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Data Matters: Interview with Maryann Martone

Data Matters: Interview with Maryann Martone

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.

Data Matters: Interview with Ioannis Xenarios

Data Matters: Interview with Ioannis Xenarios

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

Data Matters: credit and quality of data (part I)

Data Matters: credit and quality of data (part I)

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.

Data Matters: Interview with Henning Hermjakob

Data Matters: Interview with Henning Hermjakob

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