Center for Embedded Network Sensing

At CENS, various efforts aimed at the preservation and dissemination of scientific material have emerged over time, resulting in data being collected in three main repository systems: 1), CENSDC, a database service that provides access to CENS deployments in a centralized web location, 2) Sensorbase.org, a data warehouse for raw sensor data and 3) CDL eScholarship Repository, a digital library service for articles, technical reports and similar scholarly material. We anticipate forthcoming data repositories to include, among others, a directory of CENS people and a sensor software library. Despite the heterogeneity of this content, we believe that these information resources are all building blocks of the same scholarly production chain. With this concept in mind, we are designing a framework that allows the creation, discovery, ingest and publication of aggregated information resources via simple web services.