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The Interagency Working Group on Digital Data to the National Science and Technology Council (U.S.) has release its report, Harnessing the Power of Digital Data for Science and Society" . " The report lays out a strategic vision for ´a digital scientific data universe in which data creation, collection, documentation, analysis, preservation, and dissemination can be appropriately, reliably, and readily managed, thereby enhancing the return on our nation’s research and development investment by ensuring that digital data realize their full potential as catalysts for progress in our global information society .' "

The latest Nature -- Vol 455(7209), 4 September 2008 -- is a special issue on " Big Data ". Articles (& editorial) include: Editorial (2008). Community cleverness required Nature, 455 (7209), 1-1 DOI: 10.1038/455001a David Goldston (2008). Big data: Data wrangling Nature, 455 (7209), 15-15 DOI: 10.1038/455015a Cory Doctorow (2008). Big data: Welcome to the petacentre Nature, 455 (7209), 16-21 DOI: 10.1038/455016a Mitch Waldrop (2008). Big data: Wikiomics Nature, 455 (7209), 22-25 DOI: 10.1038/455022a Clifford Lynch (2008). Big data: How do your data grow? Nature, 455 (7209), 28-29 DOI: 10.1038/455028a Sue Nelson (2008). Big data: The Harvard computers Nature, 455 (7209), 36-37 DOI: 10.1038/455036a Doug Howe, Maria Costanzo, Petra Fey, Takashi Gojobori, Linda Hannick, Winston Hide, David P. Hill, Renate Kania, Mary Schaeffer, Susan St Pierre, Simon Twigger, Owen White, Seung Yon Rhee (2008). Big data: The future of biocuration Nature, 455 (7209), 47-50 DOI: 10.103...

One of the implications of research data archiving is that there will likely be large datasets on a variety of subjects. How third parties will analyse these data in a scalable fashion has not entirely been addressed. But the recent conference examines some of the issues for a class of data, images and signals : Advances in Mass Data Analysis of Images and Signals in Medicine, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Food Industry (Third International Conference, MDA 2008 Leipzig, Germany, July 14, 2008) and includes: Burcu Yılmaz, Mehmet Göktürk, Natalie Shvets (2008). User Assisted Substructure Extraction in Molecular Data Mining. Advances in Mass Data Analysis of Images and Signals in Medicine, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Food Industry, 5108 , 12-26 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-70715-8_4 Franco Chiarugi, Sara Colantonio, Dimitra Emmanouilidou, Davide Moroni, Ovidio Salvetti (2008). Biomedical Signal and Image Processing for Decision Support in Heart Failure. Advances in Mass Data Analysis of Imag...