Scientific exchange

Semantic Units for Scientific Data Exchange

All practical scientific research and development relies inherently on a well-understood framework of quantities and units. While at first sight it appears that potential issues should by now be well understood, closer investigation reveals that there are still many potential pitfalls. There are a number of well-publicised case studies where lack of attention to units by both humans and machine...

How To Advance Open International Scientific Exchange

Computational biology is an international collaboration. Open scholarly exchange nurtures the development of our field. And scientists are not the only beneficiaries; international cooperation is a crucial part of any country’s diplomatic relations. Our community, by actively engaging governments, needs to promote scientific exchange. In response to reports of visa difficulties, the Internation...

Open, Self Organising Repository for Scientific Information Exchange

In the paper-based world, CAAD-associations, such as SIGRADI, and scientific publishers aim at getting the right people together and for making sure their work gets distributed to their peers. Electronic networks, such as the Internet, are providing scientists with the means to pursue those activities on their own. In this paper we present the goals of an EU project called SciX (Scientific info...

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Scientific data exchange: a schema for HDF5-based storage of raw and analyzed data.

Data Exchange is a simple data model designed to interface, or `exchange', data among different instruments, and to enable sharing of data analysis tools. Data Exchange focuses on technique rather than instrument descriptions, and on provenance tracking of analysis steps and results. In this paper the successful application of the Data Exchange model to a variety of X-ray techniques, including ...