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What the Web Has Done for Scientific Data – and What It Hasn’t

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Advances in Web-Age Information Management (WAIM 2005)

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The web, together with database technology, has radically changed the way scientific research is conducted. Scientists now have access to an unprecedented quantity and range of data, and the speed and ease of communication of all forms of scientific data has increased hugely. This change has come at a price. Web and database technology no longer support some of the desirable properties of paper publication, and it has introduced new problems in maintaining the scientific record. This brief paper is an examination of some of these issues.

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  1. School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh and Digital Curation Centre,  

    Peter Buneman

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  1. University of Edinburgh & Bell Laboratories,  

    Wenfei Fan

  2. College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, 310027, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

    Zhaohui Wu

  3. Dept. of E. I. E, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

    Jun Yang

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Buneman, P. (2005). What the Web Has Done for Scientific Data – and What It Hasn’t. In: Fan, W., Wu, Z., Yang, J. (eds) Advances in Web-Age Information Management. WAIM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3739. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11563952_1

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