Services and Perspectives Towards the Future SEC Data Environment

The next advances in Sun-Earth Connections (SEC) / Solar-Terrestrial science require an increasingly integrated and transparent data environment, where data can be easily accessed and used across the boundaries of both missions and traditional disciplines. The Coordinated Data Analysis [Workshop] Web (CDAWeb) and Satellite Situation Center Web (SSCWeb), critically supported by the Common Data Format (CDF) effort, are important current examples suggestive of the scope and functionality needed in the future and are among the first working prototypes for delivering the class of integrated, multi-mission data view essential to the programs like Living with a Star (LWS). CDAWeb supports graphics and data retrieval from a unique database of current multi-mission Sun-Earth-Connections (SEC) data. The Satellite Situation Center Web (SSCWeb) serves satellite orbits and various multi-mission conjunctions queries. Both are supported by CDF as the underlying standard format and a range of working utilities. As one part of this paper, we will present the capabilities, accomplishments and evolutionary directions for CDAWeb and SSCWeb and their technologies. But building on this background and our overall role as a center for SEC active science data archiving, we will also review a broader range of issues and challenges towards a more comprehensive approach to data management and data services planning across the disciplines and missions of SEC Supported by the NASA Office of Space Science, CDAWeb, SSCWeb and CDF are joint efforts of the NASA GSFC Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF) and the National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC). Please also see related presentations in this session on CDF and the new "TIPSOD" SOAP-based enhancements to SSCWeb.