@article{464432,
      recid = {464432},
      title = {Communicating science and engineering data in the  information age [electronic resource] /},
      publisher = {National Academies Press,},
      address = {Washington, D.C. :},
      pages = {xiv, 106 p. :},
      year = {2012},
      note = {"Panel on Communicating National Science Foundation  Science and Engineering Information to Data Users,  Committee on National Statistics, Division of Behavioral  and Social Sciences and Education, Computer Science and  Telecommunications Board, Division on Engineering and  Physical Sciences."},
      abstract = {The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics  (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation (NSF)  communicates its science and engineering (S&E) information  to data users in a very fluid environment that is  undergoing modernization at a pace at which data producer  dissemination practices, protocols, and technologies, on  one hand, and user demands and capabilities, on the other,  are changing faster than the agency has been able to  accommodate. NCSES asked the Committee on National  Statistics and the Computer Science and Telecommunications  Board of the National Research Council to form a panel to  review the NCSES communication and dissemination program  that is concerned with the collection and distribution of  information on science and engineering and to recommend  future directions for the program. Communicating science  and engineering data in the information age includes  recommendations to improve NCSES's dissemination program  and improve data user engagement. This report includes  recommendations such as NCSES's transition to a  dissemination framework that emphasizes database management  rather than data presentation, and that NCSES analyze the  results of its initial online consumer survey and refine it  over time. The implementation of the report's  recommendations should be undertaken within an overall  framework that accords priority to the basic quality of the  data and the fundamentals of dissemination, then to  significant enhancements that are achievable in the short  term, while laying the groundwork for other long-term  improvements--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/464432},
}