Obtainable knowledge for materials from data-free-way; Method for description of knowledge obtained from fact database

Kaji, Yoshiyuki  ; Yoshida, Kenji*; Mashiko, Shinichi*; Fujita, Mitsutane*; Shimura, Kazuki*; Kinugawa, Junichi*; Tsuji, Hirokazu; Miyakawa, Shunichi*; Iwata, Shuichi*

A distributed database system named Data-Free-Way for advanced nuclear materials has been developed by the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI), the Japan Nuclear Cycle Development Institute (JNC), and the Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST) under a cooperative agreement. In this system, end-users are able to obtain necessary data such as tables or graphs, even if they do not know the sites in which the data are stored. A distributed knowledge database in which each organization makes the knowledge based on the retrieval results from fact database and end-users can get the knowledge, has been developed to make more useful utilization of this system. Though the retrieval results from the fact database were shown in the tables or graphs, the new system constitutes the information notes described the retrieval ones for the knowledge by XML. This paper describes the present status of the Data-Free-Way and the description method of XML for the retrieval results.