Australian OPeNDAP Workshop Series

· 12 October 2007 (half day) APAC’07 OPeNDAP workshop

in Perth, Australia

· 15-16 October 2007 BMRC OPeNDAP System Administrator’s workshop

in Melbourne, Australia

· 17-18 October 2007 BMRC OPeNDAP Developer’s workshop

in Melbourne, Australia

BMRC OPeNDAP System Administrator’s workshop

Monday 15 October to Tuesday 16 October:

This workshop targets the system administrator whose task is to setup a data service for interactive users, batch processes, and high level web services, that will access netcdf, hdf, or freeform data in a filesystem or SQL data in a database. The workshop will provide them with the information they need to install and configure Hyrax along with some background on available clients so they can test their servers and give basic advice to users.

1. Architecture and Design of Hyrax

1.1. OLFS

1.2. BES

1.3. How 'handlers' are used to extend the different parts of the server

2. Installation of Hyrax, configuration of several of the handlers

2.1. NetCDF

2.2. FreeForm

2.3. SQL

3. Testing the server installation

3.1. Command line clients and special testing tools

3.2. Graphical clients

4. Installation Advanced issues

4.1. Logging

4.2. Security

4.3. Authentication and Authorization

5. Commonly used clients and their different characteristics

5.1. Clients that support the complete DAP data model

5.2. Clients that translate some data types

6. Other services hosted within Hyrax

6.1. ASCII

6.2. Metadata Information

6.3. Web Interface

6.4. THREDDS

6.5. GridFTP

7. Future Development Plans

7.1. WCS/WFS

7.2. WMS

7.3. File-out

All attendees are asked to bring a PC laptop and will be given a Linux virtual machine. If people want to use a Mac, they will have to be able to 'roll with the punches' when it comes to building code in that environment.

We will provide attendees with a binder for the lecture and hands-on info.