Physics
Scientific paper
Dec 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010agufmsm31a1856k&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2010, abstract #SM31A-1856
Physics
[1916] Informatics / Data And Information Discovery, [1976] Informatics / Software Tools And Services, [2700] Magnetospheric Physics, [7900] Space Weather
Scientific paper
The Space Physics Interactive Data Resource (SPIDR) (http://spidr.ngdc.noaa.gov) is a web based application for searching, accessing and interacting with NOAA’s space related data holdings. SPIDR serves as one of several interfaces to the National Geophysical Data Center's archived digital holdings. The SPIDR system while successful in delivering data and visualization to clients was also found to be limited in its ability to interact with other programs, its ability to integrate with alternate work-flows and its support for multiple user interfaces (UI). As such in 2006 the SPIDR development team implemented a SOAP based interface to SPIDR through which outside developers could make use of the resource. It was our finding however that despite our best efforts at documentation, the interface remained elusive to many users. That is to say a few strong programmers were able to format and use the XML messaging but in general it did not make the data more accessible. In response SPIDR has been extended to include a REST style web services API for all time series data. This provides direct, synchronous, simple programmatic access to over 200 individual parameters representing space weather data directly from the NGDC archive. In addition to the data service SPIDR has implemented a metadata service which allows users to get Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC )style metadata records describing all available data and stations. This metadata will migrate to the NASA Space Physics Archive Search and Extract ( SPASE) style in future versions in order to provide further detail. The combination of data, metadata and visualization tools available through SPIDR combine to make it a powerful virtual observatory (VO). When this is combined with a content rich metadata system we have experience vastly greater user response and usage This talk will present details of the development as well as lessons learned from 10 years of SPIDR development.
Elespuru P. R.
Kihn E. A.
Zhizhin M.
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