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List of terms for Science publishing
Scientific information is crucial for a variety of stakeholders, but communicating science poses a challenge for all.
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Metadata
Data about data: a science paper contains data, but can itself also be described by a different set of data such as its author and title. This second set is metadata. In electronic publishing, it can be used to tag papers with descriptive terms (author, title, but also keywords and date). This facilitates cataloguing and searching.
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Missed the Global Health Forum 2009?
Our blog, by SciDev.Net columnist Priya Shetty, will fill you in, as will our interview with the Global Forum's Gill Samuels
