Data sharing via the Norwegian ESG data portal

All users of the NorStore project ns2345k have the possibility to share their data via NorStore's ESG data portal http://noresg.norstore.no.

Requirements are:

• the data has to reside in /projects/ns2345k
• only netcdf files are considered
• all files must be regular (i.e., no symbolic links)
• file names must all be unique (folder hierarchy is flattened during publication)
• reading permissions of data files must be open to everyone (does not apply to their parent folders)

Note that the data sharing solution uses hard links to avoid additional use of disk resources. The original data is not touched/modified.

For simple data sharing, use the script /projects/NS2345K/tools/esgpublish:

Usage: esgpublish <path to data directory> <dataset name> 

Example: esgpublish /projects/NS2345K/noresm/thredds/CORE2/AMOC CORE2-AMOC 
 
Purpose: Publish data via NorStore's online data portal http://noresg.norstore.no 

Description: The path to the data directory must be absolute and start with 
             /projects/NS2345K or /norstore_osl/projects/NS2345K.  

             Only regular files (i.e., no symbolic links) of netcdf format are 
             considered. 
          
             All date files must have unique names as the folder stucture is 
             flattened during publication. 

             Reading permissions of the data files have to be open to everyone, 
             but reading permissions of the folders containing the files can be 
             closed. 
              
             <dataset name> should be one word and not contain special 
             characters other than "-" and "_". 

To unpublish a dataset that previously has been published with esgpublish, use the script /projects/NS2345K/tools/esgunpublish:

Usage: esgunpublish <dataset name> 

Example: esgunpublish CORE2-AMOC 
 
Purpose: Unpublish a dataset from NorStore's online data portal http://noresg.norstore.no 

Several projects (e.g, CMIP, GeoMIP, etc) require special post-processing and ESG publishing procedures.

Please contact Ingo Bethke (ingo.bethke[at]uni.no) or Alf Grini (alfg[at]met.no) for assistance.