scar data management and policy
DESCRIPTION
PRESENTATION FOR THE APECS WORKSHOP AT THE SCAR 2012 OPEN SCIENCE MEETING, PORTLAND, OREGONTRANSCRIPT
SCAR Data Management and
PolicyAnton Van de Putte & Bruno Danis
APECS Workshop 14 July 2012
SCAR-MarBIN / AntaBIFRoyal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
Overview
•Data concepts & discussion Types of data
Antarctic Treaty
Fate of data
Who’s data is it anyhow?
•The Antarctic data ecosystem SCADM
GCMD/AMD
SOOS
biodiversity.aq
Types of ‘Data’
•Data
• values of qualitative or quantitative variables
• Field data / experimental data
•Metadata
• Description of a dataset
Antarctic Treaty
« In order to promote international cooperation in scientific investigation in Antarctica, […]
, the Contracting Parties agree that, to the greatest extent feasible and practicable:
[…]Scientific observations and results from Antarctica shall be exchanged and made freely available. »
What? share my precious data?
Reasons for not publishing data
Reasons for not publishing data
• concerns about patient privacy/endangered species
• concerns about future publishing opportunities
• desire to retain exclusive rights to data that had taken many years to produce
• the amount of effort involved in accessing and sharing datasets
• Time in publication process:
• 90% scientists should freely share data with other scientists after publication
• 30.5% scientists should share data and materials before publication.
Tenopir C, Allard S, Douglass K, Aydinoglu AU, Wu L, et al. (2011) Data Sharing by Scientists: Practices and Perceptions. PLoS ONE 6(6): e21101. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021101 AND REFERENCES HERE-IN
What happens with (meta)data?
Long tail of dark data
Advantages of data publication
Advantages of data publication
• re-analysis of data helps verify results data, which is a key part of the scientific process;
• different interpretations or approaches to existing data contribute to scientific progress –especially in an interdisciplinary setting;
• well-managed, long-term preservation helps retain data integrity;
• when data is available, (re-)collection of data is minimized; thus, use of resources is optimized;
• data availability provides safeguards against misconduct related to data fabrication and falsification;
• replication studies serve as training tools for new generations of researcher
Tenopir C, Allard S, Douglass K, Aydinoglu AU, Wu L, et al. (2011) Data Sharing by Scientists: Practices and Perceptions. PLoS ONE 6(6): e21101. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021101
It’s becoming mandatory
• Genbank• New NSF policy (2011)
Who’s data is it anyhow?On Scientist, data and data access
SCADM• Members of SC-ADM are usually managers of the
National Antarctic Data Centers or a relevant national contact.
• Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Finland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, Spain, United Kingdom…..
• Making Antarctic Data
• open
• linked
• useful
• Interoperable
• safe
GCMDAMD
Global Change Master directory & Antarctic Master Directorygcmd.nasa.gov
GCMD• an extensive directory of descriptive and locational
information about data sets and services relevant to global change research.
• over 30,000 of these metadata descriptions of datasets, data services and ancillary descriptions from numerous government agencies, research institutions, archives and universities worldwide.
• The GCMD contains descriptions of data sets covering all disciplines that produce and use data to help us understand our changing planet.
ADM• The central directory system containing all Antarctic data set
descriptions gathered by NADCs.
• Facilitate access to data
• Maximize the use of data
• Disseminate knowledge about Antarctic scientific programs
• Avoid duplication of research and data collection
• Improve efficiency of Antarctic scientific data management
• Facilitate new research through access to existing Antarctic scientific data
• Provide a tool for support and decision making for Antarctic operators and scientists
• Improve cooperation and interoperability between disciplines and Treaty nations
• Allow better oversight of national programs
The Southern
Ocean Observing
SystemLouise Newman, Mike Meredith, Oscar Schofield
On behalf of the SOOS community
BIODIVERSITY.AQwww.biodiversity.aqdata.biodiversity.aqipt.biodiversity.aqafg.biodiversity.aq
data.biodiversity.aqAccess to Antarctic Biodiversity data
data.biodiversity.aq
data. biodiversity.aq
Data publication tools
ipt.biodiversity.aqIntegrated Publishing Toolkit
standardize and clean your data
manage primary biodiversity data
manage associated metadata
choose collaborators
generate and submit a Data Paper
push data and metadata to Information Systems
Data flowYour data
standardize
DwC-A
upload publish
IPT ANTABIF
publish
Data Paper
Data PaperMetadata document
Reward data publishing
The Data Paper concept
•A scholarly journal publication whose primary purpose is to describe a dataset or group of datasets, rather than to report a research investigation.
•Benefits of the Data Paper
–Scholarly credit to Data Publishers
–Describe the data in structured human readable form
–Bring the existence of the data to the attention of the scholarly community
Rewarding data publication:
ipt.biodiversity.aqAnton Van de Putte
Royal Belgian Institute For Natural Sciences
SCAR OSC
16.00, 18 July 2012
Reasons for not publishing data
• concerns about patient privacy/endangered species
• concerns about future publishing opportunities
• desire to retain exclusive rights to data that had taken many years to produce
• the amount of effort involved in accessing and sharing datasets
• Time in publication process:
• 90% scientists should freely share data with other scientists after publication
• 30.5% scientists should share data and materials before publication.
Tenopir C, Allard S, Douglass K, Aydinoglu AU, Wu L, et al. (2011) Data Sharing by Scientists: Practices and Perceptions. PLoS ONE 6(6): e21101. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021101 AND REFERENCES HERE-IN
APECS BeNeLux• Thursday 11 October 2012
• Presentations by young scientists and invited• keynote speakers:
• Dr. José Xavier, marine biologist and Martha T. Muse (2011) winner
• Dr. Frank Pattyn, glaciologist and ice-sheet modeller
• Dr. Pete Convey, terrestrial ecologist
• Friday 12 October 2012• 4 workshops led by panels of experts:
• Data management• Talking to the media• Presentation skills (poster and oral)• Writing proposals
• https://sites.google.com/site/apecsbelgium/