User Request: Create a lightweight data discovery portal/catalog for MBON datasets

[MathewBiddle]

Who is requesting this?

BOEM, MBON projects, RA directors, RA DMAC leads, Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission

What is being requested?

• A lightweight data discovery portal which has all the MBON data curated in one place.
• Without the need for analytical and graphing capability.
• A place where we can see, find, explore, and use these data
• Some options include:
  • Leverage existing work from ODIS on using schema.org to expose structured data. https://book.odis.org/indexing/index.html

  • As such, ODIS will not be a new portal or centralized system, but will provide a collaborative solution to interlink distributed systems for common goals.

  • Leverage work with ESRI Hub Premium and the NOAA GeoPlatform: https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/home/index.html

How would this request improve your current workflow?

• reduces the difficulty in tracking down data from MBON projects.
• Less overhead management of actual data bits and bytes like in the existing MBON Data Portal
• Leverages the existing resources that the projects are already using (ERDDAP, EDI, DataOne, etc.)

How can we get in contact with you to follow up on this request?

email: mathew.biddle@noaa.gov or comment on this issue.

[MathewBiddle]

Could be related to #95

[MathewBiddle]

definitely related to:

• https://github.com/ioos/mbon-docs/issues/52

consider this as well:

• https://github.com/ioos/mbon-docs/issues/53

[MathewBiddle]

Should also represent packages at NCEI. For example, all the records found under the ATN collection https://doi.org/10.25921/wp4e-ph20.

[MathewBiddle]

This should also provide a web accessible folder that could be indexed by the IOOS Data Catalog https://data.ioos.us/about.