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3 How Might Open Online Knowledge Discovery Advance the Progress of Science?
Pages 69-132

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... Technological Factors Session Chair: Hal Abelson -MIT FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN OPEN NETWORKED ENVIRONMENTS 69
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... Google's valuation in 2011 is about $190 billion, FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN OPEN NETWORKED ENVIRONMENTS 71
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... SOURCE: James Hendler 74 THE FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN OPEN NETWORKED ENVIRONMENTS
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... There are three fundamental issues that communities or universities must address: (1) What kinds of data and information are made open, at what stage in the research process, and FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN OPEN NETWORKED ENVIRONMENTS 77
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... Recognizing the importance of persistent access and FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN OPEN NETWORKED ENVIRONMENTS 79
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... We are seeing a lot of pressure in that direction, and it is promising that several of these big libraries are helping to lead that area. 12 See: http://vivo.ufl.edu FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN OPEN NETWORKED ENVIRONMENTS 81
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... Sociocultural, Institutional, and Organizational Factors Session Chair: Michael Lesk -Rutgers University THE FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN OPEN NETWORKED ENVIRONMENTS 83
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... The publisher will demand that THE FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN OPEN NETWORKED ENVIRONMENTS 85
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... I was at a THE FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN OPEN NETWORKED ENVIRONMENTS 87
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... SOURCE: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change THE FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN OPEN NETWORKED ENVIRONMENTS 89
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... SOURCE: European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts 90 THE FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN OPEN NETWORKED ENVIRONMENTS
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... Metadata is another issue that appears in the climate and weather data story. It is not obvious to us what people in the future will need to know about the data we collect now -- and THE FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN OPEN NETWORKED ENVIRONMENTS 91
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... There is a conflict between the mandates of institutions like the IPCC, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health that want us to publish and share data, but there are few career incentives for sharing data. The career incentives are for the 94 THE FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN OPEN NETWORKED ENVIRONMENTS
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... I would say that the very critical issue about an institutional repository is that an institution is taking 96 THE FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN OPEN NETWORKED ENVIRONMENTS
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... That concept has not genuinely been tested on its merits in the courts, and the problem with it is that there is a dark underside that some people have identified. That is, it is one thing 104 THE FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN OPEN NETWORKED ENVIRONMENTS
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... Consider the questions in Box 3-1: THE FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN OPEN NETWORKED ENVIRONMENTS 105
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... Finally, most data are useless without a description of the items in this dataset: not just how the data are recorded on the medium or the database schema, but also how they were 110 THE FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN OPEN NETWORKED ENVIRONMENTS
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... Session Chair: Francine Berman -Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute THE FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN OPEN NETWORKED ENVIRONMENTS 117
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... Our panelists will examine what works, how we might assess the effectiveness and success of our THE FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN OPEN NETWORKED ENVIRONMENTS 119
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... As a scientist, the first thought is to fall back on the scientific method, and how the problems of openness and communication of discoveries have both been THE FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN OPEN NETWORKED ENVIRONMENTS 121
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... FIGURE 3-11 Barriers to data and code sharing in computational science. SOURCE: Victoria Stodden THE FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN OPEN NETWORKED ENVIRONMENTS 125
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... All of the DOE's THE FUTURE OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN OPEN NETWORKED ENVIRONMENTS 127
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Key Terms

  • networked environments
  • public domain
  • data sharing
  • computational science
  • weather data

  • copyright law
  • database directive
  • share data
  • journal literature
  • big issue

  • scholarly literature
  • gray literature
  • creative commons
  • openly available
  • clinical trials

  • sharing data
  • using data
  • government data
  • data mining
  • principals data

  • data warehouse
  • knowledge investment
  • software development
  • investment curve
  • digital data

  • data openly
  • data curation
  • raw data
  • data deluge
  • scientific software


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