Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008agufmsa51b..04m&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2008, abstract #SA51B-04
Physics
2700 Magnetospheric Physics (6939), 2794 Instruments And Techniques
Scientific paper
Magnetospheric research is dependent on information about the state of the Sun, the solar wind, and the Earth's magnetosphere. Responsibility for acquiring, processing, and distribution of the data characterizing these regions is delegated to agencies, missions, projects, and individuals. In many countries it has or is becoming standard policy to make data acquired with government resources publicly available. This has led to a plethora of databases each with a different user interface, different data formats, and different rules governing the use of data. For those unfamiliar with the location of existing data it is virtually impossible to locate the data needed for a particular study. The concept of a virtual observatory (VxO), where the "x" represents a particular discipline, has recently been developed to solve this problem. In principle a VxO provides "one stop shopping" by providing the user with pointers to a variety of existing resources that satisfy a specific user query. The eventual goal is to make it possible to download the desired data with a minimum of effort. In this paper we report our efforts to illustrate this presentation using the Virtual Magnetospheric Observatory to acquire data familiar to us from other sources. Our initial efforts were unsuccessful! We could not find the appropriate buttons on the web site; there was no high level description of how the system functions; we could not determine the appropriate language to use in formulating a query; the system was not able to identify misspelled words; there was no obvious way to edit a query. These and other problems with the existing system will be discussed in this presentation. Hopefully user feedback will lead to modifications that will make the system more transparent.
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