HR: 1340h
AN: IN33B-1182    [Abstracts]
TI: Enabling Data Sharing with the Shore Side Data System (SSDS): Lessons Learned and Future Development
AU: * Gomes, K J
EM: kgomes@mbari.org
AF: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039 United States
AU: Bermudez, L
EM: bermudez@mbari.org
AF: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039 United States
AU: Salamy, K
EM: salamy@mbari.org
AF: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039 United States
AB: At the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) we have experience in building data systems to meet scientific needs in oceanography. Many of these experiences involve system communication and data interoperability. Obviously there are many issues associated with 'systems of systems', and while this is a more tractable problem within the walls of an institute, when interoperating with external data systems, the difficulties grow rapidly. One example of a project within MBARI, the Shore-Side Data System (SSDS), has a service-oriented architecture which helped immensely in the connection of systems. The SSDS has served as a portion of the data management system for the Center for Integrated Marine Technologies (CIMT) Wind to Whales Program. Software connectivity was greatly enhanced by the service-oriented architecture of SSDS, but we still faced issues surrounding common vocabularies and ontologies that are necessary for true system interoperability. With the help of the Marine Metadata Initiative (MMI), some promising technologies are being developed to help SSDS bridge the gap between itself and other data systems. This will present the SSDS system and the portions of the architecture that have assisted in the connection of some production systems. It will also detail out where we are currently experiencing limitations and how projects like MMI are enabling interoperability with external data systems.
UR: http://www.mbari.org/ssds
DE: 4200 OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL
DE: 4262 Ocean observing systems
DE: 4299 General or miscellaneous
DE: 9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005