Transnational exchange of scientific data: The ``Bits of Power'' report

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Jul 1998

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The first international conference on atomic and molecular data and their standards. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 434, pp

Computer Science

Information Theory

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Information Theory And Communication Theory

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In 1994, the U.S. National Committee for the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA), organized under the Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Applications of the National Research Council established the Committee on Issues in the Transborder Flow of Scientific Data. The purpose of this Committee was to examine the current state of global access to scientific data, to identify strengths, problems and challenges confronting scientists now, or likely to arise in the next few years, and to make recommendations on building the strengths and ameliorating or avoiding the problems. The Committee's report appeared as the book Bits of Power: Issues in Global Access to Scientific Data (National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1997). This presentation is a brief summary of that report, particularly as it pertains to atomic and molecular data. The context is necessarily the evolution toward increasing electronic acquisition, archiving and distribution of scientific data. Thus the central issues were divided into the technological infrastructure, the issues for the sciences and scientists in the various disciplines, the economic aspects and the legal issues. For purposes of this study, the sciences fell naturally into four groups: the laboratory physical sciences, the biological sciences, the earth sciences and the astronomical and planetary sciences. Some of the substantive scientific aspects are specific to particular groups of sciences, but the matters of infrastructure, economic questions and legal issues apply, for the most part, to all the sciences.

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