Abstract
Mercury is a federated metadata harvesting, search and retrieval tool based on both open source software and software developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It was originally developed for NASA, and the Mercury development consortium now includes funding from NASA, USGS, and DOE. A major new version of Mercury (version 3.0) was developed during 2007 and released in early 2008. This Mercury 3.0 version provides orders of magnitude improvements in search speed, support for additional metadata formats, integration with Google Maps for spatial queries, facetted type search, support for RSS delivery of search results, and ready customization to meet the needs of the multiple projects which use Mercury. For the end users, Mercury provides a single portal to very quickly search for data and information contained in disparate data management systems. It collects metadata and key data from contributing project servers distributed around the world and builds a centralized index. The Mercury search interfaces then allow the users to perform simple, fielded, spatial, and temporal searches across these metadata sources. This centralized repository of metadata with distributed data sources provides extremely fast search results to the user, while allowing data providers to advertise the availability of their data and maintain
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- Developers:
- Release Date:
- 2009-09-08
- Project Type:
- Open Source, No Publicly Available Repository
- Software Type:
- Scientific
- Sponsoring Org.:
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USDOE Office of Science (SC)Primary Award/Contract Number:AC05-00OR22725
- Code ID:
- 72918
- Site Accession Number:
- 4444
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Country of Origin:
- United States
Citation Formats
Palanisamy, Giri, Devarakonda, Ranjeet, Green, James, Rhyne, Tim, Lindsley, Chris, and Wilson, Bruce.
Mercury Metadata Toolset.
Computer Software.
USDOE Office of Science (SC).
08 Sep. 2009.
Web.
doi:10.11578/dc.20220414.25.
Palanisamy, Giri, Devarakonda, Ranjeet, Green, James, Rhyne, Tim, Lindsley, Chris, & Wilson, Bruce.
(2009, September 08).
Mercury Metadata Toolset.
[Computer software].
https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20220414.25.
Palanisamy, Giri, Devarakonda, Ranjeet, Green, James, Rhyne, Tim, Lindsley, Chris, and Wilson, Bruce.
"Mercury Metadata Toolset." Computer software.
September 08, 2009.
https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20220414.25.
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abstractNote = {Mercury is a federated metadata harvesting, search and retrieval tool based on both open source software and software developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It was originally developed for NASA, and the Mercury development consortium now includes funding from NASA, USGS, and DOE. A major new version of Mercury (version 3.0) was developed during 2007 and released in early 2008. This Mercury 3.0 version provides orders of magnitude improvements in search speed, support for additional metadata formats, integration with Google Maps for spatial queries, facetted type search, support for RSS delivery of search results, and ready customization to meet the needs of the multiple projects which use Mercury. For the end users, Mercury provides a single portal to very quickly search for data and information contained in disparate data management systems. It collects metadata and key data from contributing project servers distributed around the world and builds a centralized index. The Mercury search interfaces then allow the users to perform simple, fielded, spatial, and temporal searches across these metadata sources. This centralized repository of metadata with distributed data sources provides extremely fast search results to the user, while allowing data providers to advertise the availability of their data and maintain complete control and ownership of that data.},
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year = {2009},
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