Title :
Managing soil science experiments using Zoo (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ZOO)
Author :
Ioannidis, Yannis ; Livny, Miron ; Ailamaki, Anastassia ; Ranganathan, Arvind ; Therber, Andrew ; Yuin, Maria ; Anderson, Martha ; Norman, John
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Wisconsin Univ., Madison, WI, USA
Abstract :
We have studied the needs of a wide range of experimental disciplines, developed solutions to some of the basic problems in experiment management and made significant progress towards implementing a simple desktop experiment management environment (DEME) called Zoo. Our work has proceeded in a tight loop between developing generic experiment management technology that is implemented in a generic tool, installing customized enhancements of the tool that constitute full systems [complete customized desktop experiment management systems (CDEMSs)] in laboratories of interest, and using the provided feedback to guide our research directions. In this paper, we first outline the overall architecture of Zoo and then discuss a particular experiment
Keywords :
Internet; environmental science computing; geophysics computing; laboratory techniques; soil; Zoo; complete customized desktop experiment management systems; customized enhancements; desktop experiment management environment; feedback; generic experiment management technology; generic tool; laboratories; research directions; soil science experiments; system architecture; Collaborative work; Data models; Database languages; Environmental management; Feedback loop; Horses; Laboratories; Object oriented databases; Object oriented modeling; Soil;
Conference_Titel :
Scientific and Statistical Database Management, 1997. Proceedings., Ninth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Olympia, WA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7952-2
DOI :
10.1109/SSDM.1997.621171
