Conceptual model of the Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity
- Scattered among numerous storage sites (e.g., LTER sites, OBFS stations, other data archives)
- Stored in numerous formats Storage Resource Broker
- Software that resides at storage sites
- Allows and controls access to storage resources Metadata Catalog
- Describes the available data resources
- In standard (XML) format Desktop Client Software
- Contains tools for creating and editing metadata wAllows users to query all data in hypothesis format
- Identifies, retrieves, and integrates all relevant data