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To Share or not to Share?
Michael Jubb, Director, RIN
Dryad Workshop
27 April 2010
Motivations and Constraints
Evidence of benefits
Citation
esteem and
good evaluation
Explicit rewards
Altruism
Reciprocity
Enhanced visibility
Cultural/peer pressures
Opportunities for
collaboration, co-authorship
Easy-to-do
No clear benefits/incentives
Competition; desire to
extract maximum value
Desire for/fear of
commercial exploitation
Access restrictions desired
or imposed
Legal, ethical problems
Lack of time, funds,
expertise
Sheer size of datasets
Nowhere to put it
More constraints
large-scale collaborative projects and teams
not the norm
confusions over terminology
data, datasets, databases, digital objects, information
creation, collection/gathering of data not
usually the primary objective of research
career rewards don’t come from sharing data
resistance to open sharing of ‘intellectual
capital’
Ownership, protection and trust
responsibility, protectiveness and desire for control
over data
concerns about inappropriate use
preference for co-operative arrangements and direct
contact with potential users
decisions on when and how to share
commercial, ethical, legal issues
lack of trust in other researchers’ data
“i don’t know if they have done it to the same standards i would
have done it”
lack of standardisation
intricacies of experimental design and processes
Curation and sharing
little sign that data management or curation yet
adopted as standard practice
except in areas such as astronomy, bioinformatics, genomics etc
other kinds of information more readily shared
software, code, tools, protocols etc
challenges for service providers in meeting diverse
needs of wide range of research groups
disciplinary and subject differences
subject knowledge
local, national and international
relationships and engagement between researchers
and information specialists
Take-home messages
different kinds of data, different values attached to
them, different user needs
the sustainability challenge: co-operation needed
between researchers, funders, institutions
scope for publishers to promote access
and need for clarity on text mining
and monitoring of Web 2.0
need for incentives for researchers: support and
reward for good practice
benefits and evidence of value
scholarly record
re-use and aggregation