Posters

Abstract

The time for talking about digitalisation is over. The time for doing it is now. Although there is little consensus on particular toolsets and frameworks to use, it is widely accepted that digitalisation brings a huge range of benefits - quicker time to market for products, improved access for researchers, less laborious processes for consultancies and many more. This talk is not a normal conference paper, presenting results of work from the past year. A big barrier to digitalisation is simply the perceived difficulty of actually achieving it. We here aim to overcome that barrier. We will do that by demonstrating, live and followable throughout the duration of WindEurope Copenhagen, an end-to-end “How-To” process: architecture, development, data engineering and deployment of a working data service, accessible to the entire industry. At the IEA Task 43 General Meeting in July 2022, it was clear that discrete examples of best practices were essential for reaching the goal of “Frictionless data access within and between organizations by 2030”. Geospatial surface elevation data is publicly available, but very hard to fetch. So our challenge is to develop a service making it *completely frictionless* for *anyone* to fetch, whilst explaining how we're doing it as a learning example. This talk will introduce the challenge. The planned architecture will be presented with an introduction to the variety of open-source tools that will be / are being used. Depending on when the talk is timed, we will also update on where we're at, and what problems we're facing. Our experiences will put in a more strategic perspective, making reference to the IEA Task 43 Data Maturity Roadmap contents. Follow along at https://github.com/octue/elevations-service