CHRONOS architecture: Experiences with an open-source services-oriented architecture for geoinformatics
Computers & Geosciences
By: D. Fils, C. Cervato, J. Reed, P. Diver, X. Tang, G. Bohling, and D. Greer
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Abstract
CHRONOS's purpose is to transform Earth history research by seamlessly integrating stratigraphic databases and tools into a virtual on-line stratigraphic record. In this paper, we describe the various components of CHRONOS's distributed data system, including the encoding of semantic and descriptive data into a service-based architecture. We give examples of how we have integrated well-tested resources available from the open-source and geoinformatic communities, like the GeoSciML schema and the simple knowledge organization system (SKOS), into the services-oriented architecture to encode timescale and phylogenetic synonymy data. We also describe on-going efforts to use geospatially enhanced data syndication and informally including semantic information by embedding it directly into the XHTML Document Object Model (DOM). XHTML DOM allows machine-discoverable descriptive data such as licensing and citation information to be incorporated directly into data sets retrieved by users. ?? 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | CHRONOS architecture: Experiences with an open-source services-oriented architecture for geoinformatics |
| Series title | Computers & Geosciences |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.cageo.2008.02.035 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Year Published | 2009 |
| Language | English |
| Larger Work Type | Article |
| Larger Work Subtype | Journal Article |
| Larger Work Title | Computers and Geosciences |
| First page | 774 |
| Last page | 782 |
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