Earth System Science Workbench: a data management infrastructure for earth science products

Author

Frew, James ; Bose, Rajendra

Author_Institution

Sch. of Environ. Sci. & Manage., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

180

Lastpage

189

Abstract

The Earth System Science Workbench (ESSW) is a non-intrusive data management infrastructure for researchers who are also data publishers. An implementation of ESSW to track the processing of locally received satellite imagery is presented, demonstrating the Workbench´s transparent and robust support for archiving and publishing data products. ESSW features a Lab Notebook metadata service, an ND-WORM (No Duplicate-Write Once Read Many) storage service, and Web user interface tools. The Lab Notebook logs processes (experiments) and their relationships via a custom API to XML documents stored in a relational database. The ND-WORM provides a managed storage archive for the Lab Notebook by keeping unique file digests and name-space meta-data, also in a relational database. ESSW Notebook tools allow project searching and ordering, and file and meta-data management

Keywords

application program interfaces; desktop publishing; geophysics computing; hypermedia markup languages; laboratory techniques; meta data; optical disc storage; relational databases; remote sensing; scientific information systems; storage management; user interfaces; ESSW; Earth System Science Workbench; Lab Notebook metadata service; ND-WORM storage service; World Wide Web user interface tools; XML documents; archiving; custom API; data management infrastructure; data publishing; earth science products; file management; locally received satellite imagery processing; metadata management; name-space meta-data; nonintrusive data management infrastructure; process logging; project ordering; project searching; relational database; unique file digests; Earth; Environmental management; File systems; Geoscience; Production; Publishing; Relational databases; Robustness; Satellites; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Scientific and Statistical Database Management, 2001. SSDBM 2001. Proceedings. Thirteenth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Fairfax, VA

ISSN

1099-3371

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1218-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SSDM.2001.938550

Filename

938550