HR: 0800h
AN: SH51A-0255    [Abstracts]
TI: Lessons Learned in Heliophysics Data Description: Discussion of the Development and Use of the SPASE Data Model
AU: * Thieman, J R
EM: james.r.thieman@nasa.gov
AF: NASA/GSFC, Code 690.1 NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States
AU: Bell, E
EM: Edwin.V.Bell@nasa.gov
AF: NASA/GSFC, Code 690.1 NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States
AU: Hourcle, J
EM: Joseph.A.Hourcle@nasa.gov
AF: NASA/GSFC, Code 671.1 NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States
AU: King, J
EM: Joseph.H.King@nasa.gov
AF: NASA/GSFC, Code 690.1 NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States
AU: King, T
EM: tking@igpp.ucla.edu
AF: UCLA, Institute of Geophys. and Planetary Phys. University of California 5881 Slichter Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States
AU: Richards, P
EM: P.J.Richards@rl.ac.uk
AF: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, RAL, Chilton, OXON, MD OX11, United Kingdom
AU: Walker, R
EM: rwalker@igpp.ucla.edu
AF: UCLA, Institute of Geophys. and Planetary Phys. University of California 5881 Slichter Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, United States
AU: Weigel, R
EM: rweigel@gmu.edu
AF: George Mason University, Department of Physics and Astronomy GMU, Fairfax, VA 22030, United States
AU: Weiss, M
EM: Michele.Weiss@jhuapl.edu
AF: JHU/APL, The Johns Hopkins Univ./Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723-6099, United States
AB: The heliophysics community is presenting at this meeting the results of the development of a number of virtual observatories that have been funded by NASA to provide data access for various subdisciplines (magnetospheres. ionospheres, cosmic rays, radiation belts, etc.) within the realm of heliophysics. For users in one subdiscipline to determine what data might be available and useful in another subdiscipline it is necessary to do cross-subdiscipline searches. To enable such cross-subdiscipline searches to be done in an efficient and thorough manner it is important to have the data described according to a common set of metadata terms or data model. The Space Physics Archive Search and Extract (SPASE) Data Model was developed by representatives of the subdisciplines for this purpose. It is now being applied to describing the data sets in the virtual observatories and, as might be expected, there are a number of lessons that have been learned in this process. This presentation will make note of the lessons learned in the process of describing the data and what problems have yet to be solved. We intend to share this experience with representatives from other disciplines and learn from their experiences as well. We encourage those seeing the presentation to come prepared to relate their knowledge, even if it is only a brief interaction at that time.
UR: http://www.spase-group.org
DE: 7800 SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS
DE: 7900 SPACE WEATHER
SC: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting