Processing & Production of Scientific Data: An historical marriage, now in a permanent divorce?
Dana Freiburger · ACM SIGHPC Connect · 2023
Once upon a time, the same person generated and then processed data arising from an original scholarly pursuit. For example: an early modern astronomer predicted sky phenomena based on their observation; a ship's navigator plotted a course using readings from their instruments; and a natural philosopher uncovered laws of nature from basic physical measurements. These measuring and calculating skills would have been studied in tandem before being applied, thus ensuring their wedded deployment. And fittingly, when any results became known, "who got credit" would have been clear.