We provde provide O2A to the earth and environment community as "software as a service". You can use the O2A service services as the they are, especially in project-contexts where AWI is alignedinvolved.

O2A is an ecosystem of different integrated components and tools aligned with AWI's technical infrastructure. Of course, technical implementation is based on this infrastructure.

This page describes aspects of collaboration in terms of metadata and data content as well as software development of O2A components.

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The content in O2A can be distinct in a) metadata and b) data.

• Metadata about platforms, devices and sensors is mainly described in sensor.awi.de (see further information). There is a chief editor concept, where experts for thematic topics or projects should care about metadata structure, quality and qualityharmonization. Have a closer look to the description of the chief editor concept and / or write o2a-support@awi.de for help and feedback.
• Data Raw data can be automatically collected from different sources with ingest.awi.de and is stored in AWI's technical infrastructure as flat files or optional in databases (see further information). To allow automatic data processing, archiving, publication and provision of web services (e.g., dashboard, data web service, spatial data infrastructure), O2A uses standardized directory structures, simple data formats, spatial data formats and basic quality flagging. Three types of data ingestion are distingushed:
  • automatic near real-time data ingestion
  • automatic and central delayed-mode data ingestion
  • manual data ingestion
• Primary data

Software development

In general our O2A software is open source and can be re-used in other contexts.

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