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===== Transparent Middle Layer (TML) data management infrastructure ===== | ===== Transparent Middle Layer (TML) data management infrastructure ===== | ||
+ | The ICE-D project is an attempt to implement a so-called ' | ||
- | Describe TML infrastructure | + | A data layer: a single source of observational data that can be publicly viewed and evaluated, is up to date, is program- matically accessible to a wide variety of software using a standard application program interface (API), and is generally agreed upon to be a fairly complete and accurate record of past studies and publications, |
- | ==== [[Data_Layer|Data Layer]] ==== | + | A transparent middle layer that calculates geologically useful results, in this case exposure ages, from observational data using an up-to-date calculation method or methods, and serves these results via a simple API to: |
+ | An analysis layer, which could be any Earth science application that needs the complete data set of exposure ages for analysis, visualization, | ||
- | ==== [[Middle_Layer|Middle Layer]] ==== | + | The middle layer is " |
+ | The reason the writing style just changed abruptly there is that much of the above paragraph is copied from [[https:// | ||
- | ==== [[Analysis_Layer|Analysis | + | For the special case of cosmogenic-nuclide geochemistry, |
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+ | And what that actually translates to in terms of computational infrastructure is explained in this other figure: | ||
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+ | If that figure didn't make total sense immediately, | ||
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+ | === Data Layer === | ||
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+ | The [[data_layer|Data Layer]] | ||
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+ | === Middle Layer === | ||
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+ | The [[middle_layer|Middle Layer]] is a set of calculation services that act on raw data pulled from the database (or from anywhere else) and generate derived quantities such as exposure ages. The so-called [[http:// | ||
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+ | === Analysis Layer == | ||
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+ | An [[analysis_layer|Analysis Layer]] application is anything that takes a set of raw cosmogenic-nuclide data, exposure ages derived from that data, or both, and displays or uses it in some way. The [[http:// | ||
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