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1 Opening Session
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... The event was organized by two boards of the National Academies, the Board on Research Data and Information in collaboration with the Computer Sciences Telecommunications Board. In my opening remarks, I would like to address two points: one on the motivation for this event and the other one on the means.
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... As mentioned with the ATLAS Project example in the opening presentation, as advanced scientific instruments are developed, they enable tremendous new capabilities. The challenge is how to accommodate and take advantage of these new capabilities, and how does this impact the cyberinfrastructure environment?
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... Genomic data are being generated at incredible rates at many universities and medical centers, and managing that data across hundreds of sites is a significant challenge. The fourth challenge deals with data access.
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... Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure established six task forces that worked for almost 2 years to develop a series of recommendations on cyberinfrastructure. The data task force addressed these issues in depth, and as the task force concluded, there are infrastructure components to deal with, as well as culture changes and economic sustainability.
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... Obviously the skills for experimental and theoretical science are not going to disappear -- we still need and use them -- but computational science requires people to know about, for example, numerical methods, algorithms, computer architectures, and parallel programming. This is a set of specialized skills for doing work in areas such as climate prediction and modeling galaxy formation.
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... He believed that this was the future global digital library for science and that it could lead to a huge increase in scientific productivity, because the research process is fairly inefficient at present, as described in Figure 1-4. FIGURE 1-4 All scientific data online.
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... The important factor in this case is that data curation and management were considered a priority from the very beginning, so the developers built a system that embodied that. 3 At Rutgers University's Coastal Ocean Observation Lab, scientists have been collecting high-frequency radar data that can remotely measure ocean surface waves and currents.
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... He felt there was a range of actions that could be done, and that is what he meant by funding generic laboratory information management systems -- support going from data capture to publication. His advice was to "let a thousand flowers bloom"-scientific data management research, data analysis, data visualization, and new algorithms and tools.
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... 5 ORCID aims to solve the author-contributor name ambiguity problem in scholarly communications by creating a central registry of unique identifiers for individual researchers and an open and transparent linking mechanism FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN OPEN NETWORKED ENVIRONMENTS 11
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... The University Library budget has gone up by an average of 3.1 percent per year since 2004, and according to Library Journal magazine, the average subscription price of national arts and humanities journals has increased 6.8 percent per year since 2003. National social science journals increased 9.2 percent and national science journals increased by 8.3 percent.
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... Webometrics Google Scholar Ranking July 2010 Southampton # 21 VirginiaTech # 37 Cambridge # 97 Oxford # 115 Clearly not a `perfect' metric but equally clearly, this must measure something of relevance for the research reputation of a university ... · Institutional Research Repository must be part of the university's `Reputation Management' strategy FIGURE 1-7 Webometrics Google Scholar ranking.
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... In the conclusion of his paper, Prof. Ginsparg wrote, "On a one-decade timescale it is likely that more research communities will join some form of global unified archive system without the current partitioning and access restrictions familiar with the paper medium for the simple reason that it is the best way to communicate knowledge and hence to create new knowledge.
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... The final example was the CLADDIER project with the British Atmospheric Data Center, which was concerned with linking data to publications, and, again, it was very interesting.
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... Gray's big digital global library that contains data and publications.
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... Supercomputer centers produce huge amounts of data, and it will be difficult to manage and transfer the petabytes of data that they produce, so I think that we will have supercomputer centers with data centers. I think there will probably be some regional data centers.


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