Archive for Geophysical Research - Implementing the Digital Archiving and Long-Term Preservation Framework

2006 Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting
March 7-11, 2006, Chicago, IL

MM Dailey

Dept of Geosciences, Oregon State Univ

Corvallis, OR 97331-5506

dailemic@geo.oregonstate.edu

DJ Wright

Dept of Geosciences, Oregon State Univ

MH Edwards

Hawai'i Mapping Research Group

UH-SOEST, Honolulu, HI 96822

PJ Johnson

Hawai'i Mapping Research Group

Oregon State University and the University of Hawaii have formed a partnership to create the Arctic Archive for Geophysical Research: Unlocking Undersea Knowledge (AAGRUUK) with the support of the National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs. The purpose of AAGRUUK is to develop and maintain a unified community database to promote collaborative research and multidisciplinary studies and foster new scientific insights for the Arctic Basin. The preliminary contents of the archive include bathymetric, side scan sonar, and sub-bottom data.

The organization of AAGRUUK is comprised of linking distributed databases through the web via a portal that contains key information, links, and search engines maintained by people familiar with the data sets. The infrastructure uses MapServer and Storage Resource Broker software to identify and harvest data over the network. This presentation will describe the technical aspects of this infrastructure by reviewing the AAGRUUK example and the specific software components.

Though AAGRUUK is in its initial stages of development, the integrated bathymetric data for the Alaska margin has increased the coverage of any one individual dataset by several orders of magnitude showing strong potential for illuminating scientific investigations. It will be demonstrated how the technical infrastructure, including MapServer and Storage Resource Broker, has facilitated this process.

Keywords: web, database, map, Arctic, bathymetry

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