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The Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC) is a multinational project launched in July 2009 involving 24 research teams from several countries of the European Union (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom), Russia, Serbia and Venezuela. It intends to upgrade and integrate at least 21 atomic and molecular databases in order to implement an interoperable cyber-infrastructure for efficient data exchange in several user communities. In the present report we review the main features of data-intensive science (e-science), and within the context of the VAMDC, we discuss relevant concepts such as virtual databases; the deployment of database-centric applications as cloud web services; the workflow and script web-service integrators; data curation models; the social network as the new end user; the XSAMS XML schema and the structure of the VAMDC node.
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Most of this paper was written at Woodcut, Richmond, UK, where the hospitality of Sasa Marinkov and Michael Jones was greatly appreciated. VAMDC is funded under the ‘Combination of Collaborative Projects and Coordination and Support Actions’ Funding Scheme of The Seventh Framework Program. Call topic: INFRA-2008-1.2.2 Scientific Data Infrastructure. Grant Agreement number: 239108. The Venezuelan node has been supported by Corporación Parque Tecnológico de Mérida, by EELA-2 (E-science grid facility for Europe and Latin America) and GISELA (Grid Initiatives for e-Science virtual communities in Europe and Latin America).
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Appendix A
XSAMS structure for the \({\rm 1s}\ ^{2}{\rm S}_{1/2}\) ground state of neutral hydrogen.
Appendix B
XSAMS structure for the transition \({\rm 2p}\ ^{2}{\rm P}^{o}_{1/2}\rightarrow {\rm 1s}\ ^{2}{\rm S}_{1/2}\) in hydrogen.
Appendix C
Python script for running the select3 Soaplab2 web service with a SUDS client. select3 is a tool associated with the VALDFootnote 28 atomic database [24].
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Mendoza, C., VAMDC Collaboration. (2013). Data-Intensive Profile for the VAMDC. In: Mohan, M. (eds) New Trends in Atomic and Molecular Physics. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, vol 76. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38167-6_18
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