HR: 09:15h
AN: IN31C-05    [Abstracts]
TI: Mercury- Distributed Metadata Management, Data Discovery and Access System
AU: * Palanisamy, G
EM: palanisamyg@ornl.gov
AF: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Mail Stop 6407, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, United States
AU: Wilson, B E
EM: wilsonbe@ornl.gov
AF: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Mail Stop 6407, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, United States
AU: Devarakonda, R
EM: devarakondar@ornl.gov
AF: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Mail Stop 6407, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, United States
AU: Green, J M
EM: jgreen@iiaweb.com
AF: Information International Associates, 1055 Commerce Park Dr., Oak Ridge, TN 37831, United States
AB: Mercury is a federated metadata harvesting, search and retrieval tool based on both open source and ORNL- developed software. It was originally developed for NASA, and the Mercury development consortium now includes funding from NASA, USGS, and DOE. Mercury supports various metadata standards including XML, Z39.50, FGDC, Dublin-Core, Darwin-Core, EML, and ISO-19115 (under development). Mercury provides a single portal to information contained in disparate data management systems. It collects metadata and key data from contributing project servers distributed around the world and builds a centralized index. The Mercury search interfaces then allow the users to perform simple, fielded, spatial and temporal searches across these metadata sources. This centralized repository of metadata with distributed data sources provides extremely fast search results to the user, while allowing data providers to advertise the availability of their data and maintain complete control and ownership of that data. Mercury supports various projects including: ORNL DAAC, NBII, DADDI, LBA, NARSTO, CDIAC, OCEAN, I3N, IAI, ESIP and ARM. The new Mercury system is based on a Service Oriented Architecture and supports various services such as Thesaurus Service, Gazetteer Web Service and UDDI Directory Services. This system also provides various search services including: RSS, Geo-RSS, OpenSearch, Web Services and Portlets. Other features include: Filtering and dynamic sorting of search results, book-markable search results, save, retrieve, and modify search criteria.
UR: http://mercury.ornl.gov
DE: 0434 Data sets
DE: 0525 Data management
DE: 0530 Data presentation and visualization
DE: 1615 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling (0412, 0414, 0793, 4805, 4912)
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting