Thanks to a colleague who sent me this post from TechCrunch “Google To Become Open Source Science Repository“:
Google is said to be preparing to launch a massive repository of science data at research.google.com. The project, known internally as “Palimpsest†will become a home for terabytes of open-source scientific datasets (…). [T]he storage will be free to all scientists, access to the data will be free for all (…). Two planned datasets are 120 terabytes of data from the Hubble Space Telescope and images from the Archimedes Palimpsest.
Some of the comments on this post are interesting, including some that question just how much information Google knows and owns. How much is too much? In the field of publicly funded research, shouldn’t libraries and government be providing these types of data repositories to make sure that they stay free of advertisements or other private interests? More comments at Digging Digitally.
- DD