Presentation by Hans Pfeiffenberger on challenges presented by data availability policies and issues of sustainability given at the Now and Future of Data Publishing Symposium, 22 May 2013, Oxford, UK

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Policy vs. (!)
Sustainability
Hans Pfeiffenberger
Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research,
Helmholtz Association - Germany
The Now and Future of Data Publishing, 2013-05-22, Oxford

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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)

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“[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!