1. Stephen Abrams
University of California Curation Center
www.cdlib.org/uc3
Data Preservation 101
www.flickr.com/photos/infocux/8450190120www.flickr.com/photos/adavey/4735763989
2. preservation is the
means to an end …
widespread data availability,
sharing, and (re)use
www.flickr.com/photos/puroticorico/503484670
4. “Papers with publicly available microarray data received
more citations than similar papers that did not make their
data available, even after controlling for many variables
known to influence citation rate”
good for scientists
get credit for your work
higher impact factor
5. … and you have to
(and should want to)
funders require it
journals require it
disciplinary best practice
(increasingly) expects it
“To do otherwise should come to be
regarded as scientific malpractice”
– Royal Society, 2014
6. what can I do?
www.flickr.com/photos/cristinacosta/4304968451
adopt the growing body of
good practices
10 aspirational goals ►
10. assign an identifier
to your data
www.flickr.com/photos/erskinelibrary/4581870160
ezid.cdlib.orgdatacite.org
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DOIs provide unambiguous
reference, persistent access,
and citation metrics
[digital object identifier]
11. get an identifier for
yourself
orcid.org
www.flickr.com/photos/mumpfpuffel/2337520969
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ORCIDs provide unambiguous
reference and citation metrics
[open researcher and contributor identifier]
www.flickr.com/photos/mumpfpuffel/233752096
12. describe and
document
what would you
want to know
about someone
else’s data?
www.flickr.com/photos/61423903@N06/7357608430
who?
what?
when?
where?
how?
why?
…?
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14. use a license with
the most permissive
terms
www.flickr.com/photos/_elemenoh_/147966697
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is best
is okay
custom data use
agreement should be avoided
16. cite yourself and
others
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add data citations to your CV
and publications
track usage of your data
products through alt-metrics
www.flickr.com/photos/rob_stone/559595880
plumanalytics.comaltmetric.com impactstory.org
17. preserve your code
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everything just said about
data applies equally well
to code
www.flickr.com/photos/mwichary/3368836377
github.com sourceforge.com
20. www.cdlib.org/uc3
uc3@ucop.edu
datapub.cdlib.org
for more information …
… also, a good paper to review:
Goodman, Pepe, Blocker, Borgman, Cranmer et al. (2014)
“Ten simple rules for the care and feeding of scientific data”
PLOS Computational Biology 10(4):e1003452,
doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003542
… and ask your local librarian