Our overriding goal is to create an Inventory of data that are at risk, and whose unique scientific information is in danger of being lost to posterity. We define "data at risk" in this context as scientific data which are not in a format that permits full electronic access to the information which they contain. Such data may be inherently non-digital (e.g. handwritten or photographic), on near-obsolete digital media (such as magnetic tapes) or insufficiently described (lacking meta-data). Some born-digital data can also be considered "at risk" if they cannot be ingested into managed databases because they lack adequate formatting or metadata.
In the summer of 2005, an international expert group was brought together for a workshop to define and produce a new vision and roadmap of the evolution, challenges and potential of computer science and computing in scientific research in the next fifteen years. The Towards 2020 Science report inspired a special issue of Nature on '2020 Computing'.
The portal is designed for librarians working in research organizations that generate, share, store and/or use data for basic scientific research in the health, biological, and physical sciences. Bringing together resources on education, outreach and collaboration, current practices and e-science news—the portal provides librarians with the tools, knowledge and skills to effectively participate in networked science. A collaborative project devoted to educating science and medical librarians on e-Science. initiated at the University of Massachusetts Medical School through funding from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. Content for the portal is contributed by a dedicated team of subject specialists from diverse New England research libraries. e-Science news, events, projects, and tutorials. The e-Science portal is a resource for librarians to learn about and discuss: e-Science and its impact on librarianship and domain sciences that use e-Science techniques.
N. Gray, T. Carozzi, and G. Woan. (2012)cite arxiv:1207.3923 Comment: Project final report, 45 pages: see http://purl.org/nxg/projects/mrd-gw for project details, and http://purl.org/nxg/projects/mrd-gw/report for other document versions.