Abstract Earth System Science (ESS) is a rapidly emerging transdisciplinary endeavour
aimed at understanding the structure and functioning of the Earth as a complex, adaptive …

The recent interest in Big Data has generated a broad range of new academic, corporate,
and policy practices along with an evolving debate among its proponents, detractors, and …

In recent decades, there has been a major shift in the way researchers process and
understand scientific data. Digital access to data has revolutionized ways of doing science in …

An examination of the uses of data within a changing knowledge infrastructure, offering
analysis and case studies from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.“Big Data” is …

The need for sound ecological science has escalated alongside the rise of the information
age and “big data” across all sectors of society. Big data generally refer to massive volumes …

We must all accept that science is data and that data are science, and thus provide for, and
justify the need for the support of, much‐improved data curation.(Hanson, Sugden, & …

Research on practices to share and reuse data will inform the design of infrastructure to
support data collection, management, and discovery in the long tail of science and …

Traditional theories and methods for comprehensive environmental performance evaluation
are challenged by the appearance of big data because of its large quantity, high velocity …

Discerning Experts assesses the assessments that many governments rely on to help guide
environmental policy and action. Through their close look at environmental assessments …

Big Data has become a very popular term. It refers to the enormous amount of structured,
semi-structured and unstructured data that are exponentially generated by high …