An XML-based distributed metadata server (DIMES) supporting Earth science metadata

Ruixin Yang, Xinhua Deng, M. Kafatos, Changzhou Wang, X. Wang
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With explosively increasing volumes of remote sensing, modelling and other Earth science data available, and the popularity of the Internet, scientists are now facing challenges to publish and to find interesting data sets effectively and efficiently. Metadata has been recognized as a key technology to ease the searching and retrieval of Earth science data. In this paper, we discuss the DIMES (DIstributed MEtadata Server) prototype system. Designed to be flexible yet simple, DIMES uses XML to represent, store, retrieve and interoperate metadata in a distributed environment. DIMES accepts metadata in any well-formed XML format and thus assumes the "tree" semantics of metadata entries. Additional domain knowledge can be represented as specific links through XML's ID/IDREF mechanism. DIMES provides a number of mechanisms, including the "nearest-neighbor search", to navigate and to search metadata. Though started for the Earth science community, DIMES can be easily extended to serve scientific communities in other disciplines.
支持地球科学元数据的基于xml的分布式元数据服务器(DIMES)
随着遥感、建模和其他地球科学数据的爆炸性增长,以及互联网的普及,科学家们现在面临着有效和高效地发布和发现有趣数据集的挑战。元数据已被认为是简化地球科学数据搜索和检索的关键技术。本文讨论了分布式元数据服务器(DIMES)原型系统。DIMES的设计灵活而简单,它使用XML在分布式环境中表示、存储、检索和互操作元数据。DIMES接受任何格式良好的XML格式的元数据,因此假设元数据条目的“树”语义。其他领域知识可以通过XML的ID/IDREF机制表示为特定的链接。DIMES提供了许多机制,包括“最近邻搜索”,用于导航和搜索元数据。虽然DIMES是为地球科学界启动的,但它可以很容易地扩展到为其他学科的科学界服务。
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