Digital Library Technology for Locating and Accessing Scientific Data

TL;DR

This paper discusses integrating scientific data into digital libraries by extending web and metadata standards, demonstrated with astronomy data.

Contribution

It introduces new extensions to web and metadata standards for scientific data integration into digital libraries.

Findings

Extended metadata standards beyond Dublin Core

Demonstrated system with astronomy data

Enhanced access to scientific data in digital libraries

Abstract

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.