A Component And Query Approach For Scientific Data Exploration Applications

The immense increase of scientific databases, combined with the spread of open standards for service interfaces, has resulted in unprecedented opportunities of data exploration and exploitation for scientists. From a client point of view, scientists often perform data combination and analysis, based on interactive incremental refinement and visualization. While this abstract description applies to virtually any science, the concrete presentation of data and queries offered varies greatly across the individual domains. The result is a repetitive effort in crafting streamlined client interfaces, which is particular tedious in face of interactive graphics. We address this problem by establishing a modular Web client toolkit offering common analysis input and output widgets. The backend generates database queries from the input and displays query results through the output widgets. We present this toolkit, its first implementation version, and an earth science scenario using an Array Database System as retrieval backend. © 2011 IEEE.IEEE Comput. Soc. Tech. Comm. Bus. Informatics Syst. (TCBIS)Eason, G., Noble, B., Sneddon, I.N., On certain integrals of Lipschitz-Hankel type involving products of Bessel functions (1955) Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, A247, pp. 529-551. , AprilAdaguc, , adaguc.knmi.nl/. Last seen April 16, 2010Baumann, P., The OGC Web Coverage Processing Service (WCPS) Standard (2009) Geoinformatica, , http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10707-009-0087-2Baumann, P., (2008) Web Coverage Processing Service (WCPS) Language Interface Specification, , OGC 08-068r2Baumann, P., Large-Scale Raster Services: A Case for Databases (2006) LNCS, 4231, pp. 75-84. , (invited keynote). John Roddick et al (eds): Advances in Conceptual Modeling - Theory and Practice, Proc. CoMoGIS, Tucson, USA, 6 - 9 November 2006, Springer 2006Baumann, P., (2010) GML 3.2.1 Application Schema for Coverages, , OGC 09-146r1Bing Maps, , www.bing.com/maps/, Last seen August 2, 2010COM - Component Object Model, , www.microsoft.com/com/, Last seen August 10, 2010www.earthlook.org, Last seen August 21, 2010GenBank, , www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Genbank/, Last seen April 16, 2010GeoSciML, , www.geosciml.org/, Last seen April 16, 2010Google Maps, , maps.google.com/. Last seen July 20, 2010Hamilton, G., (1997) JavabeansTM Specification 1.01 Final Release, , java.sun.com/javase/technologies/desktop/javabeans/docs/spec.html, Last seen June 10, 2010MapAPlanet, , www.mapaplanet.org/, Last seen April 16, 2010MegDB, , www.megx.net/, Last seen April 16, 2009Microformats, , microformats.org. Last seen August 21, 2010www.opengeospatial.org, Last seen August 18, 2010(2006) Meta Object Facility (MOF) Core Specification, , OMG, Version 2.0. Object Management GroupOpenLayers, , openlayers.org/. Last seen July 10, 2010Pangaea, , www.pangaea.de/, Last seen April 16, 2010Parrish, R., (2001) XPCOM Part 1: An Introduction to XPCOM, , www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/co-xpcom.html, Last seen August 19, 2010Pastorello Jr., G.Z., Medeiros, C.B., Santanchè, A., Accessing and processing sensing data (2008) CSE '08: Proc. of the 2008 11th IEEE Int. Conf. on Computational Science and Engineering, Washington, DC, USA, pp. 353-360www.rasdaman.org, Last seen August 21, 2010Santanche, A., Medeiros, C.B., A component model and infrastructure for a fluid Web (2007) IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 19 (2), pp. 324-341. , DOI 10.1109/TKDE.2007.16Santanchè, A., Medeiros, C.B., Pastorello Jr., G.Z., User-author centered multimedia building blocks (2007) Multimedia Systems, 12 (4), pp. 403-421Senselab, , senselab.med.yale.edu/. Last seen April 16, 2010Sloan, , www.sdss.org/, Last seen April 16, 2010Smith, K., Simplifying Ajax-Style Web Development (2006) Computer, 39 (5), pp. 98-101Yahoo Local Maps, , maps.yahoo.com. Last seen June 10, 2010Yu, J., Benatallah, B., Casati, F., Daniel, F., Understanding Mashup Development (2008) Internet Computing, 12 (5), pp. 44-52. , IEEEBaumann, P., WCS Processing Extension Standard, , OGC 08-059r3Baumann, P., Owonibi, M., WPS Application Profile for WCPS, , OGC 09-04