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| - !!! Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge (SEEK)is ... |
| + The Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge (SEEK) is a system designed to facilitate not only data acquisition and archiving, but integrating, transforming, analyzing, and synthesizing ecological and biodiversity data that was previously intractable. |
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| - a system of Information Technology tools designed to facilitate not only data acquisition and archiving, but integrating, transforming, analyzing and synthesizing ecology data that was previously intractable. |
| + The goals of SEEK are to build cyberinfrastructure which creates fundamental improvements in how researchers can: |
| + *gain global access to ecological data and information, |
| + *locate and utilize distributed computational services, and |
| + *exercise powerful new methods for capturing, reproducing, and analyzing data by extending ecological and biodiversity analysis and research capabilities. |
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| - The goals of SEEK are to make an ecological cyberinfrastructure which creates fundamental improvements in how researchers can: |
| - **gain global access to ecological data and information, |
| - **locate and utilize distributed computational services, and |
| - **exercise powerful new methods for capturing, reproducing, and analyzing data whereby extending ecological and biodiversity analysis and research capabilities. |
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| - **[EcoGrid|EcoGrid]-- a next generation internet architecture for data storage, sharing, access and analysis; |
| - **[Semantic Mediation System|Semantic Mediation] -- an advanced tool that can determine whether relevant data and analytical components may be automatically transformed for use with a selected workflow; and |
| - **[Analysis and Modeling System|Analysis and Modeling] -- a visual, automated environment where ecologists can design, modify and incorporate analyses to compose new workflows and models. |
| + *[EcoGrid|EcoGrid]-- a next generation internet architecture for data storage, sharing, access and analysis; |
| + *[Semantic Mediation System|Semantic Mediation] -- an advanced reasoning system that can determine whether relevant data and analytical components may be automatically transformed for use with a selected workflow; and |
| + *[Analysis and Modeling System|Analysis and Modeling] -- a visual, automated environment where ecologists can design, modify and incorporate analyses to compose new workflows and models. |
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| + *[SEEK overview slides from January 2005|http://cvs.ecoinformatics.org/cvs/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/seek/docs/presentations/seek-highlights-20050131.ppt?content-type=application/ms-powerpoint] |
