Delivering DigitalServices
NextGen Web Service
Implementation by the National
Weather Service
Ryan SolomonProject ManagerNOAA NextGen IT Web Services
Date: August 28, 2014
Project highlights
• OGC-compliant web services• Standard formats – – NetCDF 4 Classic CF– IWXXM, IWXXM-US, WXXM
• Redundant high availability state of the art data centers– College Park– Boulder
• Experienced in delivery of operational capabilities– NCEP Central Operations
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Project approach
Build it and they will come
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“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.” - FDR
Project status
Prototype serving data to the FAA to support EWD
Metadata development on trackSchema development progressing nws.weather.gov/schemas/ nws.weather.gov/codes/
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Project status (cont)
IOC – June 2015 Build-out team staffing up• NWS Internet Dissemination System (NIDS)
Training Learning about the data sets Interfacing with subject matter experts
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Project status (cont)
Exploring options CKAN ckan.org
open source data hub used by several countries including the U.S. – data.gov
Boundless OpenGeo Suite boundlessgeo.com PostGIS Open standards – WCS, WFS, WMS
RabbitMQ rabbitmq.com open source messaging broker feature rich persistence high availability clustering
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Data (WFS)
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METAR Priority 1
SPECITAF
SIGMET
Priority 1Priority 1
Priority 1
AIRMETMDCRSNCWF
PIREP
Priority 1Priority 1Priority 1
Priority 1
June 2015June 2015June 2015June 2015June 2015June 2015June 2015June 2015
Project schedule
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CIP/NCWD from NIDS
dev 9/16/14
CIP/NCWD from NIDS dev (OGC
WCS) 11/6/14
METAR from NIDS dev
11/5/14
IOC metadata
and schema records
complete 12/5/14
CIP/NCWD from IDP
(OGC WCS) 12/29/14
METAR from
NIDS dev (OGC WFS)
1/8/15
METAR available from IDP
(OGC WFS)
2/12/15
All IOC products
from NIDS dev 5/4/15
All IOC products from IDP
(OGC WCS/WFS)
6/30/15
Challenges (common)
• Transition from TAC to XML• Bandwidth• System resources• $$• Governance• Change management• Parallel data feeds and data integrity
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Challenges (project)
• OpenGeo NetCDF support• Pub/sub approach• URN namespace uniqueness• Balancing user requirements with schedule– FAA, AWIPS-II, others– What we can realistically stand up by June 2015
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