Summary

In 2008, the new UCERF model had just been released, and UseIT was challenged to “communicate the value and the content of the Uniform Earthquake Rupture Forecast to end-users and the public at large.” This led to the production of a number of informative video animations that used expanded capabilities of SCEC-VDO, which was upgraded to process and render UCERF results on-the-fly. It also led to an effort to register a wide range of digital objects that formed the basis for UCERF into the USC Digital Library System. The students encountered, and partially solved, a major problem that SCEC has had in registering digital objects into digital libraries: “the metadata bottleneck.”

Challenge Statement