Talk:Cyberinfrastructure

Is jargon really necessary to communicat about complex issues?

"Cyberinfrastructure can be characterized as data-intensive, computationally powerful, distributed, hierarchical, interoperable, and with second-order growth (i.e., generation of data about data and metadata). The first characteristic of data-intensiveness refers to cyberinfrastructure’s capacity to hold a large amount of data in various forms, including numbers, text, multimedia, acoustic, and nonverbal data (Poole, 2009). The goal of combining data sets among groups of researchers was a key driver of initial cyberinfrastructure development. Traditionally, science was limited by regional data, human resources, and the technological capacity of small groups of independent researchers at various locations. With cyberinfrastructure, researchers can combine multiple datasets into one that exceeds what a traditional small group of researchers can collect and analyze. Consequently, researchers can undertake research at a scale otherwise not possible.

I think the "jargoneese" should, at least, be severely text-formatted: Cyberinfrastructure can be characterized as

data-intensive,

The first characteristic of data-intensiveness...

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computationally powerful,

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distributed,

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hierarchical,

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interoperable,

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with second-order growth (i.e., generation of data about data and metadata).

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etc., etc...