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Ranked Similarity Search Of Scientific Datasets: An Information Retrieval Approach, Veronika Margaret Megler
Ranked Similarity Search Of Scientific Datasets: An Information Retrieval Approach, Veronika Margaret Megler
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In the past decade, the amount of scientific data collected and generated by scientists has grown dramatically. This growth has intensified an existing problem: in large archives consisting of datasets stored in many files, formats and locations, how can scientists find data relevant to their research interests? We approach this problem in a new way: by adapting Information Retrieval techniques, developed for searching text documents, into the world of (primarily numeric) scientific data. We propose an approach that uses a blend of automated and curated methods to extract metadata from large repositories of scientific data. We then perform searches over …