Freeing Dark Data
Posted November 8, 2007 
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Comments(0) | Interesting article by Thomas Goetz concerning “open notebook” science….
What happens to all the research that doesn’t yield a dramatic outcome — or, worse, the opposite of what researchers had hoped? It ends up stuffed in some lab drawer. The result is a vast body of squandered knowledge that represents a waste of resources and a drag on scientific progress. This information — call it dark data — must be set free.
Source : Wired 15.10
