Joe Hourcle is a Principal Software Engineer with Wyle Information

Systems, Inc., currently working at the Solar Data Analysis Center at

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center .

His current projects include archival support for the STEREO Science Center, data distribution for the

Solar Dynamics Observatory, and development and operations support for the Virtual Solar Observatory,

a federated search system for solar physics data.

He holds a Master’s degree in Information Manage-ment from the University of Maryland’s College of

Information Studies.

Joe will talk about his experience with the Virtual Solar Observatory's attempts to pro-vide federated search to solar physics data to the science community.

He will discuss issues in dealing with the needs of a diverse scientific community in accessing heterogeneous data that has been collected for different investigations, and the VSO's attempt to deal with these issues.

Joe will also discuss:

- Issues with how you think about your data - Political issues - Personality issues

Challenges in Developing Cross-Project

Data Systems

eScience Librarianship Guest Lecture Series

Room 120 Hinds HallMarch 28, 12:45-3:00

Joe Hourcle, Solar Data Analysis Center, NASA

For more information, please contact Joshua Kitlas at jkitlas@syr.edu

http://http://eslib.ischool.syr.edu/