NSSDC's Java Inventory (JIN): Status Report

By Edwin Bell, Code 633

As was written in the December 2002 NSSDC Newsletter (ref. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nssdc_news/dec02/jin.html), NSSDC is in the process of updating its off-line inventory system. Since that time, the tape portion of the system has been redone, but delivery of the initial system has been delayed until the CD portion of the system can also be delivered.  Once this is completed (in late summer 2003), the existing off-line inventory system (IDA) will be retired and JIN will become operational.

Additional work which will follow this initial delivery of JIN is: (a) the addition of an inventory for NSSDC's extensive photographic holdings (going back to early Mercury flights and including the entire Apollo collection); (b) revisions to the NSSDC CD-ROM Catalog (to accommodate new features introduced in the inventory system); and, (c) steps towards integrating JIN with NSSDC's on-line inventory system, DIOnAS. These exciting changes on the horizon are anticipated to make it much easier for our customers to search, locate, and retrieve desired data from the NSSDC.