The Planetary Data System Web catalog interface-another use of the Planetary Data System Data Model

Author

Hughes, J. Steven ; Bernath, Ann M.

Author_Institution

Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

fYear

1995

Firstpage

263

Lastpage

273

Abstract

The Planetary Data System (PDS) Data Model was presented at the Twelfth IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems. This data model is used to represent the metadata that describes entities within the planetary science community such as data sets, spacecraft, and targets, as well as the archive data products produced by the PDS such as images, spectra, series, and qubes. The paper describes a new use for the PDS Data Model, that of a source for generating Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) documents for access through World Wide Web (WWW) clients such as NCSA´s Mosaic. The PDS data set catalog, CD-ROM jukebox volume inventories, and the Planetary Science Data Dictionary are now represented in HTML and have been put on line for access via the Internet. This new interface has caused the number of users of the PDS data set catalog and requests for information to increase dramatically. In addition, new users in the educational community, at both the high school and university levels, have been added

Keywords

Internet; astronomy computing; data structures; hypermedia; online front-ends; planets; scientific information systems; CD-ROM jukebox volume inventories; Hypertext Markup Language document generation; Internet; Mosaic; Planetary Data System Data Model; Planetary Data System Web catalog interface; Planetary Science Data Dictionary; World Wide Web clients; archive data products; data set catalog; data sets; educational community; images; information requests; metadata; planetary science community; qubes; series; spacecraft; spectra; targets; CD-ROMs; Data models; Data systems; Dictionaries; HTML; Markup languages; New products catalog; Space vehicles; Web sites; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mass Storage Systems, 1995. 'Storage - At the Forefront of Information Infrastructures', Proceedings of the Fourteenth IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

ISSN

1051-9173

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7064-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MASS.1995.528236

Filename

528236