Skip to main content
Open
Main navigation
Home
Projects
Themes
African American History
American Experience
Art & Design
Civil War Era
Freedmen's Bureau
Mysteries of the Universe
Women's History
Museums and Archives
Archives of American Art
Freedmen's Bureau
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Search
About
Tips
Blog
Smithsonian Digital Volunteers: Transcription Center
Sign up
Log in
Transcribe page 5 of 22
This transcription is completed and pending approval.
Switch to vertical layout
Switch to horizontal layout
Go to previous page
Return to project home
Go to next page
Page #
Go
Download PDF for NASM-NASM.2014.0025-bx033-fd008_005 (project ID 25265)
Post NASM-NASM.2014.0025-bx033-fd008_005 (project ID 25265) to Facebook
Tweet NASM-NASM.2014.0025-bx033-fd008_005 (project ID 25265)
Instructions
Transcription
TRIP TRIP v3.1 Text/Object Database Management System Selected, Up & Running at CalSpace Earthrise/KidSat Program Continued which controls the electronic still camera. Once the commands are executed (the designated area photographed), the digital images are downloaded to the notebook, transmitted to the MCC, and then sent to the KidSat Data Archive Center at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, CA. The students at the Student Mission Operations Centers can then access the images and accompanying data at the KidSat Data Archive Center via Internet using WWW. Every mission generates a few thousand images, each about 18Mbyte in size, and to date the Shuttle flights have accumulated over two hundred and twenty thousand digitized images. With so many images to handle, and each with its corresponding data such as image captions, camera commands, cloud cover, geographic features, etc., there needed to be a way to store and easily retrieve each image. TRIP is optimized for handling different types and large amounts of data, with virtually no limit on amount of data per field or record, number of fields or records per database, number of databases per system, or size of any database. According to Fred Peters of NASA, assigned to CalSpace, "TRIP acts like an access librarian - it is a good product for us, allowing us to quickly and easily manipulate these images." TRIP's set-up (simple CD ROM installation) was right out of the box, including a WWW gateway program, connecting TRIP and the KidSat web server, using a CGI (Common Gateway Interface) to allow the web server to communicate with other programs. All data in the TRIP database is stored in native form and references the images stored on a super computer. The gateway program performs structured and free text searches that dynamically generate HTML (hyper text mark-up language) code through TRIP's report generator. A team of UCSD students, led by Computer Engineering student Jesse Keller and coordinated by Physics student Adam Burgasser and Cognitive Science student Sarah Wustner, have incorporated the TRIP software into the KidSat project with an output format specialized to the Earthrise database. Searches are performed using form-based methodology, feature icons, or geographic locations selected from a map which are translated and submitted to the TRIP database via the TRIP WWW interface. The user interface works with both NetScape and Mosaic using all standard WWW protocols. CalSpace's selection of TRIP underscores the broadening popularity that this new American company, TRIP Systems International, is enjoying. As evidenced at CalSpace, TRIP's leading edge Text/Object Database technology is now available for demanding applications requiring the ability to store and retrieve information in a variety of forms and formats, including text, structured data, full documents, graphics, photos, video, audio - in fact, any type or combination of multimedia. For more information, contact: TRIP Systems International 487 Federal Road Brookfield, CT 06804 phone (203) 740-7200; fax (203) 740-2344
Notes on Transcribing this page (optional)
This section can be used to communicate any questions or concerns to Smithsonian staff, as well as other volunteers, about this transcription. Do not use to transcribe extraneous notes made by collector or other institutions.
Math question
1 + 11 =
Solve this simple math problem and enter the result. E.g. for 1+3, enter 4.
Inactivity Warning
We will release your lock in
5:00
.
Click here if you are still working on this page.