15 April 2010
In the following videos, the producer traces the history of scientific communication from verbal/in-person, to letters, and then to printed journals. The producer describes the work of ISI and the company’s founder, Eugene Garfield. Journals grew from a handful to thousands. This led to classification and indexing in order to find relevant journal articles via [...]
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1 December 2009
The data deluge refers to the increasingly large and complex data sets generated by researchers that must be managed by their creators with “industrial-scale data centres and cutting-edge networking technology” (Nature 455) in order to provide for use and re-use of the data.
The lack of standards and infrastructure to appropriately manage this (often tax-payer [...]
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