Modern tools are needed to manage the complex nuclear properties data sets, to assist in the scanning of electronic journal articles, and to simplify the process of data evaluation. This project will develop tools that allow authors to prepare interactive tables, scientific equations editors, and reverence tools to produce highly-functional electronic articles. Methods will be defined that allow the evaluator to easily extract and process the complex data. Phase I will define a model for electronic nuclear data publication tools. Software will be developed to test the interactive tables, the equation editor, and other tools identified in the research. Nuclear data evaluation software will be designed to display and process nuclear structure data sets. Results of the studies will be refined using comments from members of the U.S. Nuclear Data Network.
Commercial Applications and Other Benefits as described by the awardee: The proposed technology has a direct impact on the U.S. and International nuclear data networks. There is a significant need for publication tools that take the electronic document beyond a simple hypertext model. The technologies proposed here can be used throughout science and beyond. This technology should assist in the collection and management of published nuclear data. The proposed software has direct applications to nuclear physics research.
