This document discusses scientific data management and sharing. It begins with an overview of the transition from traditional research methods using paper to modern digital data and complex workflows. It then covers barriers to data stewardship such as costs, sociocultural issues, and lack of incentives. The document also discusses why open science and data sharing are important, including reproducibility, credibility, and faster scientific progress. Funders and publishers now require data management plans and data sharing to support open science.

1. Scientific Data
Management &
Sharing
Carly Strasser | @carlystrasser
UNT
California Digital Library
16 October 2013

3. Roadmap
4. Why care?
3. Barriers
2. Open…
1. Background: data management

4. Why is data
management
a hot topic?
From Flickr by Velo Steve

5. Back in the day…
Curie
Newton
Da Vinci
classicalschool.blogspot.com
Darwin

6. C. Strasser
From Flickr by US Army Environmental Command
From Flickr by deltaMike
From Flickr by DW0825
From Flickr by Flickmor
Courtesey of WHOI
Digital data

7. Digital data
+
Complex
workflows

8. Data management
Documentation
Reproducibility
From Flickr by ~Minnea~

9. From Flickr by ~shorts and longs
Publications &
Their Citation

10. Data are being
recognized as first class
products of research
From Flickr by Richard Moross

11. From Flickr by torkildr
Data management plans
Data sharing mandates
Data publications
Data citation

12. Data publications
Data citation
Data management plans
Data sharing mandates

13. From Flickr by Michael Tinkler

14. Roadmap
4. Why care?
3. Barriers
2. Open…
1. Background: data management

15. From Flickr by cdsessums
notebook
science
source
content
access
data
government
repository
knowledge

16. Open Science
Making
scientific data,
research, &
dissemination
available to all
From Flickr by CapesTreasures.com

17. Map of Scientific Collaborations
flowingdata.com

18. From Flickr by darkuncle
Why participate?
Reproducibility
25
20
15
Good
10
Bad
Ugly
5
0
Trial 1
Trial 2
Trial 3

19. Reproducibility
Credibility
From Flickr by darkuncle
Why participate?

20. www.brutallyhonest.org

21. From Flickr by Robert Couse-Baker
“Help us identify grants that are wasteful or that you
don’t think are a good use of taxpayer dollars.”
Rep. Adrian Smith (R-Nebraska), a member of the House Committee on
Science and Technology

22. Reproducibility
Credibility
Faster progress
From Flickr by darkuncle
Why participate?

23. Success Stories

24. Reproducibility
Credibility
Faster progress
Required
From Flickr by darkuncle
Why participate?

25. Journals
Institutions
Funders
From Flickr by Eva Rinaldi Celebrity and Live Music Photographer

26. From Flickr by cdsessums
notebook
science
source
content
access
data
government
repository
knowledge

27. Digital
¤
Free ¤
Online
No price or permission barriers
Full content
Immediately available
Not just publications

28. From Flickr by cdsessums
notebook
science
source
content
access
data
government
repository
knowledge

29. From Flickr by Ninja M.
Open
Data
certain data should be freely available
to everyone to use & republish as they
wish, without restrictions from copyright,
patents or other mechanisms of control

30. But…
From Flickr by jackcheng
“Scientists will be overwhelmed”
“It may be used for evil”
“The public will misunderstand it”

31. Roadmap
4. Why care?
3. Barriers
2. Open…
1. Background: data management

32. From Flickr by daquell amanera
Barriers to Data
Stewardship

33. C. Strasser
From Flickr by indigoprime
From Flickr by kobiz7
Barriers: Cost

34. Barriers: Sociocultural
From Flickr by freefotouk
Not the norm
Lack of training
& education

35. Missed
opportunities
From Flickr by pnh
Conflict
From Flickr by tymesynk
From Flickr by Christina Ann VanMeter
Barriers: Fear of lost
rights/benefits
Misuse

36. Barriers: Lack of incentives
Time
consuming &
expensive
No
requirements
Reward
structure
From Flickr by bthomso

37. Roadmap
4. Why care?
3. Barriers
2. Open…
1. Background: data management

38. Why researchers
should care
From Flickr by johntrainor

39. From Flickr by hyperion327
Because they care:
From Flickr by Redden-McAllister

40. Because they care:
All data must be in a
public archive.
You can’t hoard it. If it’s not
available you can’t cite it.
Include a data section with
how to find datasets.

41. From Flickr by twm1340
Culture Shift Required

42. Back in
February:
… “Federal agencies investing in research
and development (more than $100 million
in annual expenditures) must have clear
and coordinated policies for increasing
public access to research products.”

43. From Flickr by mikerosebery
There is a social contract of science:
we have an obligation to ensure
dissemination, validation, &
advancement.
To not do so is science malpractice.
– Brian Hole, Ubiquity Press at UCL

44. Website
Email
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Slides
Blog
carlystrasser.net
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