Draft version 0.1

README.md

-# metcoop-wg-backend
-MetCoOp Working Group Backend repository
+DRAFT v. 0.1
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+MetCoOp WG Backend has been established to design unified interfaces to each institutes’ data.
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+The group has two ultimate goals:
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+1. Every institute has opportunity to use each other’s data as an operational backup and as part of meteorologists’ workflow
+Every institute’s open data is shared in unified format via unified interfaces
+2. All designed interfaces should be based on some existing commonly used standard (e.g. OGC, WIS, INSPIRE, OpenWeather, etc.).
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+Before taking a new task, group will ensure that necessary pre-requirements are fulfilled:
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+1. There is a identified need and use case for the service
+2. Each institute have resources to implement the service
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+Group has identified following scope of services where standardisation would be beneficial:
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+* warnings (CAP)
+* Time series (observations and forecasts)
+* WMS (images)
+* Gridded data
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+So far following use cases are envisioned
+* Sharing open data (warnings, time series, WMS, gridded data)
+* Common archive
+* Disseminating HPC data
+* Forecaster workstation backends