NET NEWS: Linking a Universe of Databases
Science · 1999
Imagine a search engine that can dig into a slew of scientific databases scattered across the Internet, then return the info as downloadable data. Such a tool is in the works, for instance, to troll the specimen collections of museums (Science, 7 May, p. 888). And Robert McGrath's group at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, is developing software that can do the same for astronomy databases.