HR: 17:30h
AN: IN44A-07    [Abstracts]
TI: WHOI and SIO (I): Next Steps toward Multi-Institution Archiving of Shipboard and Deep Submergence Vehicle Data
AU: * Detrick, R S
EM: rdetrick@whoi.edu
AF: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 360 Woods Hole Rd., Woods Hole, MA 02543-1055 United States
AU: Clark, D
IN44A-07 AF: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093-0505 United States
AU: Gaylord, A
IN44A-07 AF: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 360 Woods Hole Rd., Woods Hole, MA 02543-1055 United States
AU: Goldsmith, R
IN44A-07 AF: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 360 Woods Hole Rd., Woods Hole, MA 02543-1055 United States
AU: Helly, J
IN44A-07 AF: San Diego Supercomputer Center, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093-0505 United States
AU: Lemmond, P
IN44A-07 AF: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 360 Woods Hole Rd., Woods Hole, MA 02543-1055 United States
AU: Lerner, S
IN44A-07 AF: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 360 Woods Hole Rd., Woods Hole, MA 02543-1055 United States
AU: Maffei, A
IN44A-07 AF: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 360 Woods Hole Rd., Woods Hole, MA 02543-1055 United States
AU: Miller, S P
IN44A-07 AF: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093-0505 United States
AU: Norton, C
IN44A-07 AF: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 360 Woods Hole Rd., Woods Hole, MA 02543-1055 United States
AU: Walden, B
IN44A-07 AF: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 360 Woods Hole Rd., Woods Hole, MA 02543-1055 United States
AB: The Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have joined forces with the San Diego Supercomputer Center to build a testbed for multi-institutional archiving of shipboard and deep submergence vehicle data. Support has been provided by the Digital Archiving and Preservation program funded by NSF/CISE and the Library of Congress. In addition to the more than 92,000 objects stored in the SIOExplorer Digital Library, the testbed will provide access to data, photographs, video images and documents from WHOI ships, Alvin submersible and Jason ROV dives, and deep-towed vehicle surveys. An interactive digital library interface will allow combinations of distributed collections to be browsed, metadata inspected, and objects displayed or selected for download. The digital library architecture, and the search and display tools of the SIOExplorer project, are being combined with WHOI tools, such as the Alvin Framegrabber and the Jason Virtual Control Van, that have been designed using WHOI's GeoBrowser to handle the vast volumes of digital video and camera data generated by Alvin, Jason and other deep submergence vehicles. Notions of scalability will be tested, as data volumes range from 3 CDs per cruise to 200 DVDs per cruise. Much of the scalability of this proposal comes from an ability to attach digital library data and metadata acquisition processes to diverse sensor systems. We are able to run an entire digital library from a laptop computer as well as from supercomputer-center-size resources. It can be used, in the field, laboratory or classroom, covering data from acquisition-to-archive using a single coherent methodology. The design is an open architecture, supporting applications through well-defined external interfaces maintained as an open-source effort for community inclusion and enhancement.
UR: http://gdc.ucsd.edu:8080/digarch
DE: 0525 Data management
DE: 3000 MARINE GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS
DE: 4200 OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005