysis of OPeNDAP users ” (SY21C-2443). 

Session Title: Earth Science Data and Information: Meeting Users’ Needs to Amplify Multidisciplinary Science and Support Actionable Information Poster
Presenter: Arika Virapongse

Time: Tuesday, Dec 10, 2024. 8:30am – 12:20pm EST

The poster can be found here: https://zenodo.org/records/14232522 and a smaller brochure version of the poster is available here: https://zenodo.org/records/14277903 

Arika Virapongse presented this poster on behalf of her co-authors, James Gallagher and Miguel Jimenez-Urias. By being grouped in the Science & Society section of the poster hall, Arika was able to interact with other presenters and attendees who were also interested in developing ways to increase the benefits of science for broader society. 

The poster shared about OPeNDAP’s approach to learn more about its users. OPeNDAP’s User Research program (initiated in 2023) seeks to fill a common gap in technology efforts: to understand better who the users of technology are and what their needs are. By sharing our approach, we hope to spark discussion among other science-related technology organizations around how we can do better to understand and serve our users.

Title: “PyDAP Revisited: Exploiting OPeNDAP’s Data-Proximate Transformation Tools to Accelerate Scientific Workflows” (IN41C-2234)

Session title: Transformative Earth Science Data: The Tools/Services and Innovations Driving Timely and Impactful Research, Analysis, and Decision-Making I Poster

Presenter: Miguel A. Jimenez-Urias

Time: Tuesday, Dec 12, 2024. 8:30am – 12:20 EST

Link to Poster: https://zenodo.org/records/14278435

OPeNDAP + The HDF Group Booth

We had over 200 AGU attendees stop by our booth, from all over the world, from diverse scientific backgrounds, and career stages. Many knew about OPeNDAP or HDF, and were delighted to meet and connect with the team behind the software! This year’s partnership with the HDF Group proved a valuable one, since in combination OPeNDAP and The HDF Group covered the entire spectrum of data production and access/publishing.