WFCatalog: A catalogue for seismological waveform data

Abstract

This paper reports advances in seismic waveform description and discovery leading to a new seismological service and presents the key steps in its design, implementation and adoption. This service, named WFCatalog, which stands for waveform catalogue, accommodates features of seismological waveform data. Therefore, it meets the need for seismologists to be able to select waveform data based on seismic waveform features as well as sensor geolocations and temporal specifications. We describe the collaborative design methods and the technical solution showing the central role of seismic feature catalogues in framing the technical and operational delivery of the new service. Also, we provide an overview of the complex environment wherein this endeavour is scoped and the related challenges discussed. As multidisciplinary , multi-organisational and global collaboration is necessary to address today's challenges, canonical representations can provide a focus for collaboration and conceptual tools for agreeing directions. Such collaborations can be fostered and formalised by rallying intellectual effort into the design of novel scientific catalogues and the services that support them. This work offers an example of the benefits generated by involving cross-disciplinary skills (e.g. data and domain expertise) from the early stages of design, and by sustaining the engagement with the target community throughout the delivery and deployment process.

Automated Quality Assessment of Interferometric Ring Laser Data

“…The presented scheme will help to provide quality measures for ring laser data of ROMY and possible other instruments, when the database becomes publicly available. It is planned to run a service similar to the FDSN webservice “waveform catalogue” [ 20 ], which consists of a database with corresponding quality measures entries. The remote user will then be able to select only those data which meet predefined quality criteria.…”

Establishing Core Concepts for Information-Powered Collaborations

“…These should then be repeated periodically to detect trends. Our framework builds on similar approaches that exploit catalogues and agreed canonical forms in the seismological domain [67]. That experience provided us with useful evidence of benefits and adoption although it has been applied in a more tractable context.…”

RÉSIF-SI: A Distributed Information System for French Seismological Data

“…5) that communicate with each other via an Advanced Message Queuing Protocol system (ISO/IEC 19464, 2014). Four databases are populated at this stage: (1) inventories of networks, stations, channels, and responses; (2) waveform inventories (PostgreSQL databases, PostgreSQL Global Development Group, 1996); (3) metrics and data quality information (MongoDB -EIDA WFCatalog database, MongoDB, Inc., 2009;Trani et al, 2017); (4) elements for monitoring the integration operations (PostgreSQL). Consistency of information within and between databases (1), (2), and (3) is guaranteed by construction.…”