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This tree is the DfR 0.3 System Documentation. |
Introduction
The significant increase in the production and collection of scientific data is appropriately referred to as a “data deluge.” Researchers and scholars confronting this deluge are faced with new data management challenges that have both social and technical dimensions. DuraCloud for Research (DfR) will reduce the impact of the data deluge on researchers — enabling them to concentrate on their real work — by automating many of the rote activities involved in handling digital research material. But DfR also has the opportunity to do much more since "value added" services can easily operate on data when those copies reside in a "cloud." It is the work of this project to analyze researcher and research institution needs, in order to build software and offer services tailored to meet those needs. DfR will:
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