Open Data in the Age of Exponential Science
I’ve read a number of books and articles by Glyn Moody, who tends to cover technology (e.g., Linux).
I stumbled across an article by him on his blog: Open Data in the Age of Exponential Science which references a recent Nature article Science in an exponential world. (Well, the article is from March, but considering the frequency that I’ve been blogging, that qualifies as recent.)
Moody titles his blog “Open…, evidently interested in the range of open source, open data, etc.
I’m biased. Science has, as I mentioned in previous posts, been interested in open ideas — it’s now an integral part of the culture of scientific research. But I agree with these articles that an increasing question is how this culture of openness can tackle larger (and smaller) projects. The key appears to be addressing common interconversion of scientific data and questions about open databases.
This is why I think there’s an excellent interface between science and open source software.
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