Academic Degree

Published: 2019/6/14

Study of Scholarly Communication Infrastructure focused on Metadata in Upper Atmospheric Physics

Morio YAMAUCHI (Advanced Course of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, National College of Technology, Oita College, Japan)

Advanced Course, Granted
Supervisor: Yukinobu KOYAMA(National College of Technology, Oita College, Japan)

  In upper atmospheric research field, interdisciplinary studies by using various observational data are needed. Then the key for connecting various kinds of data is metadata. In Japan, Inter-university Upper atmosphere Global Observation NETwork(IUGONET) has released their metadata database to the public to promote interdisciplinary studies. Their metadata schema inherits the Space Physics Archive and Extract(SPASE) XML schema, and extended such as DOI, ORCID, and so forth.


  Initial SPASE XML schema was targeted for observation data, but the SPASE group released to the public the simulation extensions for describing empirical models and simulations. In our study, we investigated whether we can accept their extension without modification.

  To investigate the lack of elements, we described the metadata for International Geomagnetic Reference Field(IGRF) model, International Reference Ionosphere(IRI) model, NRLMSISE(Naval Research Laboratory Mass Spectrometer and Incoherent Scatter radar Extends) model, and Ionospheric Conductivity model by using them. As a result, we found that the element for distinguishing between empirical model and simulation, DOI for codes, license term for codes are insufficient.