A metadata-driven approach to loading and querying heterogeneous scientific data

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-8

  Leinfelder, Ben ^a   Tao, Jing ^a   Costa, Duane ^b   Jones, Matthew B ^a   Servilla, Mark ^b   O'Brien, Margaret ^c   Burt, Chad ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data integration; Data query; Heterogeneous data; Informatics; Metadata; Synthesis

Indexed keywords

DATA MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; INFORMATICS; META-ANALYSIS;

EID: 75949109127     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2009.08.006     Document Type: Article

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