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1. Information Products: The SCOOP cyberinfrastructure can be used to create web-based information products. Several working prototypes could be turned into web-based tools for decision making, research or education. The products themselves integrate real-time and archived data from from a distributed set of standards-compliant data providers.
   
2. Data Interoperability: SCOOP partners are leading a community initiative to develop, test and implement reference software implementations of standards-compliant service interfaces. Data providers and observing systems can use these software tools to become "interoperable" with other systems. We're using standards from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) as part of an OGC-sanctioned Ocean Science Interoperability Experiment (OCEANS IE). The OCEANS IE is SCOOP's contribution to the NSF-funded Marine Metadata Interoperability project, and our partners include OGC members at Texas A&M, Unidata/NCAR, MBARI and GoMOOS; plus other software developers from the U.S. and abroad. All software & cookbooks are freely available.
   
3. Cyberinfrastructure: SCOOP partners are extending the concepts of data interoperability to develop a cyberinfrastructure for predicting and analyzing coastal inundation. This complementary cyberinfrastructure initiative uses a service-oriented architecture (SOA), as described in recent article in the MTS Journal [NOTE: ADD LINK TO PDF]. This is by far the most sophisticated and technically complex initiative of the SCOOP program. The goal is a modular system for event-driven computing and ensemble modeling. The SCOOP cyberinfrastructure is an inundation-specific prototype of the relatively broad concept of a Distributed Coastal Laboratory, which is being advanced by the SURA Coastal Research Committee.