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Commercial search engine developers and universities: a critical time for collaboration in the coming age of publicly accessible research data

Author
Kramer, Stefan; Block, William C.
Abstract
Driven by new data sharing requirements from funding agencies, most recently and notably the National Science Foundation, academic researchers are on the verge of making rapidly increasing amounts and varieties of research data available for replication of
findings and re-use. Universities are now building or enhancing repositories to help researchers make their data available, and are employing and helping develop domain-specific metadata standards, such
as the DDI, to aid in the discoverability and manageability of these datasets. However, with the growing amount of data and number of
repositories, the risk of "data silos" increases as well. Providers of
commercial search engines must join the current efforts of global, web-scale data discovery - otherwise, the usefulness of the search engines AND the research data generated with public funding are both at risk.
Description
This presentation was given at the Wolfram Data Summit 2011 on 2011-09-09.
Date Issued
2011-11-17Subject
Metadata; Search & Discovery; Research data
Related Version
Same presentation on the conference organizer's web site: http://www.wolframdatasummit.org/2011/attendee/presentations/
Type
presentation