MBARI's SSDS: operational, extensible data management for ocean observatories

The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) has collected science data for 15 years from many oceanographic instruments and systems. The Monterey ocean observing system, or MOOS, presents new oceanographic data management challenges. To meet the data management requirements, MBARI is developing a flexible, extensible data management solution, the shore side data system (SSDS). This data management solution addresses the complete data life cycle, including instrument (and metadata) development, data ingest, archival, search and access, and visualization and analysis. Working with MOOS infrastructure software, the SSDS can easily support new instruments, data streams, and data sets, from all types of instruments and platforms (for example, moorings, AUVs, and ships). The current status of SSDS development will be presented, including lessons learned from work to date, and the standard tools and protocols, which have been adopted.