Excerpt: "will involve
the use of an ecosystem of interacting web-based resources, including the infrastructure
provided by the Virtual Observatory, data provisioning services from Astronomy
archives, a variety of analysis services such as Astrometry.net, notification services
such as skyalert.org, and visualization services such as CDS's Aladin and Microsoft's
WorldWideTelescope."
Data-intensive science and the marriage of science and IT is happening in astronomy, high-energy physics and genomics. The article provides successful examples of eScience and the challenges hindering the spread of eScience (e.g. lack of tools, database a
Showing that articles with links to data get higher citation rates might increase the willingness of scientists to take the extra steps of linking data sources to their publications. In this presentation we will show this is indeed the case: articles with links to data result in higher citation rates than articles without such links.