Workshop on Interfaces to Scientific Archives

本研讨会讨论如何创建一个协作式数字图书馆，将科学数据传播给比数据创建者更广泛的受众：通过地方、国家或全球合作或整个互联网。我们将案例研究(来自物理学、天文学和生物学)与那些提供使能技术的案例研究和其他信息科学家结合在一起。研讨会的主题包括元数据格式、数据库、图形用户界面(GUI)软件和数据探索软件；新用户如何快速轻松地学习使用库；新用户如何重复使用在其他地方学到的交互范例；如何为用户提供一种机制来注释库和创建新的元数据。讲习班的另一个主要内容是提供高性能计算，该计算以高带宽连接到数据档案，以提供过滤和数据挖掘服务。讲习班的成果是一份广为传播的结论报告，可通过互联网查阅，并以摘要形式在同行评议的期刊上发表。该讲习班将提供各种方法，使各种各样的用户--从科学家、企业和政策决策者、普通公众到学童--能够获得或改进获取科学数据的机会。

This workshop addresses the question of how to create a collaborative digital library, to disseminate scientific data to a wider audience than those who created the data: from local, national, or global collaboration or the entire Internet. We bring together case studies (from physics, astronomy and biology), with those offering enabling technology, and other information scientists. Topics of the workshop include metadata formats, databases, graphical user interface (GUI) software, and data exploration software; how a new user can quickly and easily learn to use the library; how the new user can reuse interaction paradigms learned elsewhere; how to provide a mechanism for users to annotate the library and create new metadata. Another main thrust of the workshop is the provision of high-performance computing that is connected at high bandwidth to the data archive, to provide filtering and data mining services. The output from the workshop is a well-disseminated report of its conclusions, accessible via Internet, and published in digest form in a peer-reviewed journal. This workshop will offer approaches that can provide or improve access to scientific data to a wide variety or users, ranging from scientists, business and policy decision makers, general public to schoolchildren.