The document discusses challenges in digital research workflows, including issues with discovery and management of digital data as well as traditional metrics for evaluating researchers. It argues that definitions of "data" need updating and practices are limiting progress. The document calls for rethinking how search and metrics are approached in order to make research more reproducible, transparent, and useful to the scientific process.
35. rethink the way we
rank researchers.
(the big, hairy “social” issue.)
36. “ What Des-Cartes did was a good
step. You have added much several
ways, & especially in taking ye
colours of thin plates into
philosophical consideration.
If I have seen further it is by standing
on ye shoulders of Giants. “
- Isaac Newton, 1676