The ISTEX (Excellence Initiative for Scientific and Technical Information) project is a vast program of acquisitions of scientific resources aimed at creating an internatioanl-standard digital library which can be accessed by all members of higher education and research institutions. The project was launched in November 2012 and received 60 million Euros of public funding. The platform for the data involved will be hosted at Inist-CNRS. The Ministry of Higher Education and Research iniated this innovative project which is led by CNRS, ABES, the Couperin Consortium and the University of Lorraine which represents the Conference of University Presidents. for further information: http://www.istex.fr/ /p>
Nowadays, in many scientific fields, the rapid evolution measurements by scientific appartus has led to significant amounts of data production. Modern scientific applications are then confronted with new problems that are primarily related to the storage and use of these data. In addition to the growing volume of data to handle, the heterogeneity of their formats makes its processing even more difficult. In this context, the PetaSky Project addresses challenges to manage scientific data in the field of cosmology. for further information: http://com.isima.fr/Petasky