Geological Society of America

T46 The Past, Present, and Future of the Digital Data Revolution and Its Effect on the Geosciences (Posters)

Sunday, 15 October 2023
8:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Hall B

NEOTOMA'S ADVENTURES IN CLOUDBANK: CLOUD TRANSITIONS TO SUPPORT DATA INFRASTRUCTURE

Paper number: T46-4
Program: Technical Sessions
Time: 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM

Authors

Simon Goring Presenting Author
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Socorro Dominguez Vidana
HT-Data, Vancouver, BC
Jessica Blois
University of California, Merced, Merced, CA
Stephen R. Crawford
The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
Jonathan K. Nelson
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
John Williams
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

Abstract

The increasing popularity, flexibility and utility of the commercial cloud has made the transition from campus-based infrastructure an attractive option for many research groups. This presentation details the set of tools that the Neotoma Paleoecology Database has used during its NSF CloudBank funded transition to the commercial cloud. Neotoma supports a database, several APIs, static websites and online manuals, as well as a number of periodic operations. Using Amazon's AWS services, Neotoma has been able to host the primary database, serve the APIs, a number of periodic services (DOI minting, data validation and database testing), and host static and dynamic webpages through the services.

This poster serves as a roadmap for other groups interested in migrating to the commercial cloud, and presents several of the challenges and potential long term advantages of making data resource services “cloud ready”.

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 55, No. 6

doi: 10.1130/abs/2023AM-393471

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