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AI and new standards promise to make scientific data more useful by making it reusable and accessible

  • Written by Bradley Wade Bishop, Professor of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee
imageData replication is an integral part of the scientific process, which proper research data management can improve. Tom Werner/DigitalVision via Getty Images

Every time a scientist runs an experiment, or a social scientist does a survey, or a humanities scholar analyzes a text, they generate data. Science runs on data – without it, we...

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