Title
VxOware: software for managing virtual observatory metadata
Abstract
The recent Heliophysics Virtual Observatory (VxO) effort involves the development of separate observatories with a low overlap in physical domain or area of scientific specialization and a high degree of overlap in metadata management needs. VxOware is a content and metadata management system. While it is intended for use by a VxO specifically, it can also be used by any entity that manages structured metadata. VxOware has many features of a content management system and extensively uses the W3C recommendations for XML (Extensible Markup Language), XQuery (XML Query), and XSLT (Extensible Style Sheet Language Transformations). VxOware has features such as system and user administration, search, user-editable content, version tracking, and a wiki. Besides virtual observatories, the intended user-base of VxOware includes a group or an instrument team that has developed a directory structure of data files and would like to make this data, and its associated metadata, available in the virtual observatory network. One of the most powerful features of VxOware is the ability to link any type of object in the observatory to other objects and the ability for every object to be tagged.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/s12145-010-0048-1
Earth Science Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
extensible markup language
Metadata repository,Metadata,World Wide Web,Information retrieval,Computer science,Data element,Style sheet,Metadata management,XSLT,Virtual observatory,XQuery
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
3
1-2
1865-0481
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Robert S. Weigel161.20
Mikhail N. Zhizhin2103.32
Dmitry Mishin393.35
Dmitry Kokovin400.34
Eric A. Kihn5103.65
Jeremy Faden650.77