O2A-data: software repositories in GitHub

The increasing number and complexity of research platforms and respective devices and sensors along with heterogeneous project-driven requirements towards satellite communication, sensor monitoring, quality assessment and control, processing, analysis and visualization has recently lead us to build a generic and cost-effective framework (O2A) to enable the flow of sensor observations to archives. O2A is comprised of several extensible and exchangeable components as well as various interoperability services and is meant to offer practical solutions towards supporting the typical scientific workflow ranging from data acquisition activities until the very last data publication activities. For the sake of supporting scientists, we have created an open access software repository in GitHub named "oa2-data" (see https://github.com/o2a-data) where distinct repositories have been made accessible to all users. Each repository is meant to provide access, analysis and visualization examples for individual O2A component (e.g. PANGAEA with quality-controlled datasets, near real-time data in DASHBOARD.awi.de). The GitHub "O2a-data" repository is being extended on a regular basis by our IT team using use cases provided by large-scale projects