Shuichi Iwata, Message from the President, CODATA Online Handbook, February 10, 2006. Iwata is the President of CODATA. Excerpt:
If someone were to ask me to identify three major scientific developments I envisage taking place over the next five to ten years within the scientific data community that could have a major impact on the future development of science and which could serve the needs of society, I would list the following: [1] The entire store of available scientific data and information - the results of several centuries of work - will become available electronically and accessible virtually everywhere. [2] Science will be carried out more and more through long-distance collaborations enabled by the internet. These collaborations will rely on access to large data collections, large scale computing resources and high performance visualization. The powerful infrastructure needed to support e-science will be the Grid. These mammoth and comprehensive collections will be a major source of scientific discovery in the future, with e-science gradually gaining precedence. [3] Systems will be developed that allow the general public to access, understand and take advantage of the data and information collections mentioned above.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/10/2006 08:19:00 AM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
