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Astronomers and medical researchers deal with a common challenge.
The bizarre and complicated story is a cautionary tale about what we know and don’t know in the 21st century.
Peer-to-peer event techniques for engaging researchers in tool-sharing.
Sharing data is increasingly considered to be an important part of the scientific process. Making your data publicly available allows original results to be reproduced and new analyses to be conducted. While sharing your data is the first step in allowing reuse, it is also important that the data be easy to understand and use. We describe nine simple ways to make it easy to reuse the data that you share and also make it easier to work with it yourself. Our recommendations focus on making your data understandable, easy to analyze, and readily available to the wider community of scientists.
How several UK data services made the case for themselves and handled costing.
Government datasets are political in themselves and their use is under the magnifying glass, says Tim Davies
Experts see increased collaboration as a step toward technological progress.
Open for submissions this autumn, Scientific Data is a new open-access, online-only platform for the publication of descriptions of scientifically valuable datasets. Scientific Data will initially focus on experimental datasets from the life, biomedical and environmental sscience communities with future plans to expand to other fields in the natural sciences.
A study providing new insights into the citation boost from open data has been released in preprint form on PeerJ by Dryad researchers Heather Piwowar and Todd Vision. The researchers looked at tho…
The importance of data sharing has become a mantra within the science research community. However, sharing has not been as easy (or as readily adopted) as advocates have suggested. Questions of privacy, individual scientist’s rights to their research, and industry-academia divides have been significant hurdles. This article looks at the history of the debates and problems associated with data access that occurred during the ‘human genome wars’ and their aftermath as a way to explore some of the challenges facing diverse research communities.
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Rick's Rant for February 26th, 2013.
Blindly trusting it can lead you to the wrong conclusions.
Scientists recant in ethics row over publishing DNA genome of research's unwitting heroine
The academic community I’m most heavily involved in – Digital Humanities – are fairly invested in twitter. At all time...