A User Interface for Semantically Oriented Data Mining of Astronomy Repositories
This tool addresses the problem of complex data access for astronomers, but it is incremental as it applies existing semantic query methods to a specific domain.
The authors developed a user-friendly interface for data mining astronomy repositories, enabling powerful semantic queries without requiring users to handle query formulation details, and demonstrated its functionality with actual astronomy data.
We present a user-friendly, but powerful interface for the data mining of scientific repositories. We present the tool in use with actual astronomy data and show how it may be used to achieve many different types of powerful semantic queries. The tool itself hides the gory details of query formulation, and data retrieval from the user, and allows the user to create workflows which may be used to transform the data into a convenient form.