Web-based Integration of Distributed Research Databases

基于网络的分布式研究数据库集成

• 批准号: 9808231
• 负责人: Cherri Pancake
• 金额: $ 87.23万
• 依托单位: Oregon State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-09-01 至 2002-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9808231&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Web; based; Integration; Distributed; Research

The eighteen databases of the Oregon Coalition for Interdisciplinary Databases (OCID) and the over 250 databases of the Long-term Ecological Research (LTER) at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest will serve as a testbed for a project to develop Web-based software that will make it possible to integrate distributed databases into a seamless virtual database. The proposed software framework will include Web-based tools for defining metadata to describe what aspects of each database are appropriate for cross-referencing against other databases, as well as software agents that mediate among independent repos-itories of data. The project will demonstrate how the software can be deployed to cross disciplinary agency and hardware/software boundaries to create a virtual database of bio-logical, geophysical, and climatic data. Such a resource will offer a much richer context for studying the biology and ecology of the northwestern region of the United States than has been available previously. As a model for interlinking other similar regional and national databases, it will be a valuable resource not only for research and natural resource management, but also for education. The project brings together a multidisciplinary team led by a computer scientist specializing in helping multidisciplinary groups adapt advanced computing technology to their specific needs and an ecologist-statistician-infor- mation manager from the LTER program. Each of the scientists who have agreed to coop-erate with the PIs has already built at least one research database of national significance. The close collaboration of computer scientists and biological scientists on this project will yield a practical, well-tested foundation that database owners throughout the country can exploit to link their own resources with colleagues at distant institutions or in other disci-plines. ***

俄勒冈跨学科数据库联盟（ocd）的18个数据库和H.J.安德鲁斯实验森林长期生态研究（LTER）的250多个数据库将作为一个开发基于网络的软件项目的测试平台，该软件将使分布式数据库集成到一个无缝的虚拟数据库中成为可能。拟议的软件框架将包括用于定义元数据的基于web的工具，以描述每个数据库的哪些方面适合与其他数据库交叉引用，以及在独立数据存储库之间进行调解的软件代理。该项目将演示如何将软件部署到跨学科机构和硬件/软件边界，以创建生物、地球物理和气候数据的虚拟数据库。这样的资源将为研究美国西北地区的生物学和生态学提供比以前更丰富的背景。作为连接其他类似区域和国家数据库的模式，它不仅是研究和自然资源管理的宝贵资源，而且也是教育的宝贵资源。该项目汇集了一个多学科团队，由一位专门帮助多学科团队适应其特定需求的计算机科学家和一位来自LTER项目的生态学家-统计学家-信息经理领导。每一位同意与PIs合作的科学家都已经建立了至少一个具有国家意义的研究数据库。计算机科学家和生物科学家在这个项目上的密切合作将产生一个实际的、经过良好测试的基础，全国各地的数据库所有者可以利用这个基础将他们自己的资源与遥远机构或其他学科的同事联系起来。* * *