Response to Issue #4
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What datasets will be served via the system as part of this effort? Seed the system? What assistance will be needed?
Many of the regional agencies and participating scientists have datasets stored in a variety of commercial DBMS software packages. Workshop participants recommended that DODS servers be developed to handle Microsoft EXCEL and ACCESS files, SAS, S+, and ArcINFO GIS formatted data.
The workshop attendees had varying levels of expertise when it came to installing servers. It was noted that money would come from the project to support server installation. In the proposal, each region would either:
Ultimately, it is up to each region to decide how they want to proceed and perhaps identify a few high priority sites for server installation.
It was noted that the DODS project bears a great deal of responsibility for the success of this phase. in particular, the workshops pointed out that:
Some of the workshops suggested that funds would be well spent to provide even more intensive help to people who want to install DODS servers.
Each workshop spent some time detailing the datasets attendees knew about that could be served by DODS. These lists are available in the respective appendices.
It was noted in the Northeast workshop that there are many good datasets developed by various government resource management agencies (who were not represented at the workshop). These data are presumed to be small datasets housed on a variety of platforms and stored with many different kinds of software. Making these datasets DODS accessible will be a large task.
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