Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: The building of online atomic and molecular databases for astrophysics and for other research fields started with the beginning of the internet. These databases have encompassed different forms: databases of individual research groups exposing their own data, databases providing collected data from the refereed literature, databases providing evaluated compilations, databases providing repositories for individuals to deposit their data, and so on. They were, and are, the replacement for literature compilations with the goal of providing more complete and in particular easily accessible data services to the users communities. Such initiatives involve not only scientific work on the data, but also the characterization of data, which comes with the “standardization” of metadata and of the relations between metadata, as recently developed in different communities. This contribution aims at providing a representative overview of the atomic and molecular databases ecosystem, which is available to the astrophysical community and addresses different issues linked to the use and management of data and databases. The information provided in this paper is related to the keynote lecture “Atomic and Molecular Databases: Open Science for better science and a sustainable world” whose slides can be found at DOI : doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6979352 on the Zenodo repository connected to the “cb5-labastro” Zenodo Community ( https://zenodo.org/communities/cb5-labastro ).
Authors: M. L. Dubernet, G.B. Berriman, P. Barklem, K. Choi, A. Foster, I. Gordon, C. Hill, J. Kim, D.H. Kwon, H. Linnartz, Yu. Ralchenko, F. Salama, H. Shmagun, P. Schilke, D. Seo, J. Shim, S. Shin, M.-Y. Song, J. Tennyson, C. Vastel
Institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, Observatoire de Paris, Sorbonne Université, Laboratoire d’Etudes du Rayonnement et de la Matière en Astrophysique et Atmosphères, California Institute of Technology, NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, Uppsala University, Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information, Harvard University, Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, International Atomic Energy Agency, Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Leiden University, Leiden Observatory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Ames Research Center, NASA Astrobiology Institute, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, University of Cologne, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Institute of Fusion Energy, University College London, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, Université de Toulouse
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $2,627
OpenAlex ID: W4392970557