Various resources and references for those building data ecosystems.
Harvest Manifesto - the vision behind Harvest, a toolkit for building web applications for integrating, discovering, and reporting data.
Prometheus Research - provider of integrated data management services for research organizations, healthcare systems, and funding agencies. See blog posts discussing data management for scientific research.
Mozilla Science Lab - using the power of the open web to change the way science is done.
USDI - U.S. Open Data Institute
Data Protocols - lightweight standards and patterns for (open) data.
Table Munging Terminology - towards a basic vocabulary for talking about the manipulation of tabular data structures.