Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/C001583/1
NDG2: The NERC DataGrid and associated toolkit.
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor B Lawrence, STFC - Laboratories, RAL Space
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr HM Snaith, National Oceanography Centre, Science and Technology
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor SB Groom, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Remote Sensing Group
- Co-Investigator:
- Mrs K Kleese van Dam, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Fundamental&Computational Sci Directorat
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr R Lowry, National Oceanography Centre, Science and Technology
- Grant held at:
- STFC - Laboratories, RAL Space
- Science Area:
- Terrestrial
- Marine
- Freshwater
- Earth
- Atmospheric
- Overall Classification:
- Atmospheric
- ENRIs:
- Global Change
- Science Topics:
- Ocean - Atmosphere Interact.
- Environmental Informatics
- Climate & Climate Change
- Abstract:
- The NERC DataGrid (NDG) project was funded for three years from September 2002 and was built around two activities: the development of software to support an environmental datagrid, and deployment in the NERC atmospheric and oceanographic communities. After two years a number of significant achievements have resulted in a prototype environmental grid that by the end of the existing funding will have demonstrated the way forward. This proposal is for two years support to go beyond the aims of the NDG1 project to complete the development of an NDG software toolkit and deploy the NDG more widely. When complete, these two activities (software development, and grid deployment) will have evolved to a point where their future evolution can be split and handled by appropriate communities. The NDG2 deployment will create a production NERC DataGrid across further data holdings in the British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC), the NERC Centres for Atmospheric Science (NCAS, including the British Atmospheric Data Centre, BADC), the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML) Remote Sensing Data Analysis Service (RSDAS) and the Southampton Oceanography Centre (SOC). As the system rolls out other groups will be enabled to join in, provided they have adequate metadata, or the means to produce it. The toolkit will allow the construction of user defined views and aggregations of data from holdings at one or more of data providers, thus contributing to the construction of user defined earth system atlases. The metadata structures developed will incorporate provision for sufficient provenance information so that users will be able to identify authoritative datasets, whether part of the proposed QUEST Earth System Atlas or otherwise. The toolkit will support interoperation with other key international developments, and so the NDG portal will allow users to find and utilise data worldwide.
- Period of Award:
- 1 Sep 2005 - 31 Dec 2007
- Value:
- £475,726 Lead Split Award
Authorised funds only
- NERC Reference:
- NE/C001583/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Directed Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- E-Science
This grant award has a total value of £475,726
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - Staff | Total - T&S | Total - Other Costs | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|
| £300,513 | £24,652 | £12,326 | £138,236 |
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