7 - Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
7 - Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
7 - Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
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As simulation was added to the traditional scientific & engineering cultures, collectionbased<br />
research will also play an important role in acquiring new concepts. The<br />
experimental results can be catalogued and made available to others on the Internet. The<br />
collection-based scientist will reduce, mine, and sift that data to make or break a<br />
hypothesis from the theorist. In this new paradigm, the raw or nearly-raw data is published<br />
in a way that would be impossible with only paper journals, not just tables and graphs, but<br />
rather ramified palaces of logic. These would be subsequently reduced and interpreted by<br />
other researchers. Thus the person who takes the data may be different from the person<br />
who reduces it to small, palatable representations that can be printed on paper.<br />
Scientific Data<br />
Data Mining /<br />
Visualization<br />
Tools<br />
Refined Data<br />
Raw Data<br />
Data<br />
Filtering<br />
& Refining<br />
Data<br />
Visualization<br />
using powerful<br />
query System.<br />
New Concepts,<br />
Predictions, Decision<br />
Support<br />
Engineering Data<br />
Local research Group<br />
Remote <strong>Research</strong> Group<br />
Fig. 3. Utilisation of refined data by Local / Remote <strong>Research</strong>ers to discover the<br />
hidden truth/ideas/concepts<br />
In this way the large Scientific & Technical repositories can have more access by more<br />
scientists and open more of the scientific process to examination by the scientific<br />
community. This concept is particularly important where the basic infrastructure and<br />
experimental facilities are not available.<br />
6. Database Interoperability<br />
There is an urgent need to advance Science & Technology not only by using, but also by<br />
fusing in<strong>for</strong>mation from multiple sources, from multiple digital archives. The greatest<br />
leverage will come if the integration is not only within the lines of established disciplines,<br />
but across these lines. Interoperability of scientific databases will drive global<br />
collaboration in the scientific and Technical worlds.<br />
Scientific & Technical Databases of various DAE Units can be fused to <strong>for</strong>m a single<br />
Virtual Database to aid collection based research across the units of DAE.<br />
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