OOSTethys

Welcome to OOSTethys, where members of the ocean-science community are using Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards to implement an earth-observing "system of systems." OOSTethys partners develop, test and implement easy-to-use, open-source, OGC-compliant software, and have created a working prototype of networked, interoperable, real-time data systems. Our goal is to develop capabilities that will advance and support initiatives such as the IOOS, ORION, GEOSS and others.

• Data Providers: Use OOSTethys software downloads & cookbooks to implement OGC web services.
• Data Users: Explore HOWTOs for data clients & web-based visualizations from the OOSTethys reference implementation.
• Developers: Help create new software components and get involved in the OGC Interoperability Experiment.

In December 2006, the OGC approved the Ocean Science Interoperability Experiment (OCEANS IE), which will build a close relationship between OOSTethys activities and the OGC vision for Sensor Web Enablement using OGC specifications such as SensorML, Sensor Observation Services (SOS), and related specifications such as the Web Feature Service (WFS). 

In February, 2008 Phase II of the Oceans IE was announced. 

Latest News (Summer 2008): We are very happy to announce a new version of the oostethys java 
toolkit, which creates SOS services from OPenDAP and NetCDF sources. 
It is available here:

http://www.oostethys.org/downloads/oostethys-toolkit-java/oostethys_0-2-2_20080808/

Or direct link to sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/oostethys/