Processing, management and distribution of scientific data:

• ingest : reading scientific format, extracting metadata, inserting into a database
• searching : SOAP front-ends to search the database (both client and server)
• browsing : web-based front ends to view browse products for the data
• federated searching : search aggregation to search multiple archives from a single interface, and query translation at each archive
• monitoring : making sure that the various processes (seem to be) running correctly
• ordering : user makes a request, we generate tarballs/zip files on the fly, or save to disk and notify them where it is
• reporting : generating metrics on usage (and some inputs need major cleaning first)