| THE ENTRY, DESCRIPTION AND EXTRACTION OF DATA BY ACCESSING THE ERA DATABASE FROM THE WORLD WIDE WEB (2009) | |||||||||||||||
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| Abstract: The Electronic Rothamsted Archive (ERA) is a well proven method of storing disparate sets of data relating to agricultural experiments. It has data browsing and extraction services and these have been o ered over the World Wide Web. This paper describes the incorporation of a data dictionary into ERA and an extension to the web services o ered by ERA to enable comprehensive browsing of the available data, including the precise data dictionary de nitions of the elds. The use of a standard data dictionary will facilitate the transfer of data between collaborating workers in di erent organisations. | |||||||||||||||
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