A Framework for Earth Science Search Interface Development

Design and Implementation of S2S

Presented by: Stephan Zednik, Tetherless World Constellation1

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Tetherless World Constellation•Eric Rozell•Peter Fox •Stephan Zednik

Ocean Informatics Working Group, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution•Andrew Maffei

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S2S Overview

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Use Cases

• Faceted Browsing Interface– Search by award number and PI

– Search by geographic region and parameter

– Search by publication date

• Maintain current value chain– BCO-DMO acts as archivist, curator, and provider

• S2S enables…– Faceted browsing

– Discovery portals and self-deployed interfaces

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Research Methodology

Fox et al., 20095

Interaction Paradigm

ExView (Maffei et al., 2007) and 4DGeoBrowser (Lerner and Maffei, 2001)

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Framework Ontology

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Framework Architecture

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Prototype Implementation

Technology:

Data Resources:

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Summary

• Extensible Framework– Add web service standards– Add search and analysis widgets– Add data services

• Enables community development– Data managers– UI designers

• Uniform search interface– Customizable, reusable

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Future Work

• S2S evaluations (usability, extensibility)

• Implement additional web service standards – e.g., SAWSDL, SPARQL services, WPS

• S2S federated search interface

• S2S as a discovery interface

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References

• P. Fox, D. McGuinness, L. Cinquini, P. West, J. Garcia, J. Benedict, and D. Middleton, “Ontology-supported scientific data frameworks: The virtual solar-terrestrial observatory experience,” Computers and Geosciences, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 724 – 738, 2009.

• A. Maffei, S. Lerner, J. Lynch, A. Newhall, K. Fall, C. Sellers, Glenn, "ExView: A Real-time Collaboration Environment for Multi-ship Experiments," OCEANS 2007 - Europe, pp.1-6, 18-21 June 2007. doi: 10.1109/OCEANSE.2007.4302345

• S. Lerner, A. Maffei, “4DGeoBrowser: A Web-Based Data Browser and Server for Accessing and Analyzing Multi-Disciplinary Data”, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Technical Report, WHOI-2001-13, October 2001.

• McGuinness, D., Fox, P., Cinquini, L., West, P., Garcia, J., Benedict, J.L., Middleton, D.: The virtual solar-terrestrial observatory: A deployed semantic web application case study for scientific research. In: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Conference on In- novative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI 2007), Vancouver, BC, Canada (2007)

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Acknowledgements

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• Peter Fox• Patrick West• Stephan Zednik

Questions or Comments?Eric Rozell, rozele@rpi.edu

• Andrew Maffei• Stace Beaulieu• Ruth Curry• Steve Lerner• Cyndy Chandler• Maurice Tivey• Katherine Joyce• Mak Saito