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  • CDAWeb
  • Easy data browse and display, allowing
    user-specified time and parameter subsets with
    graphics, listings, file downloads
  • Multi-mission, multi-disciplinary, current data
  • 2.3 TB, 1,080,000 files, 300 public datasets
  • Now includes TIMED GUVI, TIDI data and graphics
  • Cassini / Transverse Mercator mapped projections
    of global wind vectors and Oxygen 1304Å
    intensities
  • SSCWeb
  • Multi-mission orbits, with graphics and
    conjunction logic for coordinated science
    planning
  • Ongoing updates
  • Java-based interactive 3-D orbits (TIPSOD)

2
  • CDF (Common Data Format)
  • Used by many missions
  • Vers. 3.0 (Feb 2005) gt 64-bit internal file
    model
  • Work with several science software packages (IDL,
    MatLab)
  • Data Format Translation Service
  • CDF lt-gt FITS, netCDF, HDF, ASCII
  • OMNIWeb
  • Field, plasma, particle hourly averages at 1 AU
  • COHOWeb and HelioWeb
  • Multi-mission deep-space fields, plasma,
    positions
  • FTPBrowser
  • Display system for ASCII-formatted data sets
  • Includes capability for filtering and
    scatter-plots
  • New Bow-Shock and Magnetopause Crossing Databases
    (King, Kessel, Papitashvili)
  • ModelWeb
  • Information, source codes, and ability to run
    select space physics models

3
  • Unique Community Resources
  • Scope of data holdings multi-mission services
  • SSCWeb database and unique functions supported
  • OMNI near-Earth 40-year interplanetary baseline
  • CDF supports multiple programs (including planned
    STEREO and THEMIS

4
  • Citations gt107 in 2003
  • Services data (W NSSDC)
  • Resources are heavily used (plots, lists, files,
    queries)
  • Many regular distinct science users e.g. 900
    CDAWeb
  • International sharing of data
  • Data include e.g. Cluster (as US CSDC) and
    Ulysses
  • CDAWeb mirror sites
  • Use variety of technologies
  • FTP access plus S/W (e.g. CDAWLib and CDFX)
  • Html-based user I/F
  • Web-services application I/F
  • New Java-based clients (with Webstart
    installations)
  • CDAWLib and CDAWeb s/w are now open-source

5
Relevance and Role in eGY
  • Powerful collection of existing capabilities
  • Already serving current data and orbit
    information from most NASA and other space
    physics missions, as well as some ground-based
    data
  • Data and capabilities are available both through
    direct web and/or Java user interfaces and
    substantially also through network-accessible
    APIs to support services and clients including
    those of the proposed NASA Virtual Discipline
    Observatories (VxOs)
  • Already multiple international mirror sites
  • Core CDAWeb s/w and the underlying CDF standard
    data format s/w are now open source
  • Current S3C Active Archive services such as
    CDAWeb and SSCWeb are fully capable and expected
    to support additional new missions
  • Highly extensible to support additional data from
    existing missions and a wide range of other new
    data sources
  • With limited resources, science data providers
    should first focus to producing and validating
    basic data
  • Efforts like those of SPDF/S3CAA can then point
    to these products and sites or work these data
    products in turn to uniformize their formats and
    serve them as an integrated part of existing
    multi-mission, multi-disciplinary capabilities
  • Where data are already or can be made public at
    least by simple FTP/HTTP directories
  • New CDAWeb Plus interface now capable of offering
    users an integrated view and data retrieval from
    distributed data sources in a CDAWeb paradigm
    I.e. from multiple sources in a single user
    request

6
Future Paradigms
  • Virtual Observatories in S3C
  • Virtual Discipline Observatory (VxO) paradigm for
    Sun-Space-Geospace research community might be
    defined as a vision of a future Solar-Terrestrial
    data environment
  • Where data, models and services can be highly
    distributed
  • While end users see an integrated view, and where
  • All potentially-useful data are findable,
    accessible, useable
  • Appropriate services across mission-instrument
    boundaries
  • Organized and customized to specific science
    discipline needs
  • Sun Solar System Great Observatory
  • Fleet of existing missions is the foundation for
    the initial spiral in pursuing the NASAs
    exploration initiative
  • Living With a Star (LWS)
  • International ILWS, IHY and eGY

SPDF/S3CAA Strategy
7
Next Steps
  • Advertising and Dialogue
  • eGY and other programs need to understand what
    SPDF/S3CAA has to contribute
  • SPDF/S3CAA needs to understand If/ what eGY and
    its science community can utilize and how
  • And what more or different might be more useful
  • Data Perspective
  • First necessity for maximum utility is enabling
    useful access to the right data from a full range
    of relevant data sources
  • Right Current, high-resolution, high-quality,
    useful parameters
  • Science function to define in detail right and
    relevant
  • Cooperative effort with distributed community of
    data generators/providers and other data
    services, including VxO discipline groups as
    these become active
  • Technical Perspective
  • Maintain the core of present capabilities
  • Do what is necessary to support new data
  • Includes ongoing effort to keep CDF modern
  • Special emphasis on new missions but also range
    of potential international data sources relevant
    to NASA science
  • Complete implementation of webservices APIs
  • Key to distributed access and evolution of
    services
  • Continue enhancements to interfaces and functions

8
SECAA Services in the Context of VxOs
  • Virtual Observatory (VO) paradigm for
    Sun-Space-Geospace research community might be
    defined as a vision of a future Solar-Terrestrial
    data environment
  • Where data, models and services can be highly
    distributed
  • While end users see an integrated view, and where
  • All potentially-useful data are readily findable,
    accessible, useable
  • With appropriate services and across
    mission-instrument boundaries
  • VO is similar to the Virtual Space Laboratory
    concept proposed several years ago as a Roadmap
    effort
  • VxO strategy to build the new data environment by
    leveraging existing capabilities, while those
    capabilities evolve in turn to talk to the new
    data environment
  • Want a flexible long-term architecture delivering
    over time the best services at the lowest
    effective cost
  • Technology gt hybrid solution with both
    distributed and centralized service elements
    whose mix will change

9
Short-Term Plans
  • Retain (build) excellence utility of what
    works now
  • Must maintain performance and reliability
  • Access to more ( higher quality/content)
    ( distributed) data
  • New services (e.g. FTP Data Finder),
    functions and I/F flexibility
  • Data, models, and services through multiple paths
  • FTP (filess/w), service user-I/Fs (html, Java),
    Web Service APIs
  • Data and capabilities available to early SEC VxOs
  • Via Web Services with XML/WSDL-SOAP for
    communications, URL pointers to result files
    (data files or service products)
  • Exploit these extensions directly (Java-based
    clients, using WebStart for easy installation
    e.g. SSCWeb 3D interactive plots)
  • Support mapping to evolving SEC data dictionary
    (SPASE effort)

10
Virtual Observatory Technical Questions, Concerns
and Personal Observations
  • Technology is only one part of making the right
    data fully accessible to the required user
    community
  • Resource and cultural issues must have ongoing
    attention
  • Full data requirements to accomplish a science
    program (e.g. LWS) needed center-stage early
    within effective data policy framework
  • Software is only one part (if perhaps the most
    fun) of the problem
  • Primary consideration in implementing Virtual
    Observatories must be effective and adequate
    service to the end users of the data
  • Users need ability to perform a full range of
    functions
  • Users need to be able to accomplish functions
    quickly
  • Users need to be able to perform functions
    predictably
  • What worked yesterday should work today
  • Software libraries and simple file
    finding/retrieval can offer high functional
    (analysis) capabilities
  • But software takes time to install and learn to
    operate
  • May not readily integrate data from different
    sources
  • May have issues with platforms and reliance on
    commercial s/w
  • Many users want/need more than simple file
    finding and retrieval (even with supporting s/w)
  • And need functions across mission / dataset
    boundaries

11
Contact information mailtorobert.e.mcguire
_at_nasa.gov
  • Not everything may make sense to distribute
  • User wall-clocktime is the most valuable
    commodity
  • Plus development and maintenance resources of
    couse
  • WAN transfer times are still a design issue
  • Often better to store multi-source data at the
    service host
  • Data service architecture with almost all work
    done at the server end and talking to thin (very
    basic browser) clients is fairly robust
  • Can be made to work almost every time for almost
    everybody
  • Duplicated" disk storage is one more tool (and
    OK if it works)
  • Can allow less complex s/w development and
    maintenance
  • Allows work offline preparing diverse data for
    common service
  • NASA science research community uses (and will
    use) many distinct operating systems (and
    versions), hardware and software platforms
  • Complex functionality built on distributed data
    and smart desktop clients will present
    cross-platform and maintenance challenges
  • E.g. Web services to talk to both Java and .NET
    clients
  • E.g. Testing for client development and support
    for easy installation across multiple platforms
  • E.g. Deployed web services infrastructure may
    become hard to change or evolve (as technology
    evolves, as new requirements are identified) as
    more clients are developed
  • Were changing our web service I/F but are you
    able/willing to change your client as we change
    and evolve over time?
  • KISS will always be important for effective
    services, software installation/operation and
    interfaces

12
See Landscape for overall poster layout and
printing instructions
13
The Redesigned SPDF Website
  • The Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF) at Goddard
    has just opened a revamped website both to
    enhance more unified access to the services
    funded under the Sun Solar System Connection
    Active Archive (S3CAA) effort as well as other
    activities and services with SPDF.
  • The website features a Data and Orbits
    interactive page that allows users to readily
    identify which services support data from which
    missions
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