18 May 2025
The NODC has been at the University of Bari Aldo Moro to attend the 2025 edition of the GARR conference entitled "Digital frontiers. Shared and independent infrastructures for the future of research".
GARR is the ultra-broadband network for the Italian research and education community. Managed by the non-profit organisation Consortium GARR, it provides high-performance connectivity and develops innovative services. The conference allows the GARR network to dialogue with the ever-changing needs of users. At this annual meeting, experiences, ideas and visions about the use of digital infrastructures and services in a variety of disciplines and contexts were exchanged.
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Alexia Cociancich, NODC Data Steward, was on site to explain why NODC chose the Environmental Research Division Data Access Program (ERDDAP™) to ensure
near real-time data accessibility and interoperability. These data on a variety of parameters are collected and transmitted by the network of oceanographic instruments in the Adriatic Sea that OGS has been managing for 10 years.
ERDDAP was first developed and used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and is now one of the most widely used open source software in the scientific field related to environmental data. Data managers can combine different sources and publish datasets in a powerful RESTful web service and a simple and intuitive web interface. Data users can filter and export data in different formats.
Finally, the NODC presented the
geoportal, which has been developed to provide key information on the stations of the monitoring network in the Adriatic Sea in near real-time to ensure an immediate and more intuitive graphical representation even for non-experts.
Alexia Cociancich: "The GARR conference facilitates dialogue between those working in the field of digital infrastructures. The various contributions gave an insight into different aspects related to the topics of the conference, such as the use of artificial intelligence and its impact, the limits and innovations of current technologies and their application areas such as biomedicine and environmental research. Participants were given a 360° overview of the current state of the art at national level."
Learn more about this topic in the presentation Open Science and FAIR Data: An oceanographic application in near-real-time.
