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Applications Of Object Database Technology In Thermodynamics And Materials Science, R Venkatesh, David Hansen, David Maier, James T. Stanley Ii

Faculty Publications - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Over the last few decades there has been a continual development of computer programs and databases directed at storage and manipulation of scientific data. The data these programs manipulate are typically kept in a proprietary format with little thought given to portability, upgrading or interfacing with other software. Hence, there is an inability to share data across programs of between data sources. We believe that many of the difficulties with sharing scientific data and building on previous computational efforts result from the incompatibility of programs and data in the scientific domain. We are involved in exploring an alternative data management …