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  • Two key challenges seem to stand out in this work: (1) the lack of shared ontology between scientific sub-communities who want to share datasets, and (2) the inevitable separation of data from commentaries on that data (which includes problems of knowledge provenance, and meta-data management).

    Data sharing and boundary objects | Serendipity 2009

  • The data is messy, the meta-data standards are not in place, the resources to curate this data are not in place.

    steve | Serendipity 2010

  • Two key challenges seem to stand out in this work: (1) the lack of shared ontology between scientific sub-communities who want to share datasets, and (2) the inevitable separation of data from commentaries on that data (which includes problems of knowledge provenance, and meta-data management).

    2009 April | Serendipity 2009

  • The data is messy, the meta-data standards are not in place, the resources to curate this data are not in place.

    2010 April | Serendipity 2010

  • The data is messy, the meta-data standards are not in place, the resources to curate this data are not in place.

    Serendipity: What has software engineering got to do with climate change? 2010

  • Of course, an even better solution is to capture all information about a particular run of the model (including subsequent commentary on the results) as meta-data in the configuration file, so that no wiki pages are needed: lab notebook pages are just user-friendly views of the configuration file.

    Electronic Lab Notebooks | Serendipity 2009

  • Of course, an even better solution is to capture all information about a particular run of the model (including subsequent commentary on the results) as meta-data in the configuration file, so that no wiki pages are needed: lab notebook pages are just user-friendly views of the configuration file.

    2009 May 12 | Serendipity 2009

  • What this means, if I'm understanding the technology correctly, is that Google's recipe search will not just scan a Web page looking for words like "sweet" and "sour" and "chicken," but will actually read embedded meta-data that will assure browsers that the resulting recipes actually include the searched-for terms.

    Google's recipe search is still a work in progess 2011

  • The data is messy, the meta-data standards are not in place, the resources to curate this data are not in place.

    2010 April 9 | Serendipity 2010

  • The data is messy, the meta-data standards are not in place, the resources to curate this data are not in place.

    If we can’t make mistakes, then we can’t do science | Serendipity 2010

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  • Seems to mean: "resources to curate the data" Perhaps self-referential extra associations in context.

    May 8, 2012