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Current Situation - Data Generation
Synthesis Characterisation
Current Situation – Data Management
“Data from experiments conducted as recently as six months ago might be suddenly deemed important, but those researchers may never find those numbers – or if they did might not know what those numbers meant”
“Lost in some research assistant’s computer, the data are often irretrievable or an undecipherable string of digits”
“To vet experiments, correct errors, or find new breakthroughs, scientists desperately need better ways to store and retrieve research data”
“Data from Big Science is … easier to handle, understand and archive. Small Science is horribly heterogeneous and far more vast. In time Small Science will generate 2-3 times more data than Big Science.”
‘Lost in a Sea of Science Data’ S.Carlson, The Chronicle of Higher Education (23/06/2006)
Current Situation – Data and Publishing
Separating Data from Interpretations Underlying data
(Institutional data repository)
Intellect & Interpretation
(Journal article, report,
etc)
Smart Labs
Laboratory IRs and Information Management
The R4L Repository
Deposit
Search / Browse
Create new compound Add experiment data and metadata
Blogging Experiments
A repository can…
• Allow one to put, store and get digital objects
• Provide minimal search and browse functions
• NOT provide the presentation and discussion functions essential to a scientific study
• Social networking tools and approaches can provide a way…
Data and Blogs
• Developing relationship between Blog and R4L repository: social networking tools and broker technology
• Repository back-end, Blog for sharing data with collaborators and developing ideas / conclusions based on data