A Decade with VAMDC: Results and Ambitions

D Albert; B K Antony; Y A Ba; P  Bollard; T J Millar

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A Decade with VAMDC: Results and Ambitions

D Albert, B K Antony, Y A Ba, P Bollard, T J Millar

School of Mathematics and Physics

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This paper presents an overview of the current status of the VAMDC e-infrastructure including the current status of the VAMDC connected (or to be connected) databases, updates on the latest technological development within the infrastructure and a presentation of some application tools that make use of the VAMDC e-infrastructure. We analyse the past 10 years of VAMDC development and operation, and assess its impact both on the field of atomic and molecular (A&M) physics itself and on heterogeneous data management in international cooperation. The highly sophisticated VAMDC infrastructure and the related databases developed over this long term make it a perfect resource of sustainable data for future applications in many fields of research. However, we also discuss the current limitations that prevent VAMDC from becoming the main publishing platform and the main source of A&M data for user communities, and present possible solutions under investigation by the consortium. Several user applications examples are presented, illustrating 12 the benefits of VAMDC in current research applications, which often need the A&M data from more than one database. Finally, we present our vision for the future of VAMDC.

Original language	English
Article number	76
Number of pages	45
Journal	Atoms
Volume	8
Issue number	4
Early online date	21 Oct 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/atoms8040076
Publication status	Early online date - 21 Oct 2020

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