Exploring NBII's New Metadata Clearinghouse Interface
Exploring NBII's New Metadata Clearinghouse Interface
Exploring NBII's New Metadata Clearinghouse Interface
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Nuts and Bolts of the NBII <strong>Clearinghouse</strong><br />
The NBII <strong>Clearinghouse</strong> is powered by Mercury:<br />
- metadata harvesting, search and retrieval tool<br />
- single portal to information contained in disparate data<br />
management systems<br />
- originally developed for NASA, with continuing development<br />
funded by NASA, USGS, and DOE for a consortium of projects<br />
Mercury supports various metadata<br />
standards:<br />
- XML, Z39.50, FGDC, Dublin-Core,<br />
Darwin-Core, EML, and ISO-19115<br />
- based on open source and Service<br />
Oriented Architecture (Solr and Lucene)<br />
to provide multiples search services
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