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The National Science Foundation sponsored a two day workshop hosted by the University of Virginia on March 12-13, 1990 at which representatives from the earth, life, and space sciences met with computer scientists to discuss the issues facing the scientific community in the area of database management. The workshop¹ participants concluded that initiatives by the National Science Foundation and other funding agencies, as well as specific discipline professional societies are urgently needed to address the problems facing scientists with respect to data management. This article presents a condensed version of the workshop final report emphasizing the technical research issues.