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Welcome to the Earth System Grid Federation wiki!

This page is an entry point to the most relevant/active resources for ESGF in terms of people, working groups, mailing lists, central (production & pre-production) services, software repository, FAQ, ticketing system, meetings, key external resources. For an overview of the project please visit the ESGF Home Page

  • Looking for help? : Goto the ESGF Askbot Q&A site where ESGF experts are ready to answer your questions.

  • Found a bug? : Each ESGF component has it's own bug tracker on github. Visit the ESGF Components page to decide where to file your bug. If in doubt goto Askbot.

Mailing lists

ESGF maintains several mailing lists for keeping up to date on our activities. We also have specific lists for individual teams which focus on specific technical aspects of the system.

General Mailing lists

Mailing list name Goal Archive
esgf-announce@lists.llnl.gov Announces major system upgrades and downtime of nodes. Very low volume list. No
esgf-user@lists.llnl.gov Provides support for users of ESGF. May be deprecated in favour of Askbot. Medium volume, less technical list. No
esgf-devel@lists.llnl.gov Technidal discussion on ESGF node administration and development. High volume list. No
go-essp-tech@ucar.edu General discussion on Earth System Science informatics

TODO: How to subscribe

Meetings

We hold regular teleconferences which are announced on the GO-ESSP-TECH list.

  • Every second Tuesday at 8:00 PTD / 15:00 GMT (during summertime), 8:00 PST / 14:00 GMT (otherwise)
Wiki Reorganisation
We are reorganising this wiki to make it easier to navigate and update the content, removing incorrect and out of date information. All pages tagged for reorganisation should have a banner at the top like this one.

Documentation Index

* ESGF Node Manager 
  * [ Registry Component ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_Registry)

* ESGF Security 
  * Identity Provider 
  * [ Registration Service ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_Registration_Service)

  * [ Attribute Service ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_Attribute_Service)

  * Policy Service 
  * Authorization Service 
  * [ OpenID Relying Party ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_Openid_Relying_Party)

  * [ Access Control Filters ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_Access_Control_Filters)

  * Example: [ Secure File Download via Web Browser ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_workflow_browser)

* [ ESGF Data Publishing ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_Data_Publishing)

* [ ESGF Replicas Support ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_Replicas)

* [ ESGF Search ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_Search)

  * [ ESGF Search REST API ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_Search_REST_API)

  * [ ESGF RSS Feeds ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_RSS_Feeds)

  * [ ESGF Publishing Services ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_Publishing_Services)

* ESGF Web Front End 
* ESGF Dashboard
  • Installation : instructions on how to run the Node installation script.
* [ ESGF Node Installation ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGFNode|InstallationProcedure)
  • Administrator Guide : procedure for publishing data, configuring the system, testing etc - anything that goes beyond running the installation script.
* [ "Data Node Only" installation and configuration ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_Data_Node_Only)

* [ Project Configuration (for publication) ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_Project_Configuration)

* [ Data Publishing and Unpublishing ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_Data_Publishing)

* [ Configuring access control for publishing and downloading data ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_Access_Control)

* [ User and Group Management ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_GroupMgmt)

* [ Configuring the ESGF Access Control Filters ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_Access_Control_Filters)

* Static Config Files: 
  * [ Configuring the static shards for distributed searching ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_Search_Shards)

  * [ Configuring the static whitelist of trusted IdPs ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_IdPs)

* [ Adding new search facets ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_New_Facets)

* [ How to configure OpenDAP access on a Data Node ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_OpenDAP)

* [ Customizing the ESGF Node User Interface (a.k.a. Web Front End) ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_UI_Customization)

* [ ESGF Node Administrator Best Practices ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_Best_Practices)
  • Developer's Guide : interfaces between software components, document APIs, protocols that connect components, tutorials.
*  Database schema  : document the relational database schemas 

*  [ ESGF Security Interface Control Document (ICD) ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/Security|InterfaceControlDocument) 

*  [ ESGF Build ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_Build) 

*  [ ESGF Search API ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_Search_REST_API) 

* Tutorial:  [ Using the ESGF Access Control Filters to secure the Dashboard application ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_Tutorial_Securing_The_Dashboard) 


* [ THREDDS Catalogs Harvesting ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_THREDDS_Harvesting)

* [ ESGF Publisher Internals ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_Publisher_Internals)

  • User Guide : documents that teach how to use the system to scientists, students, policy makers ( not software engineers).

  • Interface Groups : groups to define interfaces for various parts of the architecture to promote integration and interoperability.

  • Roadmap : future development, schedules, milestones etc.

  • Just the FAQs : Frequently Asked Questions Pages

  • ESGF P2P Nodes : list of P2P nodes throughout the federation.

Communities

  • ESGF Annual P2P (peer-to-peer) F2F (face-to-face): Last T,W,TH in November!!
* [ 2013 ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF-P2P-F2F-2013) (please RSVP) 

* [ 2012 ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF-P2P-F2F-2012)

* [ 2011 ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF-P2P-F2F-2011)

* [ CMIP5 Status Page ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/Cmip5Status)

* The ESGF P2P Node is, at its core, the same "Data [ Node ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_Node) " supporting CMIP5 as always - Everything still applies. 

*  [ Just the FAQs ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/CMIP5_FAQs)  : Frequently Asked Questions for CMIP5 

* Specs

Other Links

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