Maryann Martone tells us about her view of data sharing within the neurosciences. She says that some scientists are “just dead set against it … and there’s another group that just does this as a matter of practice.” She highlights the importance of making data discoverable, and thinks publishers will have to help researchers to store and manage the data as a primary scientific product.
Here we present the second set of Data Matters interviews on the topic of credit and quality of data.
Professor Heck is used to data sharing and data repositories, as proteomics makes use of large data sets which are impossible for any one person to interpret. He asks how we can implement traceability to see how people actually use the data. Read more
As Director of the Swiss-Prot Group, Professor Xenarios is part of a team which curates and safeguards data. He says: “There is a tendency to think that when data is generated it is the end of the story.” He believes that ensuring the data doesn’t languish unused in a repository is vital, and argues that reproducibility of research is actually much more important than the quality of data. Read more
Hailing from the historically more ‘open’ field of genomics, Professor Graveley is used to data sharing and data reuse. But he argues quality is an issue, and quality control is critical to the future of open science. Read more
In July, we look at the themes of credit and quality. Jens Kattge asks how we can make sharing data attractive to researchers, especially as their data ages, giving the example of the TRY initiative which is a successful and well-used repository for plant traits.
Jens Kattge asks how we can make sharing data attractive to researchers, especially as their data ages, giving the example of the TRY initiative which is a successful and well-used repository for plant traits … Read more
Henning Hermjakob has been working on establishing frameworks that make data sharing possible, and easy, by motivating the proteomics community to encourage data sharing. How do we make data easy to deposit, easy to discover, and easy to claim credit for? … Read more
Kaylene Simpson says: “You become very passionate when you’ve spent such a long time performing a screen, and it’s not just about the end target of the publication, but it’s about sharing a gold mine of data.” Read more
‘Data Matters’ presents a series of interviews with scientists, funders and librarians on topics related to data sharing and standards. This month’s theme is preservation, and includes interviews with Mark Thorley, Robert Cook and Russell Poldrack … Read more