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The technologies behind data & licensing.

Every technology this platform builds with, layer by layer, from the open taxonomy. Marked in red: what is moving now, each traced to its source.

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Areas · 5 Technologies · 59 Industries · 19

01The layered map

Layer by layer, from the open taxonomy.

Each domain this platform draws on, with its layers and the technologies in each. Open a layer for what each technology does and the standard behind it.

Data, software and interoperability

How observations move from the edge into stores, catalogues and APIs with their provenance, licence and residency attached, and how they interoperate through open standards and the open Observatory Protocol.

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Ingest and streaming

Technologies · 8

  • Publish-subscribe telemetry
  • Message queuing between services
  • Event envelopes
  • Event-driven API descriptions
  • Meteorological data exchange
  • Schemas and data contracts
  • Timestamps and time zones
  • Edge filtering and store-and-forward

Storage and data lakes

Technologies · 6

  • Time-series stores
  • Columnar data lakes
  • Array stores for cubes and models
  • Spatial databases
  • Tiered storage and retention
  • Long-term preservation

Metadata, provenance and catalogues

Technologies · 8 · Frontier · 1

  • Provenance
  • Lineage in geographic metadata
  • Dataset catalogues
  • Asset catalogues
  • WMO discovery metadata
  • Persistent identifiers and citation
  • Controlled vocabularies and units
  • Content credentials for media

Open standards and interoperability

Technologies · 7

  • OGC SensorThings API
  • OGC API – Connected Systems
  • Observation models and ontologies
  • OPC UA information models
  • Context information management
  • Asset administration shell
  • Hydro and met data encodings

APIs and SDKs

Technologies · 7

  • API descriptions
  • OGC API building blocks
  • Authorisation
  • Error reporting
  • Quotas, metering and usage records
  • SDKs and client libraries
  • Webhooks and subscriptions

Licensing, residency and governance

Technologies · 8 · Frontier · 1

  • Open data licences
  • Data and code licence identifiers
  • FAIR data practice
  • Indigenous data governance
  • Data residency by contract
  • Cross-border transfer rules
  • Data sharing agreements
  • Data spaces

Digital twins and observability

Technologies · 7

  • Digital twin concepts
  • Twin frameworks for equipment and sites
  • Telemetry for software
  • Metrics exposition
  • Network and device management interfaces
  • Data quality monitoring
  • Service level objectives

Open protocol interfaces and federation

Technologies · 8 · Frontier · 2

  • Node roles and profiles
  • Enrolment and admission state machines
  • Observation envelope
  • Signed orchestration plans
  • Conformance testing
  • Grid federation
  • Federated learning across grids
  • Privacy-preserving analytics

02Across the network

The whole spectrum, on the main site.

Main site

Every technology domain

All domains, layers and items, with their sources.Open →
Main site

The spectrum

The technologies of observation on one map.Open →
Observatory Protocol

Standards

The open standards the protocol is composed from.Open →

03On this site

Where to go next.

Data & licensing

Areas

Every area, with its systems and standards.Open →
Data & licensing

Architecture

Layers, functions and evidence.Open →
Data & licensing

Industries

The industry sites built on this platform.Open →
Data & licensing

Resources

Explainer, stories, specification and forms.Open →

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The technologies behind data & licensing.

Bring us the site.

We bring the survey, the design and the crew. The form names who receives your details.