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6 What Constitutes a Publication in the Digital Environmental?
6 What Constitutes a Publication in the Digital Environmental?
Pages 56-66
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We are seeing the development of community databases that structure and disseminate knowledge alongside traditional publishing. From that perspective, one might usefully ask questions about how people author articles, given the new opportunities technology is making possible.
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,2 developed by Science, was to move beyond the electronic fulltext journal model. The idea was to provide researchers with an online environment that linked together all the different kinds of information they use, not just their journals, so that they could move more easily among them and decrease the time that was required for gathering information, thereby giving them much more time for valuable research and increasing their productivity.
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PUBLISHING LARGE DATA SETS IN ASTRONOMY- THE VIRTUAL OBSERVATORY3 Why is the publishing of large data sets an issue? Scientific data are increasing exponentially, not just in astronomy but in science generally.
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Alex Szalay, of the Johns Hopkins University, and Jim Gray, of Microsoft Research, have begun a project to make these astronomical data understandable and useable by high school students. They opened their Web site in 2001, and after 2 years they have about 12 million pages online and get about 1 million hits per month.
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One can, for ex 4This section is based on a presentation by David Lipman, director of the National Center for Biotechnology Information. 5See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ for additional information about the NCBI.
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ISSUES RAISED IN THE DISCUSSION The Need for Federal Coordination and Investment in the Cyberinfrastructure The exponential data growth in many fields illustrates that the challenges and opportunities include going to higher performance networks, higher speed computers, and greater capacity storage, but to do that together with functional completeness by having the complete range of services. There is exciting potential for multiuse technologies: The common underlying infrastructure is serving the leading edge of science, and making the learning of science more vivid, more authentic, and exciting.
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If their purpose is to help researchers be more efficient, and to advance science and serve society, then the new technologies and new business models need to be examined much more thoroughly. Publishing Large and Complex Data Sets for Knowledge Discovery The methods for organizing and labeling the huge data sets reflect current knowledge in the field.
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One of the reasons researchers focused on molecular biology was that they really did not understand enough from the top down. If one looks at proteins or genes that are involved in cancer, you find those that are a part of glycolytic pathways, and so forth.
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In areas of ubiquitous computing, people could subsequently return and actually mine processes and extract new knowledge that otherwise has been left on the table. It is an extension of the notion of data mining into knowledge process mining, so it can get very abstract, but we can start to see that it is not just fanciful but something to think about.
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That can only be done so fast. The Role of Journals in the Successful Development of Databases in Molecular Biology The enormous success of factual databases in molecular biology and the scientific community's reliance upon them are largely results of the collaborative effort the journals have made with regard to their requirement that the data be deposited as a prerequisite to publication.
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The Journal of Biological Chemistry, a not-for-profit journal published by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, was one of the pioneer journals in requiring submission to the sequence databases and in getting essentially 100 percent compliance.
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