Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory
The Virtual Solar-Terrestrial Observatory (VSTO) is a unified semantic environment serving data from diverse data archives in the fields of solar, solar-terrestrial, and space physics (SSTSP).
From the web site: "The VSTO portal uses an underlying ontology (i.e. an organized knowledge base of the SSTSP domain) to present a general interface that allows selection and retrieval of products (ascii and binary data files, images, plots) from heterogenous external data services."
VSTO is one of the first environmental science organizations to develop a pervasive ontology-based system for classifying and searching content. This approach is in production use for accessing the VSTO data.
Maturity Estimate:
Operational
Posted January 23rd, 2008 by kwalz
