The Flora of North America (FNA) is a large-scale collaboration involving over eight hundred scientists working together to create a 30-volume compendium of all naturally occurrin...
The information management requirements in systems based on Web Service Architecture principles include both the management of large amounts of relatively static services and assoc...
Cloud computing has emerged as a preferred platform for deploying scalable web-applications. With the growing scale of these applications and the data associated with them, scalab...
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Collaborative annotation tools are in widespread use. The metadata from these systems can be mined to induce semantic relationships among Web objects (sites, pages, tags, concepts...