The immense volume of data generated by the suite of instruments on SDO requires new tools for efficient identifying and accessing data that is most relevant to research investigations. We have developed the Heliophysics Events Knowledgebase (HEK) to fill this need. The HEK system combines automated data mining using feature-detection methods and high-performance visualization systems for data markup. In addition, web services and clients are provided for searching the resulting metadata, reviewing results, and efficiently accessing the data. We review these components and present examples of their use with SDO data.
@article{arxiv.1008.1291,
title = {Heliophysics Event Knowledgebase for the Solar Dynamics Observatory and Beyond},
author = {N. Hurlburt and M. Cheung and C. Schrijver and L. Chang and S. Freeland and S. Green and C. Heck and A. Jaffey and A. Kobashi and D. Schiff and J. Serafin and R. Seguin and G. Slater and A. Somani and R. Timmons},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.1291},
year = {2012}
}