.. _glossary: ======== Glossary ======== .. glossary:: :sorted: OGC Open Geospatial Consortium The *Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)* is an international voluntary consensus standards organization, originated in 1994. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Geospatial_Consortium, http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wps WPS Web Processing Service WPS is an open standard to search and run processes with a simple web-based interface. See: :ref:`wps_tutorial`. WMS Web Mapping Service A Web Map Service (WMS) is a standard protocol for serving georeferenced map images over the Internet that are generated by a map server using data from a GIS database. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Map_Service CSW Catalog Service *Catalog Service for the Web (CSW)*, sometimes seen as Catalog Service - Web, is a standard for exposing a catalogue of geospatial records in XML on the Internet (over HTTP). The catalogue is made up of records that describe geospatial data (e.g. KML), geospatial services (e.g. WMS), and related resources. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalog_Service_for_the_Web XML-RPC It's a spec and a set of implementations that allow software running on disparate operating systems, running in different environments to make procedure calls over the Internet. http://xmlrpc.scripting.com/default.html WSGI WSGI is an interface specification by which server and application communicate. http://wsgi.tutorial.codepoint.net/ Gunicorn Gunicorn *Green Unicorn* is a Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX. http://gunicorn.org/ Nginx nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server. http://nginx.org/ Supervisor Supervisor is a client/server system that allows its users to monitor and control a number of processes on UNIX-like operating systems. http://supervisord.org/ Buildout *Buildout* is a Python-based build system for creating, assembling and deploying applications from multiple parts, some of which may be non-Python-based. It lets you create a buildout configuration and reproduce the same software later. http://www.buildout.org/en/latest/ PyWPS *Python Web Processing Service* is an implementation of the :term:`Web processing Service` standard from :term:`Open Geospatial Consortium`. http://pywps.org/ COWS The COWS Web Processing Service (WPS) is a *generic* web service and offline processing tool developed within the Centre for Environmental Data Archival (CEDA). http://cows.ceda.ac.uk/cows_wps.html Anaconda Anaconda Python distribution Python distribution for large-scale data processing, predictive analytics, and scientific computing. https://www.continuum.io/ Conda The *conda* command is the primary interface for managing Anaconda installations. http://conda.pydata.org/docs/index.html Binstar Anaconda Server Anaconda cloud Binstar is a service that allows you to create and manage public and private :term:`Anaconda` package repositories. https://anaconda.org/ https://docs.continuum.io/ Docker *Docker* - An open platform for distributed applications for developers and sysadmins. https://www.docker.com/ Docker Hub Docker Hub manages the lifecycle of distributed apps with cloud services for building and sharing containers and automating workflows. https://hub.docker.com/ GeoPython GitHub organisation of Python projects related to geospatial. https://geopython.github.io/ OWSLib OWSLib is a Python package for client programming with :term:`Open Geospatial Consortium` web service interface standards, and their related content models. OWSLib has :term:`WPS` client library which is used in Birdhouse to access WPS services. http://geopython.github.io/OWSLib/, http://geopython.github.io/OWSLib/#wps PyCSW pycsw is an :term:`OGC` CSW server implementation written in Python. Started in 2010 (more formally announced in 2011), pycsw allows for the publishing and discovery of geospatial metadata, providing a standards-based metadata and catalogue component of spatial data infrastructures. http://pycsw.org/, https://github.com/geopython/pycsw ESGF Earth System Grid Federation An open source effort providing a robust, distributed data and computation platform, enabling world wide access to Peta/Exa-scale scientific data. http://esgf.llnl.gov/ OpenID OpenID (OID) is an open standard and decentralized protocol by the non-profit OpenID Foundation that allows users to be authenticated by certain co-operating sites (known as Relying Parties or RP) using a third party service. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID, http://openid.net/ Pyramid Pyramid is a Python web framework. http://www.pylonsproject.org/ Bokeh Bokeh is a Python interactive visualization library that targets modern web browsers for presentation. Its goal is to provide elegant, concise construction of novel graphics in the style of D3.js, but also deliver this capability with high-performance interactivity over very large or streaming datasets. http://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/ CMIP5 In climatology, the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) is a framework and the analog of the Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP) for global coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation models. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupled_model_intercomparison_project CORDEX The CORDEX vision is to advance and coordinate the science and application of regional climate downscaling through global partnerships. http://www.cordex.org/ x509 In cryptography, X.509 is an ITU-T standard for a public key infrastructure (PKI) and Privilege Management Infrastructure (PMI). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.509 NetCDF NetCDF (Network Common Data Form) is a set of software libraries and self-describing, machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetCDF Workflow Workflow Management System A workflow management system (WfMS) is a software system for the set-up, performance and monitoring of a defined sequence of tasks, arranged as a workflow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workflow_management_system PyPi Python Package Index The Python Package Index is a repository of software for the Python programming language. https://pypi.python.org/pypi Homebrew The missing package manager for OS X. http://brew.sh/ Linuxbrew Linuxbrew is a fork of Homebrew, the Mac OS package manager, for Linux. http://brew.sh/linuxbrew/ GitHub GitHub is a web-based Git repository hosting service. https://github.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub Phoenix Pyramid *Phoenix* is a web-application build with the Python web-framework pyramid. Phoenix has a user interface to make it easier to interact with :term:`Web Processing Services `. http://pyramid-phoenix.readthedocs.io/en/latest Malleefowl *Malleefowl* is a Python package to simplify the usage of :term:`Web Processing Services `. http://malleefowl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Emu *Emu* is a Python package with some test proccess for :term:`Web Processing Services `. http://emu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ CDO Climate Data Operators *CDO* is a collection of command line Operators to manipulate and analyse Climate and NWP model Data. https://code.zmaw.de/projects/cdo ocgis OpenClimateGIS *OpenClimateGIS* (OCGIS) is a Python package designed for geospatial manipulation, subsetting, computation, and translation of climate datasets stored in local :term:`NetCDF` files or files served through :term:`THREDDS` data servers. https://www.earthsystemcog.org/projects/openclimategis/ https://github.com/NCPP/ocgis ICCLIM Indice Calculation CLIMate *ICCLIM* (Indice Calculation CLIMate) is a Python library for computing a number of :term:`climate indices `. http://icclim.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ climate indice A climate index is a calculated value that can be used to describe the state and the changes in the climate system. http://icclim.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html#climate-indices-label TDS THREDDS The THREDDS Data Server (TDS) is a web server that provides metadata and data access for scientific datasets, using a variety of remote data access protocols. http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/thredds/current/tds/ cfchecker The NetCDF Climate Forcast Conventions compliance checker. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cfchecker Taverna *Taverna* is an open source and domain-independent Workflow Management System – a suite of tools used to design and execute scientific workflows. http://www.taverna.org.uk/ VisTrails *VisTrails* is an open-source scientific workflow and provenance management system that supports data exploration and visualization. http://www.vistrails.org/index.php/Main_Page Dispel4py *Dispel4Py* is a Python library for describing abstract workflows for distributed data-intensive applications. http://www2.epcc.ed.ac.uk/~amrey/VERCE/Dispel4Py/index.html RestFlow *RestFlow* is a dataflow programming language and runtime engine designed to make it easy for scientists to build and execute computational pipelines. https://github.com/restflow-org/restflow/wiki GeoServer GeoServer is an open source software server written in Java that allows users to share and edit geospatial data. http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/index.html