Archive for April, 2009

The great data explosion

From The Australian Higher Education:

THEY call it the “data deluge”.

The next five years will produce more research data than has been produced in all of previous human history, presenting researchers with daunting discovery challenges.

Dr Wilkinson made the comments with the announcement that Monash, the CSIRO and the Australian National University would host a $20million service aimed at better managing the data deluge generated by years of research and advances in technology.

Full Article: Interview with Ross Wilkinson, executive director of the Monash University-based Australian National Data Service.

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