Automated Data Management for Warfighter Physiologic Status Monitoring
Abstract
The Warfighter Physiological Status Monitoring (WPSM) program produces millions of data points per field study. The effective utilization of this growing collection of very large time series data sets is crucial for achieving the scientific goals of the WPSM program. Currently available object-relational database systems do not deal well with either temporal or time series data, making the development of a suitable system costly, time consuming, and difficult. A highly automated data management solution is described here which allows investigators rapid and easy access to pertinent and interesting subsets of data. The approach uses object-oriented methods and the Extensible Markup Language (XML), a World Wide Web (WWW) standard for information exchange, to standardize field study data in an extensible way. Rather than using a full-scale object-relational database management system, an XML file archive was developed. A client-server based application was engineered to provide a generic interface to the WPSM XML data archive, and to provide a simple to use graphical user interface. The complete archive and system of software was used in four different applications and proved successful in its goal of automating the collection, archiving and access of data.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 2002
- Accession Number
- ADA398541
Entities
People
- Debra Meyers
- Gary P. Vaillette
- Mark J. Buller
- Rob M. Siegel
- William T. Matthew