Open CDMS Strategy

Vision statement

ET-CDMS in 2015 noted that:

Currently, significant investment is needed to maintain a multitude of CDMS worldwide to generate data for regional and global analyses.
These CDMS are not compliant with the new WMO #1131, Climate Data Management Systems Specifications.
Significant investment will be required to conform to the requirements of WMO 1131.
It will be very expensive and wasteful of resources to develop the same functionality in many CDMS.
There are several open source CDMS used by WMO members.
There is considerable potential to address this situation by rationalising these open source CDMS.

Therefore ET-CDMS propose that:

Open source CDMS should converge on one Reference Open Source CDMS, namely Open-CDMS.
Investment is required to make this happen.

Document		Number

Workshop concept note		N(2)
	Workshop document plan	N(2.1)
Strategy for reference CDMS tool set		N(3)
	Management and ownership structure for the reference CDMS tool set	N(3.1)
	Governance of development and maintenance of the reference CDMS tool set	N(3.2)
	Financial and skills support for the reference CDMS tool set	N(3.3)
Implementation plan for the reference CDMS tool set		N(4)
	Draft resolution for Cg-18	N(4.1)
	Declaration of intention to contribute to development and maintenance of the reference CDMS tool set	N(4.2)
	Shared hosting of the reference CDMS tool set	N(4.3)