Within the US Federal Government, there is a trend towards embracing the benefits of open data to increase transparency and maximize potential innovation and resulting economic benefit from taxpayer investment. Recently, an Executive Order was signed specifically requiring federal agencies to provide a public inventory of their non-restricted data and to use standard web-friendly formats and services for public data access. For geospatial data, popular free and open source software packages are ideal options to implement an open data infrastructure. NOAA, an agency whose mission has long embraced and indeed centered on open data, has recently deployed or tested several FOSS products to meet the open data executive order. Among these are GeoServer, GeoNode, and CKAN, or Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network, a data management and publishing system.This talk will focus on how these three FOSS products can be deployed together to provide an open data architecture exclusively built on open source. Data sets hosted in GeoServer can be cataloged and visualized in GeoNode, and fed to CKAN for search and discovery as well as translation to open data policy-compliant JSON format. Upcoming enhancements to GeoNode, the middle tier of the stack, will allow integration with data hosting backends other than GeoServer, such as Esri's ArcGIS REST services or external WMS services. We'll highlight NOAA's existing implementation of the above, including the recently-deployed public data catalog, https://data.noaa.gov/, and GeoServer data hosting platform, as well as potential build out of the full stack including the GeoNode integration layer. |