HR: 0830h
AN: U41B-0023    [PDF]
TI: SIOExplorer: Modern IT Methods and Tools for Digital Library Management
AU: * Sutton, D W
EM: suttond@sdsc.edu
AF: San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0527 United States
AU: Helly, J
EM: hellyj@sdsc.edu
AF: San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0527 United States
AU: Miller, S
EM: spmiller@ucsd.edu
AF: Geological Data Center Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093-0220 United States
AU: Chase, A
EM: achase@sdsc.edu
AF: San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0527 United States
AU: Clarck, D
EM: dru@sdsc.edu
AF: Geological Data Center Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093-0220 United States
AB: With more geoscience disciplines becoming data-driven it is increasingly important to utilize modern techniques for data, information and knowledge management. SIOExplorer is a new digital library project with 2 terabytes of oceanographic data collected over the last 50 years on 700 cruises by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. It is built using a suite of information technology tools and methods that allow for an efficient and effective digital library management system. The library consists of a number of independent collections, each with corresponding metadata formats. The system architecture allows each collection to be built and uploaded based on a collection dependent metadata template file (MTF). This file is used to create the hierarchical structure of the collection, create metadata tables in a relational database, and to populate object metadata files and the collection as a whole. Collections are comprised of arbitrary digital objects stored at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) High Performance Storage System (HPSS) and managed using the Storage Resource Broker (SRB), data handling middle ware developed at SDSC. SIOExplorer interoperates with other collections as a data provider through the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) protocol. The user services for SIOExplorer are accessed from CruiseViewer, a Java application served using Java Web Start from the SIOExplorer home page. CruiseViewer is an advanced tool for data discovery and access. It implements general keyword and interactive geospatial search methods for the collections. It uses a basemap to georeference search results on user selected basemaps such as global topography or crustal age. User services include metadata viewing, opening of selective mime type digital objects (such as images, documents and grid files), and downloading of objects (including the brokering of proprietary hold restrictions).
UR: http://sioexplorer.ucsd.edu
DE: 4299 General or miscellaneous
DE: 9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields
SC: U
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting