Empirical studies of the information practices and needs of scientists date back to at least the 1940s. This work has increasingly focused on identifying differences across disciplines, but it has been primarily concerned ...

Abstract Scientific data problems do not stand in isolation but are part of a larger set of challenges associated with the expansion of scientific information gathering capacity and changes in scholarly communication ...

Two research teams within the Data Conservancy (http://dataconservancy.org/) project are investigating different aspects of scientific data curation. Data Concepts is developing a conceptual model to foster shared understanding ...

New practices are emerging in all stages of biological research, from data collection through dissemination of results. In addition, libraries and museums are increasingly being called upon to become the long-term curators ...

Scientific data is encoded and described with the aim of supporting retrieval, meaningful interpretation and reuse. Encoding standards for datasets like FGDC, DwC, EML typically include tagged metadata elements along with ...