[open-science] the early-career guide to doing open science?

[Carl Boettiger]

Hi Bryan,

A related question would be: why do many people use github when they could
just host there own git?

probably lots of reasons:

DOI links for data
Social discovery / centralized discovery
shared public repository -- I can explore all content without having to
discover each researcher's site.
How about scientists without there own hosting, or the knowledge or money
to set it up?
easy to use interface
unlimited capacity for public data?
idea sounds good / supports the open data concept more visibly then hosting
themselves?

The fact that it is 'only' for data and code isn't a big barrier in the
case that it's open, since I can link/embed those figures or data next to
my code or in my lab notebook, etc, so 'location' doesn't matter so much?

-Carl





On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Carl Boettiger <cboettig at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Figshare.org also has excellent support for archiving data and figures,
> you
> > could link to them from the version-managed github readmes
>
> I don't understand what figshare.org's value offer is... just hosting?
> but only for my graphs/charts? Why would I use this instead of my own
> hosting?
>
> thanks
> - Bryan
> http://heybryan.org/
> 1 512 203 0507
>



-- 
Carl Boettiger
UC Davis
http://www.carlboettiger.info/
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