SIPAD-NG: a generic system for accessing scientific data - Application to oceanography products
Claire Pottier, D. Heulet · EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts · 2009
ABSTRACT – SIPAD-NG (“Systeme d’Information, de Preservation et d’Acces aux Donnees – Nouvelle Generation” – “Information System for Data Preservation and Access – New Generation”) is a generic software system allowing web consultation of scientific data catalogs and access to these data. SIPAD-NG is an “on the shelf” software that can be used by Data Centres from any scientific domain. Currently, SIPAD-NG is operational for accessing data from CNES/CNRS Plasma Physics Data Centre, Mercator-Ocean and soon for CNES altimetry products and CNES/IFREMER SMOS products. The SIPAD-NG kernel is composed of “basic services” that offer the standard functions of a data management system: mechanisms for searching for relevant data, data selection and ordering, long-term archiving, etc... These “basic services” provide interfaces that allow various types of “client applications” to use them: web servers, science processing software, remote applications, etc... This architecture provides Data Centres with a software system that can be adapted to their needs and enhanced over time by: metadata catalog parameterization, customisation of the web server, adding of client applications and specific software. We describe SIPAD-NG characteristics in terms of functionalities, architectural design and technological choices. An example of instantiation for Oceanography applications (Mercator-Ocean and altimetry) is detailed.