Exploring a linked data approach in accessing physical oceanography archive

Today, spaced-based technology is more than sufficient to provide the useful data needed for everyday services, such as communication, television, Global Positioning System, weather forecasting and others. The data obtained from space-based technology usually comes in the form of big data and are stored in heterogeneous formats. Hence, handling this data is time consuming and complex because traditional database tools and applications have difficulty processing large data endeavours formats. Thus, information sharing and exchanges over the internet are becoming more complicated. Linked data is considered as one of the best practices for exposing, sharing, publishing and connecting structured data on web. Therefore, this paper attempt to demonstrate the use of linked data platform namely Datalift in providing access to oceanography archive spatial datasets on the web. With Datalift, Resource Description Framework data format is generated from the input raw data with a chosen ontology. The published data could be accessed by end users and may be linked to other data sources to enrich the spatial information available over the web.