From the report: "Digital technologies and networks are now part of everyday
work in the sciences, and have enhanced access to and use of scientific data,
information, and literature significantly. They offer the promise of
accelerating the discovery and communication of knowledge, both within the
scientific community and in the broader society, as scientific data and
information are made openly available online. The focus of this project was on
computer-mediated or computational scientific knowledge discovery, taken broadly
as any research processes enabled by digital computing technologies. Such
technologies may include data mining, information retrieval and extraction,
artificial intelligence, distributed grid computing, and others. These
technological capabilities support computer-mediated knowledge discovery, which
some believe is a new paradigm in the conduct of research. The emphasis was
primarily on digitally networked data, rather than on the scientific,
technical, and medical literature. The meeting also focused mostly on the
advantages of knowledge discovery in open networked environments, although some
of the disadvantages were raised as well." Read more
