NOAA NDBC Ship Observations Report

[elmbeech]

Ship Observations Report

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ship_obs.php

{
    "Individual source or seed URL": "http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/ship_obs.php",
    "UUID": "EB78B9A8-7CBB-48BE-82A2-946C47FA46C3",
    "Institution facilitating the data capture creation and packaging": "Data Rescue A2",
    "Date of capture": "2017-01-28",
    "Federal agency data acquired from": "National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration",
    "Name of resource": "Ship Observations Report",
    "File formats contained in package": ".txt",
    "Type(s) of content in package": "datasets",
    "Free text description of capture process": "Scrape webpages with a predictable URL",
    "Name of package creator": "Cam Herringshaw"
}

first of all: NOAA National Data Buoy Center website should not be screen scraped. please read the NDBC Web Data Guide: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/docs/ndbc_web_data_guide.pdf

second: this ship observations report data is live data. updated every hour, lost every 12 hour.

i checked the faq page http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/faq.shtml if there is maybe a solution, but for this Ship Observations Report data it seems really hard.

for historical archived data http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/archive.shtml i found the following hint:

Ship Observations and Other Marine Climatologies The National Climatic Data Center archives all marine surface observations by geographic square and time. They have a variety of marine climatic atlases in paper or CD-ROM. Contact them at http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov, or by calling (828) 271-4800.

please let me know if you still need me to write the JSON metadata file. i am happy to do so, if you really have the data. best, Elmar