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A sustainable interaction between mankind and the dynamic natural system provides a great number of hydraulic and environmental engineering challenges. The paradigm to confront these challenges one-project-at-a-time, while attractive from a budget management perspective, results in grave inefficiencies in the development and maintenance of the basic elements that are invariably involved: data, models and tools.

Hardly any project is by itself of sufficient scale to comprehensively develop easy accessible high quality data archives, state-of-the-art model systems and well tested practical analysis tools under version control. As a result research and consultancy projects commonly spend a significant part of their budget to set-up some basic infrastructure, most of which dissipates again once the project is finished.

OpenEarth is the open source initiative to archive, host and disseminate Data, Models and Tools for marine & coastal scientist and engineers. It aims to remedy the above-described inefficiencies by providing a project-superseding approach.

To facilitate steady and continuous development and growth of these building blocks even beyond the man-made boundaries of projects Subversion repositories are utilised for storage, back-up and version control of raw data, scripts and source code. Products are shared freely via various web based tools. As a result research and consultancy projects no longer need to waste valuable resources by repeatedly starting from scratch. Rather they can build on the preserved efforts from countless projects before them.

OpenEarth is, amongst others, supported by the concerted effort of professionals from Deltares (formerly Delft Hydraulics), Delft University of Technology's Hydraulic Engineering and Environmental Fluid Mechanics sections and UNESCO-IHE. It is currently the central platform for data and knowledge management in the research programmes Delft Cluster - Northsea and Coast, Building with Nature and MICORE.

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Title Author Date Posted
The Economist - New ways of visualising data Gerben de Boer 02-03-2010
OpenEarth - OpenEarth mentioned on twitter as stunning data visualisation Thijs Damsma 27-01-2010
OpenEarth - NOAA and Google to Visualise Scientific Data Thijs Damsma 27-01-2010
OpenEarth - Cool new kml macro for visualizing kml or kmz files interactively Pieter van Geer 22-12-2009
OpenEarth - OpenEarth is working together with TUD library on data accessibility Mark van Koningsveld 16-12-2009
OpenEarth - Inventor of WWW pleads for sharing raw data now! Meinte Blaas 11-12-2009
OpenEarth - Dune Erosion Delta Flume experiment data (van Gent et al., 2008) available in OpenEarth Kees den Heijer 17-11-2009
BwN - 04-12-2009 Knowledge atelier Mirjam Korteland 13-11-2009
OpenEarth - OpenEarth tutorials available in matlab help browser Pieter van Geer 22-10-2009
OpenEarth - New content header page Pieter van Geer 15-10-2009
BwN - Markermeer data in OpenEarth Gerben de Boer 14-10-2009
OpenEarth - USGS joins OpenEarth Ben de Sonneville 13-10-2009
BwN - AMS1 Kick-off meeting Martin Baptist 29-09-2009
OpenEarth - Data sharing hot topic in Nature & Eos Meinte Blaas 23-09-2009
OpenEarth - New tutorial pages Pieter van Geer 14-09-2009
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