NLM: The Future of Health and Health Care
« In the movie The Graduate, Benjamin receives one word, whispered in hushed tones, as guidance to a successful future: “plastics.” Today, the National Library of Medicine, and the NIH as a whole, would whisper “data.”
(…) We believe the NLM must play a key role in preserving data generated in the course of research, whether conducted by professional scientists or citizen scientists. We know how to purposefully create collections of information and organize them for viewing and use by the public. We can extend this skill set to the curation of research data. We also have the utilities in place to protect the data by making sure only those individuals with permission to access data can actually do so. (…) »
source > nlmdirector.nlm.nih.gov, Patti Brennan, 13 décembre 2016
