Data Service at the World Data Center for Geomagnetism, Kyoto

Toshihiko Iyemori, WDC for Geomagnetism, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Japan


Authors: Toshihiko Iyemori, Masahiko Takeda, MasahitToyohisa Kamei, Akinori Saito and Yoko Odagio Nose

The World Data Center system has been established at IGY (International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958) and huge amount of analogue and digital data have been collected at the WDC for Geomagnetism, Kyoto. We have started online data service in 1985 with a main frame computer through a domestic computer network for science, and then switched to Internet web service on a workstation in 1996. In the last few years, main efforts have been devoted to real-time data service and digitization of old analogue data records. In this paper, we briefly introduce our current status of data service and discuss the problems related to real-time data service and database construction of old analogue data.

Keywords : World Data Center, real-time data service, analogue data