Publications

NASA's Astronomical Data Center (ADC) has established a compilation
of "Data Mining Resources for Space Science" :

        http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/adc/adc_datamining.html

The list includes numerous items of general data mining interest.
It is not intended to be a comprehensive data mining resource, but
is primarily focussed on the new Virtual Observatory initiative for
astronomical data.  This Virtual Observatory will require significant
use of techniques from the data mining and knowledge discovery
communities.  Links to the Virtual Observatory are provided in the
above resource listing.  A short description is also available here :
http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/adc/adc_enews/jul00.enews.html#2

In addition to these efforts, the ADC is involved in research into the
application of eXtensible Markup Language (XML) for the repository of
published astronomical data.  Automated pipelines have been developed
for the flow of data from scientists and journal publication presses
into XML documents.  The goal of these pipelines is to greatly reduce
the human effort required to transform electronic human-readable tables
into machine-readable and database-ready documents.  An important
benefit is that the resulting XML documents can be searched and mined
via detailed or complex queries using the latest XML-based search tools.

ADC's XML web site : http://tarantella.gsfc.nasa.gov/xml

The ADC has also developed a new general data format designed to take
full advantage of the XML hierarchical structure.  The mathematical
core of the format is XDF, the eXtensible Data Format.

ADC's XDF web site : http://tarantella.gsfc.nasa.gov/xml/XDF_home.html

Kirk Borne
Raytheon Information Technology and Scientific Services
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Astrophysics Data Facility, Code 631
Greenbelt, MD  20771
ADC web page: http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/