View designer: Building extensible and customizable presentation for various scientific data

Abstract

Recent increasing demand for Open Science leads pervasive scientific data to a public domain to improve the efficiency of research and education by sharing data with communities. There have been many data repository/platform proposed to store various and complicated data, however, the data visualization method has not been deeply researched yet. Since the most of their view pages are tightly-coupled with the corresponding dataset, the more views should be made as the diversity of datasets increases. It might be redundant as well as difficult to respond to various types of data. Hence, we propose a view designer, based on a simple drag-n-drop method to be developed by domain scientists easily and quickly. Such environment can provide flexible representation methods that fit requirements from the communities. In addition, our solution uses HTML without any program codes for executing of a server such as JSP, so data security could be maintained.