| Abstract: | Research projects in earthquake engineering yield a very large amount of complex data from experiments and computer simulations.
Understanding and exchanging these complicated and voluminous data sets prompted the development of metadata models that document
the processes of data generation, and facilitate the collaboration and exchange of information between researchers. The present
metadata model was designed to document and exchange a large number of large data files in earthquake engineering, but is
applicable to other fields of engineering and science. The model was conceived based on a series of former data models, which
were unduly complicated and limited to few types of experiments. Simpler than its predecessors, the present metadata model
applies to all kinds of earthquake engineering experiments. It was developed in the object-oriented framework using Protégé.
Its applications are illustrated with examples from centrifuge experiments. |
