Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of Research Data in the Digital Age

摘要

Advances in digital computing, communications, sensors, and storage technologies are revolutionizing nearly every area of scientific, engineering, and medical research. Today, researchers are employing sophisticated technologies to generate, analyze, and share data to address questions that were unapproachable just a few years ago. They are carrying out detailed simulations to guide theoretical approaches and to validate new experimental approaches. They are working in interdisciplinary and often international teams on complex integrative problems that require inputs from a multitude of perspectives. They are using data generated by others to augment their own data and sometimes to address problems that the original researchers could not have envisioned. Digital technologies have fostered a new world of research characterized by immense datasets, unprecedented levels of openness among researchers, and new connections among researchers, policy makers, and the public.