International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) Annual Conference — Managing Data for Science

摘要

This 2009 ICSTI annual conference was essentially about 'Data' - the primary, often raw, quantified, initial outputs from research projects which are held in digital form in a variety of media formats and repositories throughout the world. In some cases the raw data is stored on disc in a researcher's personal filing system never again to see the light of day. In other cases subject-based datasets have become huge accumulations which test the ability of the science community to handle and curate them. The social and economic loss to Science in general in not having a consistent international policy to manage data and datasets is huge, and is growing as more and more scientific areas become data-centric in their approach.