HR: 16:35h
AN: SH54C-03 INVITED    [Abstracts]
TI: Integrating Cluster Data into the VO Infrastructure
AU: * Richards, P J
EM: P.J.Richards@rl.ac.uk
AF: Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
AU: Perry, C H
EM: C.H.Perry@rl.ac.uk
AF: Science and Technology Facilities Council, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
AB: The UK Cluster Data Centre (UKCDC) has provided access to Cluster data products since the launch of the Cluster spacecraft in 2000. In keeping with the aim of providing the widest possible access to the Space Physics community, the UKCDC has participated in several projects to advance the interoperability of their data holdings within the emerging international VO infrastructure. These activities include AstroGrid in the UK, ESA's SpaceGrid and participation in the NASA led Space Physics Archive Search and Extract (SPASE) Consortium. Although, as demonstrated by SpaceGrid, the technology exists to build the VO infrastructure, the main obstacle to progress has been the absence of a metadata standard used by Data Centres and other data providers. The Cluster Active Archive (CAA), which is providing an archive of Cluster high resolution data, has a comprehensive metadata dictionary which is used to describe all Cluster data products. The UKCDC is ingesting into the CAA the summary and primary data products being used during the mission for event monitoring. As part of this activity, the CAA metadata is also being translated into SPASE metadata and the UKCDC is in the process of building a SPASE registry of the data products available at the UKCDC and also data access services developed according to the SPASE standards. The experience gained as the SPASE standard matures will form the basis for building a SPASE registry and services for access to the Cluster archive.
DE: 0525 Data management
DE: 7800 SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS
SC: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting