On 16 Sep 2009, at 12:33, Andrew Treloar wrote:
>> But as others have said, research data swamps the articles.
>
> And will increasingly do so. In fact, I can see a day when the size
> of the entire journal literature will be a rounding error on the
> total size of all research outputs. In some disciplines we are there
> already.
Lest we forget - size isn't everything. Journal papers are valuable
precisely because they summarise scientific observations, turning
Petabytes of data and information into a fraction of a megabyte of
knowledge.
Well, a fraction of a megabyte of PDF. Probably only a kilobyte of
mathML. It's just the opposite of a picture being worth a thousand
words :-)
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Les
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