Scientific Data Management &

Sharing

Carly Strasser | @carlystrasser California Digital Library

UNT 16 October 2013

Roadmap

4.  Why care?

1.  Background: data management

2.  Open… 3.  Barriers

Why is data management a hot topic?

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Back in the day…

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Publications & Their Citation

Data are being recognized as first class products of research

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Data management plans

Data sharing mandates

Data publications

Data citation

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Data publications Data citation

Data management plans Data sharing mandates

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4.  Why care?

1.  Background: data management

2.  Open… 3.  Barriers

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Open Science

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scientific data,

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available to all

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Reproducibility

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Reproducibility

Credibility

Why participate?

www.brutallyhonest.org

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“Help us identify grants that are wasteful or that you don’t think are a good use of taxpayer dollars.” Rep. Adrian Smith (R-Nebraska), a member of the House Committee on Science and Technology

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Reproducibility

Credibility

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Success Stories

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Reproducibility

Credibility

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Why participate?

Journals Institutions Funders From Flickr by Eva Rinaldi Celebrity and Live Music Photographer

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Digital ¤ Free ¤ Online

No price or permission barriers

Full content

Immediately available

Not just publications

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Open

certain data should be freely available to everyone to use & republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control

Data

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But…

“Scientists will be overwhelmed”

“It may be used for evil”

“The public will misunderstand it”

Roadmap

4.  Why care?

1.  Background: data management

2.  Open… 3.  Barriers

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Barriers to Data Stewardship

Barriers: Cost

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Barriers: Sociocultural

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Not the norm

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Barriers: Fear of lost rights/benefits

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Barriers: Lack of incentives

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Time consuming & expensive No requirements Reward structure

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4.  Why care?

1.  Background: data management

2.  Open… 3.  Barriers

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Why researchers should care

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Because they care:

Because they care:

All data must be in a public archive.

You can’t hoard it. If it’s not available you can’t cite it.

Include a data section with how to find datasets.

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Culture Shift Required

… “Federal agencies investing in research and development (more than $100 million in annual expenditures) must have clear and coordinated policies for increasing public access to research products.”

Back in February:

There is a social contract of science: we have an obligation to ensure dissemination, validation, & advancement.

To not do so is science malpractice.

– Brian Hole, Ubiquity Press at UCL

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