Semantic Data Frameworks--Experiences with Virtual Observatories in Geosciences

Peter Fox (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

CSIRO ICT

DATE: 2009-12-03
TIME: 11:00:00 - 12:00:00
LOCATION: CSIRO Seminar Room S206 Building 108
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ABSTRACT:
This talk will discuss data discovery, access and sharing via Virtual Observatories over recent years. In particular, it will focus on the Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory. The VSTO is a unified semantic environment serving data from diverse data archives in the fields of solar, solar-terrestrial, and space physics (SSTSP), including Upper atmosphere data from the CEDAR (Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions) archive and Solar corona data from the MLSO (Mauna Loa Solar Observatory) archive.
BIO:
Professor Peter Fox, now of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Tetherless World Constellation in the US (and previously of UCAR, University Corporation for Atmosperic Research) is known for his work in applications of ontologies to e-science, especially virtual observatories. He is also president of OPeNDAP which has developed standards used by NASA and NOAA to serve satellite, weather and other observed earth science data. See http://tw.rpi.edu/wiki/Peter_Fox

Peter is available for discussions and meetings from 2--4 December. Contact Kerry Taylor 6216 7038 mailto:Kerry.Taylor@csiro.au to arrange.