Pfeiffenberger-Data Policies and Sustainability-NFDP13

H. Pfeiffenberger NFDP13, 2013-05-22, Oxford1

Policy vs. (!)SustainabilityHans Pfeiffenberger

Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Helmholtz Association - Germany

The Now and Future of Data Publishing, 2013-05-22, Oxford

H. Pfeiffenberger NFDP13, 2013-05-22, Oxford2

Information-Infrastructure of Science

- 350 years ago

H. Pfeiffenberger NFDP13, 2013-05-22, Oxford3

“Without the infrastructure that helps scientists manage their data in a convenient and efficient way, no culture of data sharing will evolve.”

Stefan Winkler-Nees (Deutsche Forschungs-Gemeinschaft, DFG)

H. Pfeiffenberger NFDP13, 2013-05-22, Oxford4

“[Researchers would prefer] just one point of access to all data, which would be simple to use and ‘fool proof’.”

But she suspects it is wishful thinking to ask for Google-like simplicity when one looks for “chlorophyll data in the Atlantic at 200 meters depth”

Karin Lochte(Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research)

H. Pfeiffenberger NFDP13, 2013-05-22, Oxford5

Metaphor: Database – „5459 cross section data files, 914 species“

Most trustworthy, useful data! A community resource

No DOIs No formal long term commitment How to do formal QA, data/peer review?

H. Pfeiffenberger NFDP13, 2013-05-22, Oxford6

MaNIDA: Publications and Data network

To be spammed by Citation policy?

H. Pfeiffenberger NFDP13, 2013-05-22, Oxford7

Conclusion Data Publication will be sustained if it is useful

(and reasonably priced) Infrastructure providers, publishers:

Learn more about what is actually useful!

Funders, don’t destroy usefull-ness and use-ability by naïve policy! no incentives to publish random noise, please!

(no “counting” of datasets, downloads, etc.) no incentives to “vanity”/scratch my back-citations, please!

(no “h-index”- type statistics) don’t let publishers (commercial entities) create a balkanized

experience, again!