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eScience - Silicon Valley
Overview
Each of the sciences has a wealth of data and all the data is potentially comparable to the vast assets on the Internet. Yet, most scientists have very poor tools to capture, organize, analyze, visualize and understand the data they and their colleagues have collected and cross-index it with the literature and archives. We are researching ways that information technology can help solve these problems by organizing data in new ways, by automating many of the tasks, and by building tools that streamline scientific workflows. We typically partner with a group of domain scientists and work closely with them to build a prototype system that demonstrates a substantial advance in their productivity. To give specific examples, we worked with the USGS to build the TerraServer that unified a large body of USGS image data as an online database and has provided a platform for many subsequent science and service projects. A close collaboration with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and others has made many astronomy catalogs available online, provided services to analyze the data, and has federated many of these catalogs. We have ongoing collaborations in the areas of Geography, Astronomy, Hydrology, and Oceanography – and we are in consulting relationships with groups in many other disciplines. The group also has an interest in managing health records. Individuals and families accumulate a wide variety of health-related records, as do their physicians. This creates the situation the National Library of Medicine calls the “Document Game” (http://endingthedocumentgame.gov/) when some family member needs unusual treatment involving many specialists or services. We are trying to facilitate personal electronic-health-records that are comprehensive and that interoperate with the health delivery systems. Contributors
Tom Barclay, Gordon Bell, Jim Gray, Catharine VanIngen Selected Publications
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