[Wg-economics-advisory] An amendment to the Principles from Bronwyn Hall
Velichka Dimitrova
velichka.dimitrova at okfn.org
Wed Jul 24 14:42:08 UTC 2013
Dear all,
I would like to forward an amendment from Bronwyn on the Principles to the
statement:
"making access to the original data available to others who can ensure
appropriate protections. " (in point 2)
Since the data user of confidential or proprietary data does not control
the data, and cannot make access available, this has been changed to:
"facilitating access if the owner of the original data grants other
researchers permission to use the data"
See below also the email from Bronwyn and should have gone through to the
mailing list.
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Bronwyn H. Hall <bhhall at berkeley.edu>
Date: 30 June 2013 19:16
Subject: Re: [Wg-economics-advisory] Meeting notes from Advisory Panel
conference calls
To: Velichka Dimitrova <velichka.dimitrova at okfn.org>,
wg-economics-advisory at lists.okfn.org
Dear all,
I am sorry I was unable to participate in the recent conference calls.
Apparently I did not have the right software, and as I was about to leave
Berkeley for 2 months of travel (Europe and US ocnferences) I did not have
time to fix my computer.
I thought it might be useful for me to reflect on my experience with making
data public, so I wrote the attached which describes the experience with
some data I have used in recent papers, all the way from public (patent
data) to almost completely locked up (UK ONS), in light of the goal of
making at least the final data public. The attached document does that -
it's most useful function may be to generate a taxonomy of data types with
examples.
I hope this is useful.
Bronwyn
At 03:12 PM 6/10/2013 -0400, Velichka Dimitrova wrote:
Dear all,
We held two conference calls with the Advisory Panel last week and had a
lot of great comments and contributions and a strong support for
Principles. Please find some summary notes from the calls last week below
and also in this Google
Document<https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/document/d/1PIFQ8KxWqRNCDiNPGfWC1vOZ1ZkvdTVZf06ZuVOF7ew/edit#>,
which allows for additional comments and feedback. Let us know if you have
any additional thoughts.
*Developing the culture and practice of data sharing*
- In some communities there is already awareness about the issues of
data availability and reproducibility: there is a need to present solutions
and tools. In others there is still need to raise awareness about potential
benefits of open data in economics.
- Collaboration between different actors involved is essential: e.g.
librarians and research data curators are stepping in and contributing to
the development of bridges between communities.
- There is a “quasi-effective” way of making researchers publish their
data at the point of publishing in a journal. Learnt societies like AEA are
at the forefront of putting in place data availability policies. Funder
policies sometimes follow suit after journals establish access to data
requirements.
*Costs and benefits*
- There is a need to be more explicit about the costs and benefits,
where preparing data in a useful format requires a lot of time and
resources and trade-offs exist. We should have proper use cases of where
sharing data has been beneficial for others.
- While the hosting and distribution may have lower costs e.g.
distribution of existing data over the Internet is not very expensive,
there are much larger costs associated with data acquisition and data
curation. Additionally, making data usable by others is also costly.
- The is a need to emphasise credit and recognition and an immediate
award for the publishing of data. A data journal could play an essential
role in providing incentives.
- There was a discussion around whether some data should be charged for
to cover expenses associated with the data production. One approach is to
let the funding agencies cover such costs and include requirements as part
of the data sharing plans. (Principle 5. has been extended to include a
more specific recommendation for funders.)
- There are different types and categories of data - getting the data
which is just sitting on people’s hard-drives, for which there are no
issues involved should be the priority at the first instance.
- There are issues involved relating to the lack of a central repository
and no uniform formats for making data available which could aid in
interoperability.
*Open Economics principles and steps forward*
- There are many kinds of data in economics and a lot of barriers and
reasons for why much of it cannot be made public. The Open Economics
principles refer to the data generated with public funds which can be made
available and whether a strong case exist that this should be done.
- There was a concern that the draft Principles may not reinstate
sufficiently the risk of de-anonymising personal data and the risks
involved - this acknowledgement should be emphasised (Principle 2. has been
extended)
- The Principles are short and describe some essential guidelines and
are not messing around with exceptions, there will be some grey zones which
could be covered by appendices and additional material. The recommendation
for preferred licenses is mentioned in a footnote. Additional work may
involve making specific recommendations to agencies (repositories, funders)
who have power to implement change.
- These principles could apply to any discipline - there is a need to
distinguish what is different in economics
- Fellowships for early career academics would be good as fellows would
have more time and less of a vision and they can achieve a lot with support
and guidance. They can have some guidelines but also room to experiment
- There could be also benefits in making grants for specific researchers
to make their data available or possibly for the generation of new and
interesting data.
- A community of senior academics should lead the effort. There is also
a role for early stage professionals, who may have more time but lack ideas
and direction - they should be also given some discretion in developing
their projects.
- Open data may be also linked with the research agendas of academics
and possibly more funding should be directed in that area and such efforts
should be also supported to insure that researchers would get recognition
in their communities.
*Velichka Dimitrova
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