The International Directory Network And Connected Data Information Systems For Research In The Earth And Space Sciences

Summary: Federation of international Earth/space science directories into a virtual master data directory (IDN) enabling cross-disciplinary data discovery. Connected guides, catalogs, and inventories offer automatic data access, with browse, subsetting, and analysis capabilities now available and evolving. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2745
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1993
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 14,346 | 1.58%
DOI: 10.1145/170035.170146

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Authors

1. James R. Thieman (NASA; National Space Science Data Center)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{thieman_sigmod93,
        title = {{THE INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY NETWORK AND CONNECTED DATA INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR RESEARCH IN THE EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCES}},
        author = {Thieman, James R.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '93},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/170035.170146},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/170035.170146},
        year = {1993}
}

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