ISES-CI: Development of Cyberinfrastructure for the Solid Earth
Sciences
Richard W. Carlson, Carnegie Institution
of Washington, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism
An Information Processing Style of Database for Coastal-marine
Substrates on Global Scales - dbSEABED
Chris Jenkins, University of Colorado at
Boulder Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR)
EARTH SCIENCE MARKUP LANGUAGE: Interchange Technology for Data
and Tool Interoperability
Ken Keiser, The University of Alabama in
Huntsville, Information Technology and Systems Center
Advanced Technologies for Geoscience Visualization and Collaboration
Jason Leigh, University of Illinois at Chicago,
Electronic Visualization Laboratory
Marine Geology Data Systems at NGDC and the collocated World
Data Center for Marine Geology and Geophysics, Boulder
Carla Moore, Marine Geology and Geophysics
Division, NOAA, National Geophysical Data Center
As a national and international data center,
NGDC provides long-term scientific data stewardship for
marine geologic data collected by individuals, organizations,
and scientific programs. NGDC’s marine geology
systems strategy was determined by the diverse and changing
nature of both data parameters and data users. Because
flexibility and extensibility are essential, NGDC relies
on open-source and commercial tools. NGDC’s two
main geologic systems are: 1) An inventory of data archived
by NGDC derived from over 171,000 sea floor and lakebed
samples worldwide, and 2) The Index to Marine and Lacustrine
Geological Samples, operated by NGDC on behalf of twenty
participating sample repositories, some funded by NSF.
The Index contains 255,000 records describing samples
available from the repositories from 70,000 global locations.
Both systems are accessible on-line through an Oracle
Text interface enhanced with a Java map (for entry of
lat/lon limits and plotting search results), and via
an ESRI ArcIMS map interface. The Text and ArcIMS interfaces
both enable data download from NGDC’s archives,
and provide links to off-site data. URL: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/geology/
Proposed General Thoughts Regarding
IODP Data
Richard Murray, Boston University, Department
of Earth Sciences
J-CORES, CHIKYU shipboard science database system
Kyoma Takahashi, Center for Deep Earth Exploration
(CDEX), Japanese Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology