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The Science as an open enterprise report highlights the need to grapple with the huge deluge of data created by modern technologies in order to preserve the principle of openness and to exploit data in ways that have the potential to create a second open science revolution.

Exploring massive amounts of data using modern digital technologies has enormous potential for science and its application in public policy and business. The report maps out the changes that are required by scientists, their institutions and those that fund and support science if this potential is to be realised.

Areas for action

Six key areas for action are highlighted in the report:

 

Scientists need to be more open among themselves and with the public and media

 

Greater recognition needs to be given to the value of data gathering, analysis and communication

 

Common standards for sharing information are required to make it widely usable

 

Publishing data in a reusable form to support findings must be mandatory

 

More experts in managing and supporting the use of digital data are required

 

New software tools need to be developed to analyse the growing amount of data being gathered

 

Fultext:

http://royalsociety.org/uploadedFiles/Royal_Society_Content/policy/projects/sape/2012-06-20-SAOE.pdf

Summary:

http://royalsociety.org/uploadedFiles/Royal_Society_Content/policy/projects/sape/2012-06-20-SAOE-Summary.pdf

 

Presentation:

http://openaccess.sdum.uminho.pt/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/1_GeoffreyBoulton_OpenAIREworkshopUMinho.pdf

 

 

 

Via Wilfred Mijnhardt, Ayla Stein, Intriguing Networks

"Scientific Data to complement and promote public data repositories

 

Scientific Data will be a forum for publications about datasets, but will not be a repository for primary datasets. Primary data associated with Data Descriptors will be stored in one or more external data repositories. Why this distinction?

 

 This strategy helps us draw some clear lines around the goals of Scientific Data. By ensuring that the primary datasets are stored in external systems, we make it crystal clear that our goal is to help authors publish content that promotes the scientific value and reusability of their datasets, not to control access to data. We feel that this is a progressive strategy that will help promote collaboration and data consolidation, rather than fragmentation"

from source: http://blogs.nature.com/

 

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Via ghbrett, michel verstrepen