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A Framework for Earth Science Search Interface Development. Designing and Implementing S2S. Eric Rozell, Tetherless World Constellation, RPI. Outline. S2S Overview Motivations & Use Cases Research & Development Methodology Framework Architecture Prototype Implementation
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A Framework for Earth Science Search Interface Development Designing and Implementing S2S Eric Rozell, Tetherless World Constellation, RPI
Outline • S2S Overview • Motivations & Use Cases • Research & Development Methodology • Framework Architecture • Prototype Implementation • Results & Future Work
S2S Overview • Supports reuse of user interface components (“widgets”) • Uniform search interface for semantically-annotated web services • Applies ontology to describe the application framework
Motivations • Incentivize compliance to web service standards • Assist data management communities in search interface development • Lay foundations for federated search and data integration • Enable community development
Research Methodology Fox et al., 2009
Development Methodology ExView (Maffei et al., 2007) and 4DGeoBrowser (Lerner and Maffei, 2001)
Prototype Implementation Technology: Data Resources:
Results • Extensible Framework • Add web service standards • Add search and analysis widgets • Add data services • Enables community development • Data managers • UI designers • Uniform search interface • Customizable, reusable
Future Work • Implement additional web service standards • e.g., SAWSDL, SPARQL services, OGC standards • S2S as a discovery interface • S2S as a federated search environment • S2S evaluations (usability, extensibility) • VSTO Evaluation Metrics (McGuinness et al., 2007)
References • P. Fox, D. McGuinness, L. Cinquini, P. West, J. Garcia, J. Benedict, and D. Middleton, “Ontology-supported scientific data frameworks: The virtual solar-terrestrial observatory experience,” Computers and Geosciences, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 724 – 738, 2009. • A. Maffei, S. Lerner, J. Lynch, A. Newhall, K. Fall, C. Sellers, Glenn, "ExView: A Real-time Collaboration Environment for Multi-ship Experiments," OCEANS 2007 - Europe, pp.1-6, 18-21 June 2007. doi: 10.1109/OCEANSE.2007.4302345 • S. Lerner, A. Maffei, “4DGeoBrowser: A Web-Based Data Browser and Server for Accessing and Analyzing Multi-Disciplinary Data”, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Technical Report, WHOI-2001-13, October 2001. • McGuinness, D., Fox, P., Cinquini, L., West, P., Garcia, J., Benedict, J.L., Middleton, D.: The virtual solar-terrestrial observatory: A deployed semantic web application case study for scientific research. In: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Conference on In- novative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI 2007), Vancouver, BC, Canada (2007)
Research Area • SemWeb Tech. in Web Application Framework design • Distributed Software Frameworks • Cyberinfrastructure • GeoData2011, USGS cyberinfrastructure callout
Research Area • Data Discovery, Use & Integration • S2S currently works as data inventory search • Data discovery involves more sophisticated techniques • Use Case: thermocline in Southern Mariana Trough • Semantic Search • ESIP Discovery Cluster • Widgets for integration & analysis