Integrating data discovery, analysis and visualization into polar cyberinfrastructure -- the PolarHub solution

[liwwchina]

This session will introduce the research progress of ASU researchers on a service-oriented Polar Cyberinfrastructure that integrates data search, intelligent online analysis and visualization to support polar sciences. The core component of this cyberinfrastructure portal is PolarHub, which has the ability to conduct large-scale web crawling to discover distributed geospatial data in the format of OGC web services. We are also working to integrate multi-dimensional visualization techniques to support more intuitive data presentation and analysis.

[chrismattmann]

@liwwchina this sounds awesome. The link to the work is here: http://polar.geodacenter.org/polarhub/

[chrismattmann]

can you please also star the repo for this @liwwchina ? Thanks!

[liwwchina]

stared. Thanks much Chris!

[chrismattmann]

@liwwchina I think it would be great to think specifically about how PolarHub could be augmented with a small, but accomplishable goal of infusing some of the technology from this hackathon, both on the backend and on the frontend. For example, if we could get a Tika parser that parses OGC web services, and then integrate that into the backend of PolarHub, we'd be good right? Looking at GDAL support, Tika right now (via TIKA-605) has support for parsing OGC web services. So a good goal of this session would be an early integration of PolarHub and Tika. What language is PolarHub written in? I'm cc'ing @lewismc and @tpalsulich and @aashish24 on this for their thoughts.

Another area that I think would be cool is to see if GISCube, and/or Tangelo would be good to integrate into the front end for PolarHub. CC'ing @MBoustani and @curtislisle for their thoughts.

[liwwchina]

@chrismattman Yes, I think this is a very good idea. Let me check out TIKA-605 for its OGC web service parser and think about how we can make seamless integration. Will keep you posted.

PolarHub is in Java. So I guess we will be good :-).

[chrismattmann]

awesome @liwwchina sounds gr8

[allenpope]

Just in case other polar people are confused - there is another PolarHub (http://thepolarhub.org/) - but that one is focused on polar & climate education & outreach.

As I think was alluded to before, perhaps this can be merged with another session for a particular outcome? I'm not familiar enough with the scope to know what the ideal goal would be, but maybe keep an ear out for good tasks, especially when introducing session at the beginning of the hackathon?

[aashish24]

It would be awesome to get some data into geojs: https://github.com/OpenGeoscience/geojs and vtk: vtk.org. Also, integration with GISCube will be very nice.

[liwwchina]

This ThePoLARHub is in fact very interesting and provides a lot of good resources to study Arctic science. I've shared this resource with my students. Thanks for sharing Allen. and Yes, our NSF/ASU PolarHub is more a polar data hub.

(ps: how may I @ someone in the message. I really want to @ Allen)

[chrismattmann]

Hey @liwwchina you do 'at sign'username

[allenpope]

Don't worry @liwwchina, I'm following the threads so I saw your comment!

[liwwchina]

Thanks @chrismattmann @allenpope

[liwwchina]

oh cool, it works!

[chrismattmann]

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[dmittman]

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[chrismattmann]

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[dmittman]

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[chrismattmann]

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[dmittman]

Yeah. Just discovered that. I retract my snark.

[chrismattmann]

Heh yep

[liwwchina]

http://polar.geodacenter.org/polarhub/#

[liwwchina]

portal cyberinfrastructure portal: http://polar.geodacenter.org/gci/#