NASA Scientific Digital Library Prototype
Posted by judy on 10.21.08 11:48AM under web development
I worked with the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE) Data Management Team and the Atmospheric Sciences Data Center to develop a digital library prototype for the 25-year ERBE research program. The program uses satellites to measure the radiative energy balance between solar radiation absorbed by the Earth and thermal radiation emitted back into space.
Tasks included planning for digitizing and ingesting legacy data, integrating NASA scientific thesaurii and taxonomies, long-term stewardship and migration strategies, search optimization, and standards-based development (accessibility, W3C validated markup, standardized metadata), all with an emphasis on user-centered design.
We used Open Text Corporation’s Livelink Discovery Server software (was BRS/Search) for the prototype, on a Sun Solaris server, the Apache webserver, and PERL for preparing and processing database content. All HTML/XHTML was WC3 validated. Developed for client Science Applications International Corp. under contract to NASA Langley Research Center (2003).
