The AMIDER, Advanced Multidisciplinary Integrated-Database for Exploring new Research, is a newly developed research data catalog to demonstrate an advanced database application. AMIDER is characterized as a multidisciplinary database equipped with a user-friendly web application. Its catalog view displays diverse research data at once beyond any limitation of each individual discipline. Some useful functions, such as a selectable data download, data format conversion, and display of data visual information, are also implemented. Further advanced functions, such as visualization of dataset mutual relationship, are also implemented as a preliminary trial. These characteristics and functions are expected to enhance the accessibility to individual research data, even from non-expertized users, and be helpful for collaborations among diverse scientific fields beyond individual disciplines. Multidisciplinary data management is also one of AMIDER's uniqueness, where various metadata schemas can be mapped to a uniform metadata table, and standardized and self-describing data formats are adopted. AMIDER website (https://amider.rois.ac.jp/) had been launched in April 2024. As of July 2024, over 15,000 metadata in various research fields of polar science have been registered in the database, and approximately 500 visitors are viewing the website every day on average. Expansion of the database to further multidisciplinary scientific fields, not only polar science, is planned, and advanced attempts, such as applying Natural Language Processing (NLP) to metadata, have also been considered.
翻译:AMIDER(先进多学科集成探索研究数据库)是一个新开发的研究数据目录,旨在展示先进的数据库应用。AMIDER的特点在于它是一个配备用户友好型网络应用的多学科数据库。其目录视图能够一次性展示各学科领域内不受限制的多样化研究数据。同时实现了多项实用功能,包括可选数据下载、数据格式转换以及数据可视化信息展示。此外,作为初步尝试,还实现了数据集相互关系可视化等进阶功能。这些特性与功能有望提升非专业用户对个体研究数据的可访问性,并有助于促进跨学科领域的科研合作。多学科数据管理同样是AMIDER的独特优势,它能够将各类元数据模式映射到统一的元数据表中,并采用标准化、自描述的数据格式。AMIDER网站(https://amider.rois.ac.jp/)已于2024年4月上线。截至2024年7月,该数据库已收录极地科学各研究领域超15,000条元数据,日均访问量约500人次。计划将数据库扩展至极地科学以外的更多多学科科学领域,并已考虑将自然语言处理(NLP)技术应用于元数据管理等前沿尝试。