Enabling Linguistic Analysis of Scientific Metadata through Internationalizing NASA JPL´s PODAAC

This paper describes the iPReS project, which provides a web service-based framework for i18n-type (internationalized) access to scientific data products and product metadata contained within the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center, otherwise known as PO.DAAC. PO.DAAC is an element of the EOSDIS, which freely provides science data to the global community of users. The mission of the PO.DAAC is to preserve the quality of NASA´s oceanic and climate data and make these universally accessible. iPReS directly shadows this mission objective.