An ad hoc committee will organize a public workshop on big data and its use by and impact on the research enterprise. The workshop will focus on how big data is changing the way we do science, touching on the challenges of working with and analyzing big data sets, ethical and privacy concerns, workforce and training issues, and opportunities for public-private partnerships. The workshop will acknowledge the technical side of big data, highlighting, for example, the NRC report on Frontiers in Massive Data Analysis and other relevant NRC work; however, it will focus primarily on the role and impact of big data in scholarly research. A brief, individually-authored workshop summary by a designated rapporteur will be issued in accordance with institutional guidelines.