PRESENTATION FOR THE APECS WORKSHOP AT THE SCAR 2012 OPEN SCIENCE MEETING, PORTLAND, OREGON

1. SCAR Data
Management and Policy
Anton Van de Putte & Bruno Danis
APECS Workshop 14 July 2012
SCAR-MarBIN / AntaBIF
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences

2. 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

3. Types of ‘Data’
• Data
• values of qualitative or quantitative variables
• Field data / experimental data
• Metadata
• Description of a dataset

4. « 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. »
Antarctic Treaty

5. What? share my precious data?

6. Reasons for not
publishing data

7. 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

8. What happens with (meta)data?

9. Long tail of dark data

10. Advantages of data
publication

11. 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

12. • Genbank
• New NSF policy (2011)
It’s becoming mandatory

13. On Scientist, data and data access
Who’s data is it anyhow?

14. SCADM
Standing Committee on Antarctic Data Management
www.scadm.scar.org

15. 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

16. GCMD
AMD
Global Change Master directory & Antarctic Master
Directory
gcmd.nasa.gov

17. 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.

18. 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

19. SOOS
Southern Ocean Observation system
www.soos.aq

20. The
Southern Ocean
Observing System
Louise Newman, Mike Meredith, Oscar
Schofield
On behalf of the SOOS community

27. BIODIVERSITY.AQ
www.biodiversity.aq
data.biodiversity.aq
ipt.biodiversity.aq
afg.biodiversity.aq

28. data.biodiversity.aq
Access to Antarctic Biodiversity data
data.biodiversity.aq

29. data. biodiversity.aq

33. Data publication tools

34. ipt.biodiversity.aq
Integrated Publishing Toolkit
standardize and clean your data
manage primary biodiversity data
manage associated metadata
choose collaborators
generate and submit a Data Paper

35. Data flow
Your data DwC-A IPT ANTABIF
standardize upload publish
publish
Data Paper

36. Reward data publishing
Metadata document Data Paper

37. 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

38. Rewarding data
publication:
ipt.biodiversity.aq
Anton Van de Putte
Royal Belgian Institute For Natural Sciences
SCAR OSC
16.00, 18 July 2012

39. 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

40. 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/