HR: 11:50h
AN: SF42A-07    [Abstracts]
TI: A Scalable, Interoperable Network of Digital Libraries for Earth System Science with Examples from Oceanography and Hydrology
AU: * Helly, J
EM: hellyj@ucsd.edu
AF: University of California, San Diego, San Diego Supercomputer Center 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0505 United States
AU: Miller, S
EM: spmiller@ucsd.edu
AF: University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0220 United States
AU: Sutton, D
EM: suttond@sdsc.edu
AF: University of California, San Diego, San Diego Supercomputer Center 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0505 United States
AU: Clark, D
EM: dru@sdsc.edu
AF: University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0220 United States
AU: Houghton, T
EM: thoughto@sdsc.edu
AF: University of California, San Diego, San Diego Supercomputer Center 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0505 United States
AU: Chase, A
EM: achase@mbari.org
AF: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039-9644 United States
AB: This is a report on the construction of a network of digital libraries for the hydrology community as part of the CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System (HIS) based on an architecture developed for the publication of oceanographic data acquired by oceanographic research vessels. Our results show that this architecture and implementation are appropriate for a broad range of scientific disciplines and that the approach scales from the desk of the individual investigator to that of a major research institution and to the interoperation of institutions. We are able to run the entire digital library from a laptop computer as well as from supercomputer-center-size resources. The underlying architecture and prototype set of tools have been developed as a part of the SIOExplorer project (http://SIOExplorer.ucsd.edu), funded by National Science Digital Library (NSDL), Information Technology Research (ITR) and Ocean Science (OCE) awards over the last three years. With funding from the NSF Geosciences Directorate, this approach has been adapted to hydrology and is operating in a multi-site configuration representing a network of hydrological observatories and oceanographic archives. The system is integrated with the GEONgrid (http://geongrid.org) and includes automatic methods of harvesting data and metadata from existing web-sites (e.g., USGS and NASA) as well as real-time and near-real-time sensors through other data systems such as Unidata OpenDAP and Local Data Manager.
UR: http://cuahsi.sdsc.edu
DE: 9399 General or miscellaneous
DE: 4500 OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL
DE: 1800 HYDROLOGY
SC: Special Focus: Advances in Data Acquisition, Management, Analysis and Display [SF]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting