This post is co-authored with Jennifer Lin, PLOS Short Version: We need your help! We have generated a set of recommendations for publishers to help increase access to data in partnership with libraries, funders, information technologists, and other stakeholders. Please read and comment on the report (Google Doc), and help us to identify concrete action items for each of the recommendations […]
Category: Data Sharing
Mountain Observatories in Reno
A few months ago, I blogged about my experiences at the NSF Large Facilities Workshop. “Large Facilities” encompass things like NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network), IRIS PASSCAL Instrument Center (Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology Program for Array Seismic Studies of the Continental Lithosphere), and the NRAO (National Radio Astronomy Observatory). I found the event itself to be an eye-opening experience: much […]
Lit Review: #PLOSFail and Data Sharing Drama
I know what you’re thinking– how can yet another post on the #PLOSfail hoopla say anything new? Fear not. I say nothing particularly new here, but I do offer a three-weeks-out lit review of the hoopla, in hopes of finding a pattern in the noise. For those new to the #PLOSFail drama, the short version is […]
The specter of big data is haunting the world, but has the data revolution already occurred?
Changes to the supply and demand of data are restructuring privileged hierarchies of knowledge, with amateur hackers and machine-readable technology becoming a central part of its analysis. Traditional experts may be hoping for a gradual evolution, but a parallel revolution led by practitioners in the private sector may already be underway. Prasanna Lal Das argues that partnerships will need to incorporate […]
Finding Disciplinary Data Repositories with DataBib and re3data
This post is by Natsuko Nicholls and John Kratz. Natsuko is a CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for the Sciences and Social Sciences at the University of Michigan. The problem: finding a repository Everyone tells researchers not to abandon their data on a departmental server, hard drive, USB stick , CD-ROM, stack of Zip disks, […]
Institutional Repositories: Part 2
A few weeks back I wrote a post describing institutional repositories (IRs for short). IRs have been around for a while, with the impetus of making scholarly publications open access. However more recently, IRs have been cited as potential repositories for datasets, code, and other scholarly outputs. Here I continue the discussion of IRs and compare […]
Data Publication Practices and Perceptions
Today, we’re opening a survey of researcher perceptions and practices around data publication. Why are you doing a survey? The term “Data publication” applies language and ideas from traditional scholarly publishing to datasets, with the goal of situating data within the academic reward system and encouraging sharing and reuse. However, the best way to apply […]
Data Citation and Sharing: What’s in it for me?
Research funders, data managers, librarians, journal editors and researchers themselves are calling for a change in the culture of research to ensure formal data citation is the norm, rather than the exception. Sarah Callaghan looks at the reasons for and against … Continue reading →
On the Harvard Dataverse Network Project – an open-source tool for data sharing
The Harvard Dataverse Network is an open-source platform that facilitates data sharing. Samuel Moore outlines how this customisable initiative might be adopted by journals, disciplines and individuals. I am a huge fan of grass-roots approaches to scholarly openness. Successful community-led … Continue reading →
An exchange of experience on managing research data
Sharing expertise and lessons learned is vital when addressing shared challenges such as Research Data Management. The LSHTM organised a networking seminar over one lunchtime in November to bring representatives from different universities together to …