creators_name: McCleese, Sean creators_name: Mattmann, Chris creators_name: Raskin, Rob creators_name: Crichton, Dan creators_name: Hardman, Sean type: conference_item datestamp: 2009-04-21 08:17:46 lastmod: 2009-04-21 08:17:48 metadata_visibility: show title: A Virtual Oceanographic Data Center ispublished: pub full_text_status: none pres_type: paper abstract: Oceanographic datacenters at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are geographically sparse and disparate in their technological strengths and standardization on common Internet data formats. Virtualized search across these national assets would significantly benefit the oceans research community. To date, the lack of common software infrastructure and open APIs to access the data and descriptive metadata available at each site has precluded virtualized search. In this paper, we describe a nascent effort, called the Virtual Oceanographic Data Center, or VODC, whose goals are to overcome the challenge of virtualized search and data access across oceanographic data centers, and to provide a common and reusable capability for increasing access to large catalogs of NASA oceanographic data. date: 2009-04 event_title: 18th International World Wide Web Conference event_location: Madrid, Spain event_dates: April 20th-24th, 2009 event_type: conference refereed: TRUE citation: McCleese, Sean and Mattmann, Chris and Raskin, Rob and Crichton, Dan and Hardman, Sean (2009) A Virtual Oceanographic Data Center. In: 18th International World Wide Web Conference, April 20th-24th, 2009, Madrid, Spain.