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7 What Constitutes a Publication in the Digital Environment?
7 What Constitutes a Publication in the Digital Environment?
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WHAT CONSTITUTES A PUBLICATION IN THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT? INTRODUCTORY REMARKS Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information In this session, we start taking a look at the issue of what constitutes a publication in the evolving digital world, with specific attention to the frameworks of science and journals.
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One thing the STKE partners were somewhat surprised to find out was that not only did they have to answer the question why signal transduction is important, but for business reasons they had to answer what signal transduction is. Although it was very clear to researchers what it meant, in the business world, they had to explain why a library should care about a knowledge environment around this topic— that a lot of their different researchers, schools, and departments would be interested in this.
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The scientific community will see more of this in the future, as publishers move away from just putting the content of print journals online and try to pull diverse sources together. The STKE virtual journal has full-text access to articles about signal transduction from 45 different journals, including some that are represented at this symposium.
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Astronomy, as most other fields of science, operates under a flat budget, so astronomers spend as much money as they get from their funding sources to build new observational tools and computer equipment to get more data. The data in astronomy typically become public after about one year, because there is an initial proprietary period of use for the people who build the observing instruments and who schedule observing time, but after that the data are released.
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Professor Szalay got into this through the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which is sometimes called the Cosmic Genome project. It is one of the first big astronomy projects that is set up in that mode, to map the sky not just to do one thing, but to try to create the ultimate map.
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This idea has taken off. About a year and a half ago, NSF funded a project for building the framework for the national virtual observatory, which involves all the major astronomy data resources in the United States astronomy data centers, national observatories, supercomputer centers, universities, and people from various disciplines, including statistics and computer science.
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GENOMIC DATA CURATION AND INTEGRATION WITH THE LITERATURE David Lipman, National Institutes of Health/National Center for Biotechnology Information24 David Lipman recently met with Jim Gray and Alex Szalay. A stimulating discussion on the similarities and differences between biomedical research and astronomy ensued.
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Supplementary data files are also increasingly submitted with research articles, and these too are frequently linked back to the source information. A typical functional genomics approach, such as gene expression analysis, generally requires a range of genomic data to set up the experiments - sequence data from a number of transcripts or genomes are needed to design microarrray chips.
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First, the exponential data growth is now present in many fields. It illustrates that the challenge and opportunity includes going to higher performance networks, higher speed computers, and greater capacity storage, but to do that together with another dimension that he mentioned earlier, and that is functional completeness, by having the complete range of services.
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Given that there is a stronger theoretical base in astronomy from physics and there is this natural organizing principle, it is possible with a variety of computations to actually assess some aspects of how good the data are. In biology, at the level of the genome, transcripts, proteins, and, to some extent, protein structure, there are organizing principles that are natural and strong enough to allow detection of data anomalies that do not make sense.
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How might this issue be addressed, particularly for disciplines that are not as far along as those that are putting together these huge data sets? Alex Szalay responded that in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which is now about 40 percent ready, 90
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That is a theme he hears from scholars in every field from history all the way through biology. Transformation of Archiving in the Knowledge Discovery Processes Marcus Banks, of the National Library of Medicine, asked a question that he hoped connects sessions four and five.
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However, he thought the goal of BISTI would be to recommend more training for scientists and more money for computational research for the kind of work that Alex Szalay referred to, where one analyzes other peoples' data sets, because there is a huge number of discoveries to be made. There is to some extent a lost opportunity, because there are not enough biologists researching and writing papers that get J .
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People will be much less reluctant to cross boundaries, for example, if the data are all available in a ratified and documented form. The Value of Knowledge Discovery Mark Doyle, of the APS, said he was amazed when listening to the presentations and comments in this session because they make what he does when he publishes simple papers look trivial in terms of the amount of data and text published.
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The role of the journals is absolutely critical, and JBC was one of the real pioneer journals in pushing submission to the sequence databases and getting essentially 100 percent compliance.
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