[open-science] Open data in life sciences use cases?

Thu Jan 5 01:35:54 UTC 2012

Iain Query is good -- somewhat in the spirit of the [Jimmy] Carter- [Frank]
Press initiative discussed by Harvard historian Gerald Holton in *Ivory
Bridges [SEE:
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?tid=8791&ttype=2 ] and
Science-Anti-Science* [SEE: Gerald Holton,Science and Anti-Science.
Cambridge, Mass.lLondon: Harvard University Press, 1993, 203 p.
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=25868 ]

and then -- for what it's worth -- there's:

E G Campbell, et al. “Data Withholding in Academic Genetics Evidence From a
National Survey,” JAMA. 2002;287(15):1939-1940.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/287/4/473.abstract

“Forty-seven percent of geneticists who asked other faculty for additional
information, data, or materials regarding published research reported that
at least 1 of their requests had been denied in the preceding 3 years.”  [“Of
a potential 3000 respondents, 2893 were eligible and 1849 responded,
yielding an overall response rate of 64%. We analyzed a subsample of 1240
self-identified geneticists and made a limited number of comparisons with
600 self-identified nongeneticists.”]

Though the actual consequences of these denials...???  The article
addresses inability to: "to confirm published results" -- which acts as an
impedance to science (at least as it is hypothetically practiced!)

Tom

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On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Iain Hrynaszkiewicz <
Iain.Hrynaszkiewicz at biomedcentral.com> wrote:

>  Dear all,****
>
> ** **
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> I’m interested in further developing some specific use cases where open
> data (i.e. available under CC0 or equivalent terms) in journal publications
> would be useful or lack of open data has been problematic – to individual
> scientists/research groups, and perhaps even the original data publishers.
> I’m aware of reasonable evidence of societal/economic benefits for open
> data (e.g. within :
> http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/279/2/JISC_data_sharing_finalreport.pdf;
> http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/keepingresearchdatasafe0408.pdf)
> but more evidence (aside from more citations, in microarray research), or
> anecdotes/cases studies in its absence, of benefits to individuals/groups
> would be good. ****
>
> ** **
>
> E.g. “I am scientist doing X kind of experiment and being able to reuse or
> harvest all types of Y data from Z journal (or publisher) would be
> excellent because…”****
>
> ** **
>
> And ideally…****
>
> ** **
>
> “here’s why  the current model prohibits or makes this difficult; or
> here’s an example of where such an approach has been beneficial previously….
> ****
>
> ** **
>
> I’d like to include some of these use cases as part of a white paper,
> currently well under way, on implementation of a variable license agreement
> for open access publications enabling CC0 for data (as agreed at
> http://blogs.openaccesscentral.com/blogs/bmcblog/entry/report_from_the_publishing_open).
> ****
>
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> If anyone has any suggestions they would be much appreciated – and of
> course acknowledged.****
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> Best regards,****
>
> ** **
>
> Iain****
>
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