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Part II. Phased Implementation Plan for DMACº Category: Committee recommendations => DMAC policy (governance)- Task 5: Pilot Data Portal - NOAA NCDDCº Provide for a catalog and data access portal at NOAA’s National Coastal Data DevelopmentCenter and include discovery of NDBC data (hub of 70 moored buoys and 60 C-MANshore sites – transporting hourly observations).º Category: Contract(s)- Task 6: Pre-operational Data Portalº Category: Contract(s)- Task 7: Operational Data Portalº Category: Contract(s)• Deliverables: Design recommendations• Estimated Resources:• Schedule: Start right away using existing data portals for study.• Sequencing:• Partnerships: User Support, user community, Data Transport, portal experts6. Activity: Discovery: Study Alternate Discovery Approaches• Description: Study alternate discovery approaches like Web Services and Semantic Web toaddress feasibility of this type of approach. This study could reveal methodologies to translateamong multiple ontologies and allow the user to search among multiple controlled keywordsand thesauri.• Milestone 1: Study an implementation language neutral approach.- Task 1: Study, report alternatives like web service.• Milestone 2: Study feasibility of using semantic web.- Description: Determine feasibility of using semantic web and ontologies in connection withIOOS metadata and for interoperability with other data catalogs.• Milestone 3: Convene a working group to study semantic web feasibility- Task 1: How is this broken up if at all?º If initial decision is “No,” shouldn’t it be revisited in a few years as the technology matures?º If decision is “Yes,” initiate a R&D or pre-operational task?º Category: Committee work• Deliverables: Feasibility Report• Estimated Resources:• Schedule: Year 1• Sequencing:• Partnerships: Interim Standards Committee, User Support team, semantic web experts.• Milestone 2: R&D or Pilot study of alternate approaches in DMAC- Task 1: R&D or Pilot study of alternate approaches82