Archiving NEES Geospatial Data

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Archiving NEES Geospatial Data

• Providing Data with Geospatial Attributes

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NEES Guidelines For Dissemination

• NEES funding and by-law requirements
• All experimental results will be archived
• Thorough Data and Metadata (reproducible)
• All available publicly
• Immediate and post-publication
• Some data may only be available after two years.
• No requirement as to format and method
• Proprietary tools based on OWL

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Archiving and Disseminating

• Two essential tasks
• Storing data, first priority
• Making it available, second
• Requires OWL Ontology
• Ontologies for Tsunami, Centrifuge
• Geotechnical under development
• Eventually, dissemination through Semantic Web
• Will geospatial attributes suffice to query?
• Service Oriented Architecture
• View entire metadata archive as one XML document

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Kinds of Geospatial Data

• UCSB Permanently Instrumented Sites
• Geotechnical logs
• Seismic events
• UCLA Field Performance Monitoring
• Geotechnical Logs
• Forced Vibration Testing
• Structural Monitoring
• UTEXAS Large Scale Shakers
• Forced Vibration Testing

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NEES Metadata Browser
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NEES Metadata Browser, cont.

• Available through the NEESpop/CHEF environment
• Ability to extract data from .xls, other formats
• Search capabilities under development
• Extraction capabilities? OWL only?
• Few OWL/Semantic Web applications

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Geotechnical Ontology - Example

• Developed using Protégé
• Based on COSMOS Schema
• Using available classes for persons, locations,
  etc.

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Conclusions

• Geotechnical data will be thoroughly collected
• Eventually, all data publicly available
• Dissemination eventually

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References

• NEES 2nd Annual Convention Meetings
  http//www.nees.org/NCI/meetings/annual_mtg2/docs/
  proceedings2.pdf
• NEES Data Sharing and Archiving
  Committeehttp//www.nees.org/NCI/committees/DSA/
  index.html
• Vision of NEES Collaboratoryhttp//www.nees.org/
  CD/task_groups/docs/VisionWhitePaperV3.pdf
• Web Ontology Guidehttp//www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-
  owl-guide-20040210/
• The Semantic Webhttp//www.sciam.com/article.cfm
  ?articleID00048144-10D2-1C70-84A9809EC588EF21
• Protégéhttp//protege.stanford.edu