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The World Organization of Volcano Observatories (WOVO)
Database of Worldwide Volcanic Unrest (WOVOdat)
From:
Florian Schwandner <fschwand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Progress update:
WOVOdat's technical advisory group announces that the current database
schema (WOVOdat 1.0) has just been published and is now freely available
for viewing and download as an USGS Open-File Report:
Venezky, Dina Y., and Newhall, Christopher G., 2007:
"WOVOdat design document; the schema, table descriptions, and create
table statements for
the database of worldwide volcanic unrest (WOVOdat Version 1.0)".
U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1117, 177 p.
[ http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2007/1117 ].
About WOVOdat:
The World Organization of Volcano Observatories (WOVO, a commission of
IAVCEI) operates one of its core project goals, called the Database of
Worldwide Volcanic Unrest (WOVOdat). Initiated by past WOVO chairman
Christopher Newhall, WOVOdat intends to become an Internet-based
volcanic "epidemiological" and monitoring tool that will define not only
how data are used and exchanged between observatories, government
agencies, and researchers in the future, it will also likely have an
impact on the efficiency in which volcanic eruptions are forecast. By
mandate from its member observatories, WOVOdat partners with
institutions like the Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism
Program, UNAVCO, and IRIS. Planning and technical design workshops were
held in 2000, 2002 and 2007, and implementation of the database schema
and data is currently under way in the framework of a pilot study.
See http://www.wovo.org for more information
Please contact WOVO co-chairman Warner Marzocchi
(http://www.bo.ingv.it/~warner/ at INGV Bologna, Italy), or technical
advisory group spokesperson Florian Schwandner (Colorado State
University, USA) for inquiries on WOVOdat.
Submitted on behalf of the technical advisory group in WOVOdat,
Florian Schwandner <fschwand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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