The journal Nature has just come out with its latest issue, which includes a special section on “Big Data” — the flood of scientific data and its implications for science and for scholarly communication. It includes several superb articles, and a brief commentary that I’ve written on data curation issues. Readers interested in cyberinfrastructure, e-science or data curation and management will find much of value here. The special section is available for public access at present (the site says it will be open for two weeks), and can be found at:
