The Future of Scientific Knowledge Discovery in Open Networked Environments: Summary of a Workshop Contributor(s): National Research Council (Author), Policy and Global Affairs (Author), Board on Research Data and Information (Author) |
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ISBN: 0309267919 ISBN-13: 9780309267915 Publisher: National Academies Press OUR PRICE: $45.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2013 |
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BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - General - Science | Research & Methodology - Science | Microscopes & Microscopy |
Dewey: 502.8 |
LCCN: 2012288569 |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 8.4" W x 10.9" (1.35 lbs) 200 pages |
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Publisher Description: Digital technologies and networks are now part of everyday work in the sciences, and have enhanced access to and use of scientific data, information, and literature significantly. They offer the promise of accelerating the discovery and communication of knowledge, both within the scientific community and in the broader society, as scientific data and information are made openly available online. The focus of this project was on computer-mediated or computational scientific knowledge discovery, taken broadly as any research processes enabled by digital computing technologies. Such technologies may include data mining, information retrieval and extraction, artificial intelligence, distributed grid computing, and others. These technological capabilities support computer-mediated knowledge discovery, which some believe is a new paradigm in the conduct of research. The emphasis was primarily on digitally networked data, rather than on the scientific, technical, and medical literature. The meeting also focused mostly on the advantages of knowledge discovery in open networked environments, although some of the disadvantages were raised as well. The workshop brought together a set of stakeholders in this area for intensive and structured discussions. The purpose was not to make a final declaration about the directions that should be taken, but to further the examination of trends in computational knowledge discovery in the open networked environments, based on the following questions and tasks: 1. Opportunities and Benefits: What are the opportunities over the next 5 to 10 years associated with the use of computer-mediated scientific knowledge discovery across disciplines in the open online environment? What are the potential benefits to science and society of such techniques? The Future of Scientific Knowledge Discovery in Open Networked Environments: Summary of a Workshop summarizes the responses to these questions and tasks at hand. |