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Welcome to the ESGF wiki!

The purpose of this wiki is to provide a workspace for people involved in ESGF.org to share information and collaborate.

Documentation Index

• ESGF Overview : high level overview of the ESGF goals and collaboration.

• ESGF Functionality : summary listing of the current functionality supported by the ESGF system.

• ESGF Architecture : high-level description of the system architecture.

• ESGF Node Manager

• Registry Component

  • ESGF Security

  • Identity Provider

    • Registration Service

    • Attribute Service

    • Policy Service

    • Authorization Service

    • OpenID Relying Party

    • Access Control Filters

    • Example: Secure File Download via Web Browser

  • ESGF Data Publishing

  • ESGF Replicas Support

  • ESGF Search

    • ESGF Search REST API

    • ESGF RSS Feeds

    • 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.

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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 Community Wiki

* [ 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 

• CSSEF Community Wiki

* Specs 

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Other Links

• ESGF Website

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ESGF is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy