Scientific Info Management.pdf

Chapter 7 of the thesis "Scientific Information Management in Collaborative Experimentation Environments" by Kaletas, E.C. concludes the research work by providing an overview of the proposed approach, summarizing the thesis achievements, evaluating and comparing the proposed approach, and discussing future work. The proposed approach involves a collaborative experimentation environment (CEE) that integrates various technologies to support scientific experiments and applications. The thesis identifies the requirements for information management in a CEE, categorizes them into user requirements and base ICT requirements, and proposes a framework for information management. The framework includes an experiment model that uniformly represents heterogeneous scientific experiments and a user environment that provides uniform and reusable interfaces to scientists. The thesis also evaluates and compares existing support environments for complex experimentations and their scientific information management approaches. Future work includes improvements to the presented work and advanced collaborative extensions.