Astroinformatics: Data-oriented astronomy research and education

Earth Science Informatics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 5-17

  Borne, Kirk D ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data integration; Data mining; Informatics; Knowledge discovery; Science education; Semantic metadata

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; ASTRONOMY; DATA MINING; DATA SET; DATABASE; EDUCATION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; INFORMATICS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; METHODOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; TWENTIETH CENTURY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 77953911770     PISSN: 18650473     EISSN: 18650481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12145-010-0055-2     Document Type: Article

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