Big Data

All researchers are familiar with the idea that publishing articles is a key part of advancing their career. However, only a few people think about publishing the raw data behind…

The Metadata 2020 program will advocate for richer metadata. Metadata is simply digital data that describes other data. This ambitious program is spearheaded by CrossRef and…

Data science relies on software programs to manage and analyze large data sets. Big data has become the buzzword and is helping both industry and academia to become data-driven.…

Scientists are particularly interested in collecting data, and the success of each experiment is determined by the novel data that is generated, which can contribute to advancing…

As academic publishing has made the transition from print editions to electronic editions, librarians, facing leaner budgets and an inability to deselect specific low-interest…

The first Apple Macintosh, which celebrated its 30th birthday in 2014, came with 128KB (0.13MB) of memory! Today, we buy laptops and external hard drives with 1Terabyte…

It’s safe to say that there is no research without data. It can be good, bad, or inconclusive, and we pay very close attention to both the methodologies by which it is collected…

What is Big Data? Growing concern over how much data is available to researchers and the potential for what we can do with all of that data is arguably one of the hottest topics…

METRICS: A Little Backdrop In 2005, the Public Library of Science (PLoS) Medicine journal published a paper by Greek researcher Dr. John Ioannidis entitled “Why most published…

After the unprecedented success of the Human Genome Project, many similar "megaprojects" that were previously dismissed as beyond our current research capabilities have been…