Glossary

An glossary compiled also be found in the IPCC, 2021: Annex VII: Glossary. [IPCC_2023]

Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC): 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
Web Processing Service (WPS): WPS is an open standard to search and run processes with a simple web-based interface.
Web Mapping Service (WMS): 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
Catalog Service (CSW): 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 Web processing Service{.interpreted-text role="term"} standard from Open Geospatial Consortium{.interpreted-text role="term"}. 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 Anaconda{.interpreted-text role="term"} 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 Open Geospatial Consortium{.interpreted-text role="term"} web service interface standards, and their related content models. OWSLib has WPS{.interpreted-text role="term"} 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 OGC{.interpreted-text role="term"} 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 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 Web Processing Services <wps>{.interpreted-text role="term"}. http://pyramid-phoenix.readthedocs.io/en/latest
Malleefowl: Malleefowl is a Python package to simplify the usage of Web Processing Services <wps>{.interpreted-text role="term"}. http://malleefowl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Emu: Emu is a Python package with some test proccess for Web Processing Services <wps>{.interpreted-text role="term"}. 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 NetCDF{.interpreted-text role="term"} files or files served through THREDDS{.interpreted-text role="term"} 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 climate indices <climate indice>{.interpreted-text role="term"}. 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