TABLE 1.1 Examples of Different Types of S&T Database Activities Discussed in the January 1999 Workshop
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Organization (Sector)
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Information and Tools Provided
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Data Sources
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Geographic and Environmental
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U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) (Government)
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Geographic data: maps and map products
Data from other programs: biologic, geologic, hydrologic
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USGS, other federal agencies, state and local governments, not-for-profit researchers, partnerships with private-sector
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Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER)
Network Office (Not-for-Profit)
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Site description database, integrated climate database, remotely sensed ecological data
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Ecological researchers at distributed sites belonging to the LTER network
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GeoSystems Global Corp. (Commercial)
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Digital maps, MapQuest Web site, mapping services
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From the public domain: government-produced maps (federal, state, local), digital geographic data, remotely sensed imagery
Other sources: commercial and other countries' maps, digital data, remotely sensed imagery, other published sources
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Genomic
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National Center for Biotechnology Information (Government)
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GenBank: DNA and protein sequence data; Other genomic mapping databases; 3D protein structure database; bibliographic databases; software tools
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Direct contributions from scientists; access to other databases from government, not-for-profit, other country sources
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Center for Bioinformatics University of Pennsylvania (Not-for-Profit)
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Specialized biological databases; software tools for integration of distributed heterogeneous databases
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Proprietary and public-domain experimental data from academic researchers; manual processing and encoding of data from published literature; online molecular and cellular biology and genomic databases
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Molecular Applications Group (Commercial)
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Software for storing, mining, and visualizing genomic data; databases derived from public and private data and proprietary software
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>150 online database sites, public and proprietary
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