Information Gulags, Intellectual Straightjackets, and Memory Holes: Three Principles to Guide the Preservation of Scientific Data

I would like to focus on three problem areas that are alluded to in the title of this essay. They all have to do with the social, rather than the technical, systems in research that undermine data preservation functions or the subsequent exploitation of the data for the benefit of research and socie...

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Main Author: Paul F Uhlir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2010-09-01
Series:Data Science Journal
Online Access:http://datascience.codata.org/articles/166
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title_short Information Gulags, Intellectual Straightjackets, and Memory Holes: Three Principles to Guide the Preservation of Scientific Data
title_full Information Gulags, Intellectual Straightjackets, and Memory Holes: Three Principles to Guide the Preservation of Scientific Data
title_fullStr Information Gulags, Intellectual Straightjackets, and Memory Holes: Three Principles to Guide the Preservation of Scientific Data
title_full_unstemmed Information Gulags, Intellectual Straightjackets, and Memory Holes: Three Principles to Guide the Preservation of Scientific Data
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description I would like to focus on three problem areas that are alluded to in the title of this essay. They all have to do with the social, rather than the technical, systems in research that undermine data preservation functions or the subsequent exploitation of the data for the benefit of research and society.
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