Development of Incentives for Data Sharing in Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
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- Received 18 August 2009 13:03 UTC; Posted 19 August 2009
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- Ecology, Evolutionary Biology
- Abstract:
Ready access to data is a key concern in both basic research and problem-solving in the biological sciences, as the scale and scope of the questions that researchers ask expand, and as global problems demand data collected from around the world. With a grant from the National Science Foundation, from 2004 through 2009, the Ecological Society of America (ESA) has led a series of five workshops on data sharing, to help the ecology, evolution, and organismal biology communities find common ground on how to make data more readily discoverable and accessible in their own disciplines. The most recent of these focused in the development of incentives for data sharing, both at the individual and organizational level. This presentation will summarize the workshop recommendations, with a focus on preservation, curation, and access to data; access to analytical and visualization tools; and the need to make data archiving simple and routine. The roles of funders and publishers of research are also key and will be highlighted.
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Ready access to data is a key concern in both basic research and problem-solving in the biological sciences, as the scale and scope of the questions that researchers ask expand, and as global problems demand data collected from around the world. With a grant from the National Science Foundation, from 2004 through 2009, the Ecological Society of America (ESA) has led a series of five workshops on data sharing, to help the ecology, evolution, and organismal biology communities find common ground on how to make data more readily discoverable and accessible in their own disciplines. The most recent of these focused in the development of incentives for data sharing, both at the individual and organizational level.Results/Conclusions
This presentation will summarize the workshop recommendations, with a focus on preservation, curation, and access to data; access to analytical and visualization tools; and the need to make data archiving simple and routine. The roles of funders and publishers of research are also key and will be highlighted.- Collection:
- 2009 Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America
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- Ecological Society of America - 2009 Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, 07 August 2009
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Duke, Clifford. Development of Incentives for Data Sharing in Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology. Available from Nature Precedings <http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2009.3647.1> (2009)
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