The electronic sharing of general scientific data can be a complex but incredibly beneficial process. We identify elements that must exist in a system designed for such a purpose ...
Scientists are increasingly utilizing Grids to manage large data sets and execute scientific experiments on distributed resources. Scientific workflows are used as means for modeli...
A pattern is a model or a template used to summarize and describe the behavior (or the trend) of a data having generally some recurrent events. Patterns have received a considerab...
Annotation is the process of supplementing data with additional information that was not part of the actual observation, but reflects post-facto comments and associations made by a...
Data archivists expect information storage media to have a lifetime greater than ten years. Furthermore they desire the ability to predict when the media will fail in order to pla...