A computational- And storage-cloud for integration of biodiversity collections

Proceedings - IEEE 9th International Conference on e-Science, e-Science 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 78-87

  Matsunaga, Andréa ^a   Thompson, Alex ^a   Figueiredo, Renato J ^a   Germain Aubrey, Charlotte C ^b   Collins, Matthew ^a   Beaman, Reed S ^b   MacFadden, Bruce J ^b   Riccardi, Greg ^c   Soltis, Pamela S ^b   Page, Lawrence M ^b   Fortes, José A B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Appliances; Biocollections infrastructure; Biodiversity; Cloud computing; Data access; Data store; Digitization

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTRIC APPLIANCES; INTEGRATION; MIDDLEWARE;

BIOCOLLECTIONS INFRASTRUCTURE; CLOUD COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS; CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES; CYBER INFRASTRUCTURES; DATA ACCESS; DATA STORE; OPEN SOURCE CLOUD MIDDLEWARES; THIRD PARTY SERVICES;

BIODIVERSITY;

EID: 84892691605     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/eScience.2013.48     Document Type: Conference Paper

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