126 [WOD] world ocean database connection

[pbuttigieg]

#126

[pbuttigieg]

The objective of this PR is to draft a ODIS-Arch Dataset subspecification for World Ocean Database (WOD) to share cast-by-cast metadata which links back to the default year-by-year data products served here

[pbuttigieg]

The data served by the US Government is all Public Domain

[pbuttigieg]

The distributions are TAR balls like this one

These TAR ball contains many NetCDF files - unclear what the granularity of the ODIS-Arch record is going to be

Are all the netcdf files in this tarball coming from one cast?

[pbuttigieg]

TODOs

• Confirm the granularity of the data being released and that the distribution is correct (TAR.gz? netCDF?)
• Identify the data catalogue if any and record
• Identify what metadata is already available for each record (e..g. what's stored in the netCDF files or the ISO/XML files), create appropriate pattern.
• Create sitemap.xml
• Create appropriate ODISCat record

[pbuttigieg]

We should also consider creating a WebService pattern for the service that allows users to assemble data products on the fly using Parquet files.

We could cross-link each Dataset file to the Webservice