The U.K. government announced nearly £300 million ($500 million) of new investment in large-scale science projects yesterday.
They have christened their approach Semantic Data Processing (SDP), and describe its benefits, impact and future challenges for large scale science in the article "Lightweight Semantic Data Processing for Facility Science".
It's a good example of the international horse-trading and cooperation that large scale science needs.
The term Big Science first appeared in a 1961 article in Science magazine, titled "Impact of Large-Scale Science on the United States," by physicist and Oak Ridge National Laboratory director Alvin Weinberg.
The meeting's attendees were treated at the outset to a round of inspiration from David Shoemaker, the director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in Cambridge, who walked them through the observatory's history as an object lesson in how to succeed with large-scale science.
The co-production of theories is normal in large scale investigations in the natural sciences but is much less common in the social and behavioural sciences.
Palankar et al. [19] evaluated in 2008 the ability of Amazon S3 to provide storage to large-scale science projects from the perspective of cost, availability and performance.
Increased public and private investments in large-scale team science initiatives over the past two decades have underscored the need to better understand how contextual factors influence the effectiveness of transdisciplinary scientific collaboration.
By considering our findings, we hope that freshwater ecologists, and particularly those who engage in large-scale citizen science, can develop a set of best practices for these types of surveys and also recognize the utility of incorporating DNA barcoding into these programs.
So it goes, with long-term, large-scale science.
Science Minister David Sainsbury said in a statement that the new body "will enable the U.K. to play a leading role in the next generation of large scale physical science projects".
