HR: 0800h
AN: SH51A-0246    [Abstracts]
TI: The Virtual Magnetospheric Observatory at UCLA
AU: * Walker, R J
EM: rwalker@igpp.ucla.edu
AF: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics and Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States
AU: King, T A
EM: tking@igpp.ucla.edu
AF: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States
AU: Joy, S P
EM: sjoy@igpp.ucla.edu
AF: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States
AU: Bargatze, L F
EM: lfb@igpp.ucla.edu
AF: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States
AU: Chi, P
EM: pchi@igpp.ucla.edu
AF: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States
AU: Weygand, J
EM: jweygand@igpp.ucla.edu
AF: Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States
AB: The Virtual Magnetospheric Observatory (VMO) creates robust links to the world's relevant data bases and thereby provides one-stop shopping for the magnetospheric researcher seeking data. The VMO is a joint effort of scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and UCLA. The VMO supports two ways for a scientist to find the data and access the data needed for a given study. One is a structured interface developed at GSFC and the other is a word based interface (Google like) developed at UCLA. Both interfaces provide well organized views of the diverse scientific data holdings needed for magnetospheric research. The word based interface will be demonstrated at the poster. Since data are dynamic, the VMO portal design allows frequent and asynchronous updating. The VMO will only succeed in serving the needs of the magnetospheric science community if most of the world's data repositories are part of the system. Therefore we have worked to make it simple to participate in the VMO. The registries for both data and services are designed to make it easy for suppliers to make their resources available and update information. The basis for resource descriptions is the SPASE data model. We have created tools to enable data repositories to populate the registries and to communicate with the VMO even if they use other data models. Scientists trained in data management, called domain experts, are available to work with data suppliers to prepare the metadata and to create archival quality data products. We describe how the domain experts bring information into the VMO.
DE: 0525 Data management
DE: 2431 Ionosphere/magnetosphere interactions (2736)
DE: 2784 Solar wind/magnetosphere interactions
DE: 6939 Magnetospheric physics (2700)
SC: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting