Accessing a multi-terabyte seismological archive using a metadataportal

摘要

Seismological data are voluminous. Typical researchers cannot benexpected to be able to search through the quantity of seismograms tonfind those that might contribute to their research topic. For thisnreason, metadata, stored in a relational database management system isnused to assist seismologists in determining which pieces of thenseismological archive may possess the information needed for theirnresearch topic