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Knowledge Lost in Information: Report of the NSF Workshop on Digital Library Research Directions

Home / Project Briefing Pages / CNI Fall 2003 Project Briefings / Knowledge Lost in Information: Report of the NSF Workshop on Digital Library Research Directions

December 1, 2003

Ronald L. Larsen
Dean and Professor
University of Pittsburgh

Donald Waters
Program Officer for Scholarly Communications
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

J. Downie
Assistant Professor
University of Illnois at Urbana-Champaign

Digital libraries are transforming research and scholarship. Vast quantities of information are being collected and stored online and organized so that they are accessible to everyone. Substantial improvements in scholarly productivity are already apparent. Digital resources have demonstrated the potential to advance scholarly productivity, easily doubling research output in many fields within the next decade. These resources may also become primary resources for education, holding the potential for advances in life-long learning that have been sought for many years. Productivity is increasing because scientists can test new hypotheses against already stored data, instead of performing additional experiments. Key data are increasingly gathered by automated sensors and recorded in large databanks. But the potential advances in knowledge are at risk without a comprehensive program of federal research to manage the ever-increasing flood of information.

In June 2003 the NSF sponsored a workshop in Chatham, Massachusetts, involving recognized national and international scholars and researchers to frame the long-term research agenda necessary to realize such a scholarly communication infrastructure. This session will present an advance look into the upcoming report and conclusions of that workshop.

Web Page:
http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dlwkshop

Presentation:
Knowledge Lost in Information

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Filed Under: CNI Fall 2003 Project Briefings, Digital Libraries, E-Science
Tagged With: CNI2003fall, Project Briefings & Plenary Sessions

Last updated:  Tuesday, May 14th, 2013

 

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