Requirements:

  • Data providers should publish Web Accessible Folders (WAF) or OGC Catalog Service (CS-W) sources containing routinely-updated ISO 19115-2 XML metadata describing all Data Access Services they publish.
  • The WAF or CS-W should be registered in the IOOS Catalog Harvest Registry for automated harvest into the IOOS Data Catalog. As many WAFs or CS-W services can be registered in the Harvest Registry as necessary - there is no limit on either source for an individual data provider.

Available Resources:

IOOS Catalog Harvest Registry 
IOOS data providers can register for an account in connection with their organizational affiliation, configure WAF or CS-W harvest sources for their organization, and view harvest job error reports or metadata validation errors for individual ISO XML metadata records.  Full documentation on using the Harvest Registry is available at the IOOS Catalog Documentation Site.

Compliance Checker
The IOOS Compliance Checker is a command line Python tool to check local/remote datasets against a variety of compliance standards, including community standards such as netCDF-CF, ACDD, and the IOOS Metadata Profile. For non-python users, there is also a Compliance Checker website where files can be individually run through the checker. 

Compliance Checker can be used to determine a dataset or data access service’s compliance with community standards such as CF or ACDD, and therefore any resulting issues with ISO XML metadata generated from those data sources via automated tools.  Missing or invalid metadata can result from datasets that do not follow standards properly.

Background:

The IOOS Catalog is the master inventory of publicly-available DMAC datasets and data access services. The Catalog system consists of the CKAN-based IOOS Data Catalog, available at https://data.ioos.us/, and the Harvest Registry, available at https://registry.ioos.us/. The IOOS Data Catalog is the primary interface for the public to discover and access IOOS data products. It offers both a web-based user interface and an API for machine-to-machine query. The Harvest Registry is an internal tool that is used by IOOS data providers to manage dataset metadata sources for the Catalog to harvest and to validate metadata compliance with ISO standards.

The IOOS Catalog also serves as an inventory for populating other IOOS national products, in particular the IOOS Sensor Map (https://sensors.ioos.us). The Sensor Map queries the IOOS Catalog to identify datasets that meet the IOOS Metadata Profile 1.2 standard required for inclusion in the Sensor Map and then ingests data directly from the IOOS data provider data access service(s). IOOS data provider observations are then aggregated network-wide in both the Sensor Map website and associated ERDDAP server (https://erddap.sensors.ioos.us/erddap).