[open-science] Data Watch

[Jonathan Eisen]

All

Am forwarding this to the group - had sent it to Jenny Molloy in our 1-1
discussions

"My original thought on this was to focus on data that was not even made
available yet should have been.  I had envisioned a site where anyone could
post a notice saying "I tried to get this data but couldn't" and even
offering a service to contact authors and editors anonymously so that
people could request access without fear of some sort of retribution.

I had not thought of the issue of data quality that you mentioned in the
group email.  But I can see how that might be connected."

Might be a little dated based on the current emails but figured I would
just forward this to the group ...

Jonathan Eisen





On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Laurent Gatto <lg390 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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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Jonathan A. Eisen, Ph.D
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