Speaker
Description
The Heliophysics Events Knowledgebase (HEK) provides a system for collecting and presenting
heliophysical data based on the International Virtual Observatory Alliance (VOEvent) format
and other standards. The HEK incorporates entries from distributed ground and space based
solar observatories and event descriptions generated by automated algorithms, detailed data
analysis and citizen scientists (while storing contact information and links to websites and
papers for attribution purposes). This makes it possible to carry out integrated studies that
span the full range of heliophysics and these resources are available to any interested researcher.
We present improvements to the HEK focused on community contributions to the collection of
metadata. New tools are enabling broader research community submissions of both events to the
Heliophysics Events Registry (HER) and metadata for data sets to the Heliophysics Coverage
Registry (HCR), highlighting the knowledgebase’s transition to an infrastructure model for
heliophysics research support beyond the missions (Hinode, SDO, IRIS) that drove its initial
development. We will discuss recent additions to our knowledgebase from a combination of the
HEK team ingesting event lists from other sources and external use of new Python-based tools
for contributing to the HEK. We will also present plans to add additional support for links,
references, and inferences both between HEK entries and from HEK entries to other event lists
and data repositories. This showcases the growth of the HEK beyond its historical focus on
missions associated with the Lockheed Martin Solar Astrophysics Laboratory to a more open
and FAIR platform supporting a broad range of heliophysics data resources.