Comunicazione scientifica: la nuova frontiera

The new Science paradigm, based on data-intensive computing, leads to a new data-centric way of carrying out research activities. The pioneer vision of Jim Gray on the need of unifying all scientific data with the related literature is emerging as a reality and revolutionizing scientific publishing as a whole. In fact, data is becoming a first class citizen of modern scientific communication. This new role of data in the scientific communication is made feasible by the definition of new formal publication models, where a publication is intended as a set of "information units", including text, datasets, images, videos, sound recordings, mathematical models, workflows, presentation materials, and software packages meaningfully connected by relationships. The two pillars of modern scientific communication are discipline-specific Data Centers and Research Digital Libraries. Being realized to implement complementary phases of scientific research and publication process, these are poorly integrated with one another. We envision that research efforts must be undertaken in order to bridge the gap between published ideas and the underlying data, and make the relationship between data and publication more dynamic.