Read ESA's article about participation in DILIGENT |
European Space Agency joins European effort to create Digital Libraries for science. "Spacecraft constantly scan the Earth, creating hundreds of gigabytes of new data products daily. Working with this ever-growing mass of information has made ESA's Earth Observation Directorate a pioneer user of powerful Grid computing. Now ESA is participating in an ambitious project that applies this same technique to information distribution and retrieval, with the aim of creating 'Digital Libraries' for global scientific collaboration...." Read the full article dated October 26 on the ESA website: http://www.esa.int/export/esaCP/SEMYJD0A90E_index_0.html. |