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[Myexperiment-discuss] Re: Scientists sharing data: towards a database o
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Duncan Hull |
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[Myexperiment-discuss] Re: Scientists sharing data: towards a database of everything |
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Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:58:47 +0100 |
While we're waiting to get hold of that Scientist article, here's
another along similar lines recently published in BMC bioinformatics
(open access, no subscription required!)
Data publication: towards a database of everything
by: Vincent Smith
BMC Research Notes, Vol. 2, No. 1. (2009), 113.
The fabric of science is changing, driven by a revolution in digital
technologies that facilitate the acquisition and communication of
massive amounts of data. This is changing the nature of collaboration
and expanding opportunities to participate in science. If digital
technologies are the engine of this revolution, digital data are its
fuel. But for many scientific disciplines, this fuel is in short
supply. The publication of primary data is not a universal or
mandatory part of science, and despite policies and proclamations to
the contrary, calls to make data publicly available have largely gone
unheeded. In this short essay I consider why, and explore some of the
challenges that lie ahead, as we work toward a database of everything.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-2-113
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