Abstract:
The OneMercury search tool allows users to search environmental science and Earth observational data sets through a distributed framework. The search tool is based on Mercury, a Web-based system to search for metadata and retrieve associated data.
Features:
- Invokes a new paradigm for managing dynamic distributed scientific data and metadata
- Provide a single portal to information contained in
... disparate data management systems
- Provide free text, fielded, spatial, and temporal search capabilities
- Puts control in the hands of investigators or other data providers
- Has a very light touch (i.e., is inexpensive to implement)
- Is implemented using Internet standards, including XML
- Supports international metadata standards, including FGDC, Dublin-Core, EML, ISO-19115
- Is compatible with Internet search engines
- Is based on a combination of open source tools and ORNL-developed software 
