Distributed Information, Computation, and Process Management
for Scientific and Engineering Environments
(DICPM)

Background Material:

• National Science Foundation
  • Major Research Instrumentation Program (MRI)
  • Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training (IGERT)
  • Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)
    • Division of Advanced Computational Infrastructure and Research (ACIR)
      • Advanced Computational Research Program
    • Division of Advanced Networking Infrastructure and Research (ANIR)
      • Network Research Program
      • Special Projects in Networking and Communications
    • Division of Experimental and Integrative Activities (EIA)
      • Challenges in CISE
      • Experimental Activities Program
      • Digital Government
    • Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS)
      • Information and Data Management (IDM)
      • Special Projects Program
  • Directorate for Engineering (ENG)
    • Division of Civil and Mechanical Systems (CMS)
      • Control/Mechanics/Materials Program Cluster
    • The Division of Electrical and Communications Systems (ECS)
      • Integrative Systems Program
  • Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
    • Atmospheric Sciences Program (ATM)
  • Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)
    • Office of MultiDisciplinary Activities (OMA)
  • Office of Polar Programs (OPP)
    • Arctic Research and Policy
  
  
• Recommended Readings
  

  • The Digital Earth: Understanding Our Planet in the 21st Century, a speech by Vice-President Al Gore, California Science Center, Los Angeles, California, January 31, 1998.

  • President's Committee of Advisors for Science and Technology (PCAST), Teaming with Life: Investing in Science to Understand and Use America's Living Capital, March 1998.
  
  
• Relevant Workshops
  • Invitational NSF Workshop on Scientific Databases, Charlottesville, VA, March 1990, which resulted in an initiative on Scientific Databases.
    
    1. J. C. French, A. K. Jones, and J. L. Pfaltz, Scientific Database Management (Final Report), Technical Report CS-90-21, Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, August 1990. (14 pages)
       
       • ftp://ftp.cs.virginia.edu/pub/techreports/CS-90-21.ps.Z
       • ftp://ftp.cs.virginia.edu/pub/techreports/CS-90-21.txt.Z
         
    2. J. C. French, A. K. Jones, and J. L. Pfaltz, Scientific Database Management (Panel Reports and Supporting Material), Technical Report CS-90-22, Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, August 1990. (95 pages)
       
       • ftp://ftp.cs.virginia.edu/pub/techreports/CS-90-22.ps.Z
       • ftp://ftp.cs.virginia.edu/pub/techreports/CS-90-22.txt.Z
    
    
  • NSF Workshop on Interfaces to Scientific Data Archives, Pasadena, California, March 25-27, 1998
    1. Roy Williams' Workshop abstract
    2. Full Workshop report
    
    
  • NSF Workshop on Workflow and Process Automation in Information Systems, Athens, Georgia, May 8-10, 1996
    1. Summary
    2. Proceedings
    3. Final report
    
    
• Metadata Efforts
  
  • Second IEEE Metadata Conference, Silver Spring, MD, September 16-17, 1997.
    1. C. Baru, R. Frost, R. Marciano, R. Moore, A. Rajasekar, and M. Wan, Metadata to Support Information-Based Computing Environments.
    2. K. Beard, T. Smith, and L. Hill, Meta Information Models for Georeferenced Digital Library Collections.
    3. L. Klein, S. J. S. Khalsa, J. Gales, D. Wynne, B. Fortner, and D. Ilg, NASA Earth Observing System Data and Information System Implementation of Extra- and Inter-File Metadata: Application to Data Services. (11 pages)
    
    
  • Amit Sheth and Wolfgang Klas, eds., Multimedia Data Management: Using Metadata to Integrate and Apply Digital Media (Morgan Kaufmann, 1998).

  • Standards
    1. Federal Geographic Data Committee's Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (CSDGM).
       • CSDGM Version 1, June 8, 1994 (79 pages)
         1. WordPerfect 6.1 (wpd)
         2. Portable Document File (pdf)
         3. Plain Text Version
       • CSDGM Version 2 (Draft), April 7, 1997 (80 pages)
         1. WordPerfect 6.1 (wpd)
         2. Portable Document File (pdf)
       
       
    2. The UK Arts and Humanities Data Service, Standards and Preservation Resource Lists
       1. Standards for the Interchange of Digital Information
       2. Digital Preservation
  
  
• STEP, Standard for Product Data Exchange (ISO 10303)
  

  • NIST STEP Page for ISO TC184/SC4 working documents

  • PDES, Inc., an international industry/government consortium accelerating the development and implementation of STEP (STandard for the Exchange of Product model data - ISO 10303

  • Peter Wilson's STEP page, including comments about the relationship between EXPRESS and the DICPM Workshop topics.

• Example Systems
  
  • Digital library projects
    1. The Alexandria Project: Towards a Distributed Digital Library with Comprehensive Services for Images and Spatially Referenced Information, University of California, Santa Barbara
    2. Digital Libraries Initiative, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    3. Digital Libraries Project, Stanford University
    4. Digital Library Project, University of Michigan
    5. An Electronic Environmental Library Project, University of California, Berkeley.
    6. EULER, European Libraries and Electronic Resources in Mathematical Sciences.
    7. Informedia Digital Video Library, Carnegie-Mellon University
    8. Second European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, September 21-23, 1998, Heraklion, Crete, Greece. ecdl@cc.uch.gr
    
    
  • Poseidon: A Coastal Zone Management System Via the WWW

  • THETIS: A Data Management and Data Visualization System for Supporting Coastal Zone Management for the Mediterranean Sea
    1. C. Houstis, C. Nikolaou, M. Marazakis, N. M. Patrikalakis, R. Pito, J. Sairamesh and A. Thomasic, Design of a Data Repositories Collection and Data Visualization System for Coastal Zone Management of the Mediterranean Sea, ECRIM Technical Report TR97-0200, June 1997. (18 pages)