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Presence, Personalization and Persistence: A New Model for Doing Science in a Collaborative Archive Environment
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| We propose to explore a fundamentally new way of working with data archives using techniques and technologies that have been
popularized in on-line virtual realities and massively parallel on-line games. Current NASA data archives use the same fundamental
approach. This can limit the role of the archive in supporting science and limit the science that users contemplate. Using the approach
we suggest below, archives can directly support collaborative research, provide summary views of the data holdings and bridge the gap
between archival access and data analysis. In this research project we shall investigate whether the promise of these approaches can be
realized by building a prototype environment that provides new capabilities within the data archive of NASA's High Energy
Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center. However what we learn should be widely applicable to NASA data centers in all science
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