Data Management within the HELIO project
Abstract
The Heliophysics Integrated Observatory, HELIO, is creating a collaborative environment where scientists can discover, understand and model the connection between solar phenomena, inter-planetary disturbances and their effects on the planets. Of necessity HELIO has to address data providers in a number of different and well established communities, each with its own way of describing and handling the data; the capabilities of the providers and means of access to the data also vary considerably. HELIO is being developed around a service-oriented architecture and the search for interesting events an phenomena, and the task of then finding and retrieving the data has been split into a number of services that can be used either as part of a work flow or independently. We will describe the techniques that we are developing for the project and will also highlight some areas where a joint approach by the the wider community is required to address some issues. The type of access that HELIO will afford is also of interested to related communities, including the planetary and geo-sciences, and astrophysics. It is therefore important that the products of HELIO are interoperable those communities and where possible we have tried to build on standards developed by bodies such as the IVOA, IPDA, IAU, etc. HELIO is a research infrastructure funded under Capacities programme of the EC's 7th Frame-work Programme (FP7); the project started in June 2009 and has a duration of 36 months. The HELIO Consortium includes thirteen groups from the UK, France, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and the US.
- Publication:
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38th COSPAR Scientific Assembly
- Pub Date:
- 2010
- Bibcode:
- 2010cosp...38..813B