HR: 14:00h
AN: SH43B-03    [Abstracts]
TI: The Virtual Solar Observatory: Still a Small Box
AU: * Gurman, J B
EM: gurman@gsfc.nasa.gov
AF: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Laboratory for Solar and Space Physics Code 612.1, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Bogart, R S
EM: rick@rick.stanford.edu
AF: Stanford University, CSSA HEPL, Stanford, CA 94305-4085 United States
AU: Davey, A R
EM: ard@boulder.swri.edu
AF: Southwest Research Institute, 1050 South Walnut Street Suite 426, Boulder, CO 80302 United States
AU: Dimitoglou, G
EM: george@esa.nascom.nasa.gov
AF: Hood College and NASA GSFC, Laboratory for Solar and Space Physics Code 612.1, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Hill, F
EM: fhill@noao.edu
AF: National Solar Observatory, P.O. Box 26732 950 N. Cherry Avenue, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Hourcl‚, J A
EM: oneiros@purple.nascom.nasa.gov
AF: NASA GSFC and L-3 GSI, Laboratory for Solar and Space Physics Code 612.1, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Martens, P C
EM: martens@solar.physics.montana.edu
AF: Montana State Unversity, Physics Department P.O. Box 173840, Bozeman, MT 59717-3840 United States
AU: Su rez-Sola, I
EM: igor@noao.edu
AF: National Solar Observatory, P.O. Box 26732 950 N. Cherry Avenue, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Tian, K Q
EM: ktian@stanford.edu
AF: Stanford University, CSSA HEPL, Stanford, CA 94305-4085 United States
AU: Wampler, S
AF: National Solar Observatory, P.O. Box 26732 950 N. Cherry Avenue, Greenbelt, MD 20771 United States
AU: Yoshimura, K
AF: Montana State Unversity, Physics Department P.O. Box 173840, Bozeman, MT 59717-3840 United States
AB: Two and a half years after a design study began, and a year and a half after development commenced, version 1.0 of the Virtual Solar Observatory (VSO) was released at the 2004 Fall AGU meeting. Although internal elements of the VSO have changed, the basic design has remained the same, reflecting the team's belief in the importance of a simple, robust mechanism for registering data provider holdings, initiating queries at the appropriate provider sites, aggregating the responses, allowing the user to iterate before making a final selection, and enabling the delivery of data directly from the providers. In order to make the VSO transparent, lightweight, and portable, the developers employed XML for the registry, SOAP for communication between a VSO instance and data services, and HTML for the graphic user interface (GUI's). We discuss the internal data model, the API, and user responses to various trial GUI's as typical design issues for any virtual observatory. We also discuss the role of the "small box" of data search, identification, and delivery services provided by the VSO in the larger, Sun-Solar System Connection virtual observatory (VxO) scheme.
UR: http://virtualsolar.org/docs/AGUSPD200505/
DE: 7594 Instruments and techniques
DE: 9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields
SC: SPA-Solar and Heliospheric Physics [SH]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly