SPASE 2.0: a standard data model for space physics

King, Todd; Thieman, J. R.; Roberts, D. A.

doi:10.1007/s12145-010-0053-4

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“…The IUGONET MDDB is built as a metadata repository based on the Space Physical Archive Search and Extract (SPASE, King et al 2010) model, which is widely used in the international STP community, such as NASA's VxOs. While the primary focus of the VxO projects is on satellite data, the IUGONET has made a systematic effort to acquire data resources from assorted groundbased instrumentation, including the digitization of analog data stored on paper and magnetic tapes.…”

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The capacity-building and science-enabling activities of the IUGONET for the solar-terrestrial research community

Yatagai

Sato

Shinbori

et al. 2015

Earth Planets Space

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Background: This paper presents an overview of the capacity-building activities and science-enabling services of the Inter-university Upper atmosphere Global Observation NETwork (IUGONET) project. This Japanese program, which started in 2009, is building a metadata database (MDDB) of ground-based observations and is developing an analysis software to handle the data linked to the MDDB system for use by the solar-terrestrial physics community. Because the institutional members of the IUGONET are mainly universities in Japan, we explore tools that can contribute to advanced education as well as promote research activities. Findings: In this paper, we describe the utilities of the IUGONET for education, including our capacity-building activities in developing countries. We have regularly facilitated training seminars for Japanese students on the use of our tools (IUGONET MDDB and the software), and we have held capacity-building seminars for young scientists in developing countries. In addition to the MDDB, we have prepared various 'gateway' tools for users who are unfamiliar with 'keywords' to search for data. One of these is a geographical display tool that uses Google Earth (KML file), which is included as supplemental material to this paper. The usefulness of the IUGONET has been proven over its first 5 years of operation by the increasing number of its users, which has led to the production of approximately 500 scientific papers, including 42 thesis papers. Conclusions: The IUGONET community collaborates with the Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics program, not only in its scientific activities, but also in the establishment of E-infrastructure and capacity building.

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confidence: 99%

The capacity-building and science-enabling activities of the IUGONET for the solar-terrestrial research community

Yatagai

Sato

Shinbori

et al. 2015

Earth Planets Space

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“…For example, significant progress has been achieved in both the Japanese project for the Inter-university Upper atmosphere Global Observation NETwork (IUGONET) and its counterpart, the European Near-Earth Space Data Infrastructure for eSciences (ESPAS) project. Notably, there is now common use of the Space Physics Archive Search and Extract (SPASE; King et al 2010) metadata schema by VxOs (heliospheric, energetic particle, radiation belt, etc.) and IUGONET, which is expected to further contribute to the needed interoperability.…”

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eScience and Informatics for international science programs

Fox

Kozyra

2015

Prog. in Earth and Planet. Sci.

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Both eScience and Informatics, their conceptual approaches, methods, and extant technical solutions, are still relatively new approaches in many science fields. Collectively, they intend to facilitate the electronic conduct of science (eScience) and the application of foundational principles drawn from experience in a number of fields of Informatics (e.g., helioinformatics, geoinformatics, and climateinformatics). The Climate and Weather of the Sun-Earth System II (CAWSES II) eScience and Informatics effort had the goal of promoting an international virtual institute and several virtual observatories in order to advance system-level science investigations aligned with the four CAWSES II Task Groups. This contribution elaborates on the key elements of eScience and Informatics applicable to CAWSES II as a virtual organization in the context of the current science-data landscape. We examine what was adopted for CAWSES II and highlight the successes and challenges of the effort. Based on the lessons learned from this effort and other international communities, we present opportunities going forward that are relevant to both smaller collaborations and successor large-scale programs (such as the Variability of the Sun and Its Terrestrial Impact (VarSITI)) that are being recognized more as networks of science facilitated by a variety of modern information technologies.

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“…It is possible for users to search data by specifying keywords, the date and time, or location in geographic coordinates (or heliographic coordinates for solar data). The metadata format used for the IUGONET-MDB is based on the Space Physics Archive Search and Extract (SPASE) data model/metadata format, which we have slightly modified for the IUGONET's upper atmospheric data [13][14] . We have used DSpace (http://www.dspace.org/) as the IUGONET-MDB platform.…”

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Analysis software for upper atmospheric data developed by the IUGONET project and its application to polar science

Tanaka¹,

Shinbori²,

Hori³

et al. 2013

APS

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To comprehensively understand the Arctic and Antarctic upper atmosphere, it is often crucial to analyze various data that are obtained from many regions. Infrastructure that promotes such interdisciplinary studies on the upper atmosphere has been developed by a Japanese inter-university project called the Inter-university Upper atmosphere Global Observation Network (IUGONET). The objective of this paper is to describe the infrastructure and tools developed by IUGONET. We focus on the data analysis software. It is written in Interactive Data Language (IDL) and is a plug-in for the THEMIS Data Analysis Software suite (TDAS), which is a set of IDL libraries used to visualize and analyze satellite-and ground-based data. We present plots of upper atmospheric data provided by IUGONET as examples of applications, and verify the usefulness of the software in the study of polar science. We discuss IUGONET's new and unique developments, i.e., an executable file of TDAS that can run on the IDL Virtual Machine, IDL routines to retrieve metadata from the IUGONET database, and an archive of 3-D simulation data that uses the Common Data Format so that it can easily be used with TDAS.

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SPASE 2.0: a standard data model for space physics

Cited by 15 publications

References 2 publications

The capacity-building and science-enabling activities of the IUGONET for the solar-terrestrial research community

The capacity-building and science-enabling activities of the IUGONET for the solar-terrestrial research community

eScience and Informatics for international science programs

Analysis software for upper atmospheric data developed by the IUGONET project and its application to polar science

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