HESPERIA: a multidisciplinary group-oriented information system for paleoclimatology

HESPERIA is an information system for helping in the collaborative research of a multidisciplinary group in the paleoclimatology field. While there exist international databases and information systems that provide long-term storage of georeferenced data, they cannot be used during the research stage, since they are limited to published data. The system is designed to manage a collaborative project, keeping track of the shared seabed samples, providing visual analysis and giving the possibility of using partial results. The basic technical structure corresponds to a three-tiered client/server architecture that assures scalability and eases long-term maintenance requirements