Data Matters presents a series of interviews with three scientists who are amongst the most experienced in data sharing: Albert Heck, Head of the Netherlands Proteomics Center, Ioannis Xenorios, Director of Swiss-Prot and Brenton Greveley, Associate Director of the UConn Institute for Systems Genomics. Read on to see what they have to say about current practice and future of sharing data…
Data Matters presents a series of interviews related to data sharing and data standards. We interviewed biogeographer Jens Kattge, team leader at the European Institute for Bioinformatics Henning Hermjakob and Keylene Simpson, head of a screening facility in Australia. Working in different fields of life science, they all have responsibilities assuring credit and quality of their institutes data. Here they give an insight into how their respective field shares data at the moment and what the future challenges will be.
Data Matters presents a series of interviews with scientists, funders and librarians on topics related to data sharing and standards.
Mark Thorley
Head of Science Information and Data Management Co-ordinator at the National Environment Research Council, UK
This month’s theme is preservation. Mark Thorley identifies two issues: one is preservation of the data, and the second is preservation of the knowledge to use data, which tends to be lost as people move on and retire, meaning that we lose knowledge about how to reuse data effectively as a result. Continue reading
Data Matters presents a series of interviews with scientists, funders and librarians on topics related to data sharing and standards.
As we move toward greater openness in science, the team at Scientific Data believe we need to fully grasp the benefits of and barriers to sharing data across the academic spectrum. To help us better our understanding of why the practice of sharing data is so varied across different disciplines, institutions, and geographies we interviewed numerous people who support the principle – from palaeontologists to neuroscientists and ecologists (to name just a few) but also those working with funding bodies and libraries. Continue reading