Lessons Learned From 104 Years of Mobile Observatories

A second-generation automated archiving system has recently processed more than 1000 cruises at SIO, and a prototype established at WHOI for cruises and submergence operations. Scalability is achieved by sorting similar data from diverse sources into appropriate locations in a “Canonical Cruise Data Structure (CCDS).” Metadata are auto-generated by rules and vocabulary templates based on the CCDS. http://gdc.ucsd.edu:8080/digarch Data Diversity is a Challenge