The National Oceanographic Data Center

A Virtual Oceanographic Data Center

Oceanographic datacenters at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are geographically sparse and disparate in their technological strengths and standardization on common Internet data formats. Virtualized search across these national assets would significantly benefit the oceans research community. To date, the lack of common software infrastructure and open APIs to access th...

U.S. National Oceanographic Data Center Archival Practices and the Open Archives Information System Reference Model

This paper describes relationships between the Open Archival Information System Reference Model (OAIS RM) and the archival practices of the NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). The OAIS RM defines a thorough approach to defining the processes, entities, and framework for maintaining digital information in an electronic archival environment without defining how to implement the framew...

National Center for Health Statistics Data Line.

Together with representatives of Canada, England, and Wales, NCHS will hold a planning workshop in early 1990 to provide a foundation and mechanism for international collaborative research on high priority health issues. The workshop will provide a forum for supporting international health statistics programs; evaluating the utility of various statistical programs; and recommending their improv...

GeoZui3D: Data Fusion for Interpreting Oceanographic Data

GeoZui3D stands for Geographic Zooming User Interface. It is a new visualization software system designed for interpreting multiple sources of 3D data. The system supports gridded terrain models, triangular meshes, curtain plots, and a number of other display objects. A novel center of workspace interaction method unifies a number of aspects of the interface. It creates a simple viewpoint contr...

Major data systems of the National Center for Health Statistics.