HR: 1330h
AN: U22A-0011    [PDF]
TI: Virtual Solar Observatory Distributed Query Construction
AU: Gurman, J B
EM: gurman@gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space flight Center, Solar Data Analysis Center Code 682.3, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: * Dimitoglou, G
EM: george@esa.nascom.nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space flight Center, Solar Data Analysis Center Code 682.3, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Bigart, R S
EM: rick@rick.stanford.edu
AF: Stanford University, CSSA HEPL Annex, Stanford, CA 94305-4085 United States
AU: Davey, A R
EM: ard@mithra.physics.montana.edu
AF: Southwest Reseacrh Institute, 1050 Walnut Street, Ste. 426, Boulder, CO 80302 United States
AU: Hill, F
EM: hill@noao.edu
AF: National Solar Observatory, P.O. Box 26732 950 N. Cherry Avnue, Tucson, AZ 85726 United States
AU: Martens, P C
EM: martens@solar.physics.montana.edu
AF: Montana State University, Physics Department PO Box 172840, Bozeman, MT 59717-3840 United States
AU: Tian, K Q
EM: ktian@stanford.edu
AF: Stanford University, CSSA HEPL Annex, Stanford, CA 94305-4085 United States
AU: Wampler, S
EM: swampler@noao.edu
AF: National Solar Observatory, P.O. Box 26732 950 N. Cherry Avnue, Tucson, AZ 85726 United States
AB: Through a prototype implementation (Tian {\it et al.}, this meeting) the VSO has already demonstrated the capability of unifying geographically distributed data sources following the Web Services paradigm and utilizing mechanisms such as the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). So far, four participating sites (Stanford, Montana State University, National Solar Observatory and the Solar Data Analysis Center) permit Web-accessible, time-based searches that allow browse access to a number of diverse data sets. Our latest work includes the extension of the simple, time-based queries to include numerous other searchable observation parameters. For VSO users, this extended functionality enables more refined searches. For the VSO, it is a proof of concept that more complex, distributed queries can be effectively constructed and that results from heterogeneous, remote sources can be synthesized and presented to users as a single, virtual data product.
UR: http://virtualsolar.org/docs/AGU200312/query_construction.html
DE: 7594 Instruments and techniques
DE: 9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields
SC: U
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting