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
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“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)
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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?
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MaNIDA: Publications and Data network
To be spammed by Citation policy?
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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!
