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

As digital technologies are expanding the power and reach of research, they are also raising complex issues. These include complications in ensuring the validity of research data; standards that do not keep pace with the high rate of innovation; restrictions on data sharing that reduce the ability of researchers to verify results and build on previous research; and huge increases in the amount of data being generated, creating severe challenges in preserving that data for long-term use. Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of Research Data in the Digital Age examines the consequences of the changes affecting research data with respect to three issues - integrity, accessibility, and stewardship - and finds a need for a new approach to the design and management of research projects. The report recommends that all researchers receive appropriate training in the management of research data, and calls on researchers to make all research data, methods, and other information publicly accessible in a timely manner. The book also sees the stewardship of research data as a critical long-term task for the research enterprise and its stakeholders. Individual researchers, research institutions, professional societies, and journals involved in scientific, engineering, and medical research will find this book an essential guide to the principles affecting research data in the digital age.

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• Authors: Committee on Ensuring the Utility and In, Committee on Ensuring the Utility and Integrity of Research Data in a Digital Age, Engineering Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy Committee on Science, Committee on Science Engineering and Pub, Committee on Science Engineering and Public Policy, Institute Of Medicine, National Academy Of Engineering, National Academy Of Sciences, Policy And Global Affairs
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2009
• EAN: 9780309136846
• ISBN: 978-0-309-13684-6
• No. of pages: 178
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 229 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 289 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries