News Archive

The IRIS DMC is soliciting feedback and suggestions for enhancements to our Earth Model Collaboration (EMC)

Starting November 20th the DMC will not be servicing requests by Swarm for time series data via web services.

The IRIS Data Management Center has been certified as a trusted repository by the ICSU World Data System.

The IRIS DMC will remove access to the QUACK Quality Assurance system on December 31, 2015

This issue showcases the new EMC 3D Visualizer, the migration of our relational database from Oracle to PostgreSQL, the new event aggregator web application, the Global Empirical Green’s Tensors product, and the community response to the M7.8 Nepal event.

Today Loren Shure published a blog post on MATLAB Central illustrating how easy it is to use the DMC’s very own irisFetch Matlab library for accessing and downloading seismic data.

The IRIS QUality Analysis Control Kit (QUACK) is being retired to make way for the quality assurance facilities of the MUSTANG system

IRIS Data Services will again be conducting a short course on Monday morning December 15, 2014 at the AGU. It will run from 8AM until noon and take place in the MOMA room of the Palomar Hotel, near the Moscone Center.

The QUACK quality assurance tool will be retired on January 16th, 2015. All users are encoraged to switch to the MUSTANG suite of quality assurance services.

The DMC has updated the IRIS-WS library to version 2.0.9 with several bugfixes, new functionality, and an important user level change.

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IRIS Data Services releases an interactive Data Product timeline

This issue provides details on the IDA DCC’s latest developments, the recent Data Services workshop in Bogotá, Colombia, an overview of the new MUSTANG quality assurance project, new Data Services products, and the arrival of very old Mt. St. Helens data

This issue provides details of the new DMC Auxiliary Data Center at LVOC, information about the upcoming Data Services workshop in Colombia, new DMS data products available, the inaugural DMC staff retreat, and a celebration of Rick Benson’s 20 years.

IRIS Data Services is organizing a workshop that will be held immediately following the LACSC Regional Assembly in Bogotá, Colombia.

The IRIS DMC is looking for two Java Web Service Engineers to join our team in Seattle.

This issue outlines the new Nigerian Network, Digital Object Identifiers for FDSN network operators, the new IRIS Earthquake Browser tool, the latest SAC release and several articles on new web-based tools.

IRIS Data Services will again be conducting a short course on Monday morning December 9, 2013 at the AGU. It will run from 8AM until noon and take place in the MOMA room of the Palomar Hotel, near the Moscone Center.

This issue outlines the USArray TA final datasets at the DMC, the REED project, a fun informative summary of USArray TA station siting, and the new Super GMVs data product

What the IRIS DMC will be taking down in the near future to make way for new and improved services that are now available

This issue outlines the OBSIP Cascadia Initiative, the FDSN web services available and the new services interface, DMC Special Event Webpages, and details on retiring software and new web updates.

With the release of WILBER 3 in April, we have been monitoring the functioning of this replacement to the venerable WILBER 2 system, which has served the IRIS community for a long time.

All of the DMC’s web services are now available at http://service.iris.edu with updated the online documentation. Web services currently available under www.iris.edu/ws/ will continue unmaintained until December 31st 2013

This version is not backwards compatible with the 1.x release, primarily due to schema changes. While similar in usage to the 1.x releases, it is expected that developers will need to change code when adopting this new release level.

The IRIS Data Management System (DMS) invites individuals at IRIS member institutions to submit Letters of Interest that outline new data product types and related development plans.

The Networked Data Centers (NetDC) request processing system has been in production for about 15 years and despite its long service to a federated cooperative of international data centers, this system has reached the end of its life.

The IRIS Web Services team are pleased to announce that the IRIS DMC has implemented the International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks versions of our core web services.

Special event page for the M5.1 North Korea nuclear explosion for collecting and distributing research content.

This issue outlines the DMC’s move to a virtual machine environment, the latest web services available, and details of the latest release of the DMC product browser, SPUD.

The 2013 IRIS Metadata Workshop and accompanying Advanced Studies Institute session on Joint Inversion of Receiver Functions and Surface Waves will be held in Kuwait in January 2013

The Products group are pleased to announce the release of multiple new data products available from the DMC.

This issue highlights the relevance of seismic fields for gravitational-wave detection, how to access DMC data directly from within MATLAB®, and the new Earth models data product.

During this short course, we will describe the web services available now at the IRIS DMC and how you can use them to access data and information.

The IRIS DMC is pleased to announce the release of SAC v101.5.

The IRIS Metadata Workshop will be held in Thailand and promises to bring lots of expertise and tools to the registered attendees.

This issue features the IRIS Knowledge Base – a central archive of information for seismologists.

The IRIS DMC is pleased to announce the release of SAC v101.4.

We are announcing an improvement in our customized request processing which will assist with occasional overlapping data issues.

Using JWEED a person can obtain event-oriented waveforms from any institution which implements Data Handling Interface (DHI) services.

Apply to participate in a workshop and pilot field experiment to assess and demonstrate the combined capabilities of NEES’s large-scale shakers, the diverse array of seismic recording systems available through IRIS, and USGS geophysical instrumentation.