In the afternoon of the 24th of July 2003, a new version (v6.0) of the ISO Data Archive (IDA) software was installed.
The major improvement of this new version is :
Version 6 of the ISO Data Archive allows for continuous ingestion of new HPDP sets. An up-to-date list of HPDPs is created on-the-fly from the IDA using the dedicated link in the ISO Home Page, also upgraded with this release to evidence this new kind of archived products.
How to query HPDP and catalogues
Open the Highly Processed Data Products panel (located below the main search panel). Sets of HPDP can there be queried against author and title. Combined queries with any other panels are also possible.
A separate panel allows to query on any given catalogue. A description of each catalogue can be obtained by clicking on the title, coloured in blue. Having selected the catalogue to query, a dedicated query panel will be created on-the-fly. A descrition of each catalogue column can be obtained by clicking on the column name, coloured in blue.
As for any IDA query, the result will be a list of observations. Observations having HPDPs will have the "HPDP" button on the left highlighted.
How to access HPDP data and info
In the query results panel, as for any other product, the HDPD can be
retrieved directly on disk by pushing "Retrieve" and selecting "HPDP".
For more information and features, click on the highlighted HPDP button
at the left of any given observation. This will lead to a new panel. Abstracts
will be given of all HPDP sets containing the observation. Six buttons
on the left will lead to:
How to upload your HPDPIf you want to share the result of your ISO exploitation with the scientific community, please send an e-mail to helpdesk@iso.vilspa.esa.es with a short description of your data set. The ISO Data Centre will contact you shortly after and take care of the details of the ingestion. Clearly, we must to preserve some standards (e.g. in documentation, file formats) in order to facilitate the work of the ISO Data Archive user, but we will provide full support for this.
Other improvements are :
The ISO Data Archive can be accessed at http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/iso/access-the-archive .
Alberto Salama, ISO Data Centre, 24/07/2003