[open-science] Data Watch

Fri Jun 7 21:39:13 UTC 2013

On 7 June 2013 19:32, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> I'm obviously very supportive of DataWatch.  I think that some of our
> activity may be per-journal rather than per-paper (e.g. when Neuroscience
> said they no longer required suppdata). DataWatch should then challenge the

An maybe also aggregate at the level of topic/field? Different
communities have quite different habits and views on the topic of data
sharing.

> policy rather than the instance. And there may be areas where we can give
> POSITIVE acclaim where a journal adopts a data pub policy.
>
> Assuming that DataWatch takes off then it gives much more likelihood of
> getting responses from editors and publishers and collating policies.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Jenny Molloy <jenny.molloy at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All
>>
>> I'm sure you're familiar with the excellent blog Retraction Watch run by
>> Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/
>>
>> In an blog post in 2012 [1], Jonathan Eisen suggested having a Data Watch
>> site in the same vein. We discussed something similar in the Open Science
>> Working Group at various times previously.
>>
>> We had considered using it to discuss both invalidated datasets (more like
>> retraction watch) and data sharing cases where data is simply not available
>> to back up published research, particularly where researchers refuse to
>> share data despite agreements with funders or publishers to do so on
>> request. The most well known examples recently being Reinhart-Rogoff [2] and
>> (many) clinical trials [3].
>>
>> It would be interesting in the case of datasets found to be invalid to
>> classify where the problem arose - mislabelling of columns, coding errors,
>> data gaps?
>>
>> If you're interested in working on something like this (and the exact
>> formulation of this is still very much up for discussion - all thoughts
>> welcome!), then speak now and we can set up a group of founding editors :)
>>
>> Jenny
>>
>> [1]
>> http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2012/01/draft-post-cleanup-3-open-knowledge.html
>> [2]
>> http://blog.okfn.org/2013/04/22/reinhart-rogoff-revisited-why-we-need-open-data-in-economics/
>> [3] http://www.alltrials.net/
>>
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