A scientific digital library in context: an Earth Radiation Budget Experiment collection in the Atmospheric Sciences Data Center digital library

Author

Ferebee, Michelle ; Boeshaar, Gregory ; Bush, Kathryn ; Hertz, Judy

Author_Institution

Atmos. Sci. Data Center, NASA Langley Res. Center, Hampton, VA, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

31-31 May 2003

Firstpage

256

Lastpage

257

Abstract

At the NASA Langley Research Center, the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) Data Management Team and the Atmospheric Sciences Data Center are developing a digital collection for the ERBE project. The main goal is long-term preservation of a comprehensive information environment. The secondary goal is to provide a context for these data products by centralizing the 25-year research project´s scattered information elements. The development approach incorporates elements of rapid prototyping and user-centered design in a standards-based implementation. A working prototype is in testing with a small number of users.

Keywords

atmospheric radiation; climatology; digital libraries; geophysics computing; scientific information systems; software prototyping; user centred design; Atmospheric Sciences Data Center; Data Management Team; Earth Radiation Budget Experiment; Earth climate system; NASA Langley Research Center; long-term data preservation; rapid prototyping; scientific digital library; standards-based implementation; user-centered design; Calibration; Financial management; Geoscience; NASA; Project management; Prototypes; Scattering; Software libraries; User centered design; Variable speed drives;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Libraries, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 Joint Conference on

Conference_Location

Houston, TX, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1939-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/JCDL.2003.1204932

Filename

1204932