With the support and participation of the China Ministry of Science and Technology and experts, an e-platform project, launched on January 1, 2004, has completed its overall planning with technical implementation solutions ready for distributive data storage and centralized publicizing. The project also defined the content for natural S&T resources catalog, major functionalities, contents for virtual museum and associated display modality design. As of the end of 2004, the project has completed the phase-I development, including a natural S&T resources portal system, integrated database, background management system, and virtual museum. It also realized the interconnection with the national S&T infrastructure portal. The entire system has been running smoothly since its trial operation in January 2005.
In the course of construction, the project solicited comments and suggestions from government agencies and experts in the field, through several rounds of large workshops and trial operation. Thanks to the full support of leaders and experts, the project completed the construction of the natural S&T resources sharing platform from scratch, offering efficient, prompt and accurate search for physical resources, and multiple-angle and element based displays. The platform can answer the questions for identifying, locating and obtaining a desire resource. Along with improvement and added resources data, the platform will become a play in sharing natural S&T resources. |
