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DATA EXCHANGE IN GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
by
Nazila Mokarram
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(CIVIL ENGINEERING)
December 2010
Copyright 2010 Nazila Mokarram
Object Description
| Title | Data exchange in geotechnical engineering |
| Author | Mokarram, Nazila |
| Author email | mokarram@usc.edu; nmokarram@yahoo.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Civil Engineering (Geotechnical Engineering) |
| School | Viterbi School of Engineering |
| Date submitted | 2010 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 22 Sep. 2012. |
| Date published | 2012-09-22 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Bardet, Jean-Pierre |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Wilson, John Wellford, L. Carter Martin, Geoffrey R. |
| Abstract | Although geotechnical information is obtained from rather costly drilling and laboratory operations, they are poorly documented and curated, due to lack of adoptable standards for data handling.; In this PhD dissertation proposal, first geotechnical community and data will be reviewed. Then, evolution of geotechnical data release within the community is studied. Based on the advantages and shortcomings of past efforts and the community specific needs, a requirement list for data exchange format is created. After detail analysis of AGS format for geotechnical data, an eXtensible Markup Language (XML)-based data organization is proposed. The eXtensible AGS (XAGS) data format is discussed in detail. XAGS is validated by examples of data generation and modification, data validation, data exchange, and archive and distribution via World Wide Web. To show the improvements of the new data exchange format over the previous formats, the proposed data format is evaluated by comparing its capabilities with the requirement list developed early in the study. At the end, a metadata model has been developed for documenting the data sets generated by experiment and simulation processes. The metadata model has an object-oriented structure developed using web ontology tools and expressible in XML schemas. The usefulness of the metadata model is demonstrated by generating automatic data reports and exchanging data sets with complete documentations. The metadata model for experimental research can be used as a guideline to develop metadata model for geotechnical information that are not well-documented. |
| Keyword | data exchange; XML; AGS; metadata model; geotechnical information |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3469 |
| Rights | Mokarram, Nazila |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Mokarram-4045 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume23/etd-Mokarram-4045.pdf |
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| Full text | DATA EXCHANGE IN GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING by Nazila Mokarram A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (CIVIL ENGINEERING) December 2010 Copyright 2010 Nazila Mokarram |
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