In 1993-1994, when the Web (synonymous in most minds now with the Internet) was still young, the pace of progress was so rapid that some wag worked out that one “web-year” was like a dog-year, worth about 7 years of normal human time. So in this respect, 1994 is now some 133 web-years ago. Long enough for an archaeological excavation.
And so it was that I came across two Web-pages that have suddenly acquired a topical significance:
- http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue1/clic
- http://doi.org/10.1080/13614579509516846[cite]10.1080/13614579509516846[/cite]
Their topicality in part arises from e.g. http://www.rsc.org/AboutUs/News/PressReleases/2013/RSC-announces-chemical-sciences-repository.asp where the RSC seeks community support to help curate the data we as scientists produce.
Some of my recent posts (this one on dual-publisher models and this one on publishing procedures) also pertain to this and Peter Murray-Rust is constantly blogging on the topic (see this for the latest).
Perhaps 2013 will indeed be the year of data!Â