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Digital Library Technology for Locating and Accessing Scientific Data

Robert E. McGrath·Joe Futrelle·Ray Plante·Damien Guillaume
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In this paper we describe our efforts to bring scientific data into the digital library. This has required extension of the standard WWW, and also the extension of metadata standards far beyond the Dublin Core. Our system demonstrates this technology for real scientific data from astronomy.

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Robert E. McGrath, Joe Futrelle, Ray Plante, Damien Guillaume. 1999-02-07. Digital Library Technology for Locating and Accessing Scientific Data. https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/9902012

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