HANUS1, FRANK JOSEPH*, KEN FERSCHWEILER2, AND SHERRY KAY PITTAM3. 1,3Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA 2Northwest Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering, 218 Alumni Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA. - Present your data on the Web.
Funding agencies are insisting that scientific research data be
published on the web. They are requiring that funded projects make
the data available on the web to the public and to other researchers.
Of course, issues of privacy, security and sensitivity must be
addressed. In making this data easily available on the Web we have
developed methods and software designed with the research scientist,
typically a person not trained in computer science, in mind. The
software is implemented to minimize the use of restrictive and arcane
database and programming languages utilized in conventional
Web-to-database sites. We will present a demonstration of the power
of this approach to web accessible database development. We will also
present several biological research projects and teaching tools
implemented using the methods and software designed by our research
team and often maintained by the scientists themselves. Each
project was publically funded, had data in a spreadsheet or PC/MAC
database and held information that was of interest to other
scientists. That data is now available on the Web from interfaces
that allows the user to query for results and should the database
owner decide, to download the data. This data is being used by school
students, teachers, other researchers, government agencies and the
general public.
Key words: database, internet, teaching tools, web, WWW