E-science: The new environment for scientific and technical information management (SIG STI)

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E -Sc ien ce : The New Environment for Scientific and Technical Information Management Sponsored by SIG STI Patricia Flanagan [Moderator] Worcester Polytechnic Institute Sangtae "Sang" Kim National Science Foundation. Email: [email protected] Gary Foley Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency. Email: [email protected] Neil Beagrie Joint Information Systems Committee (UK). Email: [email protected] Dramatic change in scientific research practice is collaborative work are taking place thanks to this underway. Science is changing. Computers have already terascale-ready infrastructure. What do these become commonplace. High-speed networks that bring cyberinfrastructures mean for the conduct of science? terms such as teraflop and petabyte to conversations What implications do these changes have for information regarding data and computational resources are making e- management, organization, access and preservation? science a reality. New levels and global partnerships of 2004 Proceedings of the 67th ASIS&T Annual Meeting, vol. 41 550

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E -Sc ie n ce : The New Environment for Scientific and Technical Information Management

Sponsored by SIG STI

Patricia Flanagan [Moderator] Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Sangtae "Sang" Kim National Science Foundation. Email: [email protected]

Gary Foley Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency. Email: [email protected]

Neil Beagrie Joint Information Systems Committee (UK). Email: [email protected]

Dramatic change in scientific research practice is collaborative work are taking place thanks to this underway. Science is changing. Computers have already terascale-ready infrastructure. What do these become commonplace. High-speed networks that bring cyberinfrastructures mean for the conduct of science? terms such as teraflop and petabyte to conversations What implications do these changes have for information regarding data and computational resources are making e- management, organization, access and preservation? science a reality. New levels and global partnerships of

2004 Proceedings of the 67th ASIS&T Annual Meeting, vol. 41 550