CHRONOS architecture: Experiences with an open-source services-oriented architecture for geoinformatics
CHRONOS's purpose is to transform Earth history research by seamlessly integrating stratigraphic databases and tools into a virtual on-line stratigraphic record. In this paper, we describe the various components of CHRONOS's distributed data system, including the encoding of semantic and descriptive data into a service-based architecture. We give examples of how we have integrated well-tested resources available from the open-source and geoinformatic communities, like the GeoSciML schema and the simple knowledge organization system (SKOS), into the services-oriented architecture to encode timescale and phylogenetic synonymy data. We also describe on-going efforts to use geospatially enhanced data syndication and informally including semantic information by embedding it directly into the XHTML Document Object Model (DOM). XHTML DOM allows machine-discoverable descriptive data such as licensing and citation information to be incorporated directly into data sets retrieved by users. ?? 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Citation Information
Publication Year | 2009 |
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Title | CHRONOS architecture: Experiences with an open-source services-oriented architecture for geoinformatics |
DOI | 10.1016/j.cageo.2008.02.035 |
Authors | D. Fils, C. Cervato, J. Reed, P. Diver, X. Tang, G. Bohling, D. Greer |
Publication Type | Article |
Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
Series Title | Computers & Geosciences |
Index ID | 70035065 |
Record Source | USGS Publications Warehouse |