Home

####Welcome to the ESGF wiki! The old wiki is still viewable at http://devel.esgf.org/wiki

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

####Quick Help

• Peer Node Status
• Shutdown Info
• Shutdown Instructions
• Visit the ESGF.org web site.

System	Version (Release)
ESGF (P2P) Node	1.5.0 (Brower Park)

---

Mark Your Calendars!!!

• The Third Annual ESGF P2P F2F!!! - Scheduled for December 3rd - 5th 2013 (The week before AGU!)

---

Documentation Index

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

• ESGF Manifesto : document describing the inspiring principles and methodology of ESGF software development.

• 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 ](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 

• Releases :

*  [ Software Releases ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/|releases)  : listing of components and versions entering each release. 

*  [ Release Version 1.5 (current) ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/Release_1.5) 

*  [ Release Version 1.4 ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/Release_1.4) 

*  [ Release Version 1.2 ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/Release_1.2) 

• Installation : instructions on how to run the Node installation script.

* (see [ P2P 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)

* [ Transitioning to the P2P system ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_Transition)

* [ 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 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) 

*  [ ESGF Testing Template ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_Testing_Template)  : a minimum set of checks to be performed on each P2P node after each release. 

* [ 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).

• Tools : brief description of tools for the ESGF system, linking to more specific tool guides

• 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.

• Demo of P2P system at GO-ESSP Conference Call , January 24th 2012

• ESGF Developers Meeting Agenda

---

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 

* Older [ CMIP5 Gateway ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/Cmip5Gateway) project info and [ releases ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/|nexus|content|repositories|releases|sgf|gateway|)

* [ Node-Gateway interoperability ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_Integration)

* [ ESGF Transition Status ](https://github.com/ESGF/esgf.github.io/wiki/ESGF_Transition_Status)

• CSSEF Community Wiki

* Specs 

---

Other Links

• ESGF Website

• ESGF Blog

How to use this site?

---

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