Computer Science – Information Retrieval
Scientific paper
2009-07-31
Computer Science
Information Retrieval
10 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Computers and Geosciences
Scientific paper
Planetary sciences can benefit from several different sources of information, i.e. ground-based or near Earth-based observations, space missions and laboratory experiments. The data collected from these sources, however, are spread over a number of smaller, separate communities and stored through different facilities: this makes it difficult to integrate them. The IDIS initiative, born in the context of the Europlanet project, performed a pilot study of the viability and the issues to be overcome in order to create an integrated search system for planetary data. As part of the results of such pilot study, the IDIS Small Bodies and Dust node developed a search system based on a preliminary XML data model. Here we introduce the goals of the IDIS initiative and describe the structure and the working of this search system. The source code of the search system is released under GPL license to allow people interested in participating to the IDIS initiative both as developers and as data providers to familiarise with the search environment and to allow the creation of volunteer nodes to be integrated into the existing network.
Carraro Francesco
de Sanctis Maria Cristina
Fonte Sergio
Giacomini Livia
Turrini Diego
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