SOS for CLIDB Mid-term - we got data

Based on the "vanilla" code from the 52North SVN repository I basically added a CLIDBHelper class to the "52n-sos-hibernate-core" Maven module that encapsulates the CLIDB database connection and re-directed most of the original Hibernate calls from the core DAOs to the helper.

Especially the Cache Feeder DAO needed a lot of attention, as it would fill the internal "capabilities" cache, which is the basic thing that needs to happen before the SOS instance is actually usable.

Then Describe Sensor DAO and GetObservation DAO are pretty straightforward, as they would "just" do specific queries, like give me the sensor description for sensor station XY or give rainfall data for station XY in the time period ...

Link to the full eResearch blog post

Final NZ Summer of eResearch 2012 presentation slides

The final student project presentations were held in Wellington at Victoria University.

Link to the slides of the final student project presentation

Random Reflections

Kia Ora :-)

The last weeks, two months were packed with experiences, developments, progress. I would like to shortly summarise the main three happenings. It is great to see progress and experience interest in that progress, so I'd like to share that, too :-)

New Zealand Hydrological Society Conference 2012, Nelson and the Data Access Workshop

• Water: know your limits (linked from NZHS website)
• Data Access and Visualisation Workshop at HydSoc (resources)

New Zealand Summer of eResearch (Dec 2012 - Feb 2013)

• NZ Summer of eResearch (Centre for eResearch, Auckland University)
• Sensor Observation Service (OGC SOS) for NIWA CLIDB
• Blog posts within the Summer of eResearch project context
• Introduction
• A first review
• A side note on geospatial data sharing
• Mid-Term review

SCANZ 2013 3rd nature hui and wananga symposium

• Intercreate.org and SCANZ 2013: 3rd nature
• Wananga-symposium (Friday to Sunday)
• Our abstract - a groundwater portal for New Zealand, towards a Te Reo Maori and Matauranga Maori integration with "Western Science"

This is sooo much stuff, I will have to write out details later :-) So far enjoy the links.