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To Share or not to Share?

To Share or not to Share?. Michael Jubb, Director, RIN Dryad Workshop 27 April 2010. Evidence of benefits Citation esteem and good evaluation Explicit rewards Altruism Reciprocity Enhanced visibility Cultural/peer pressures Opportunities for collaboration, co-authorship

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To Share or not to Share?

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  1. To Share or not to Share? Michael Jubb, Director, RIN Dryad Workshop 27 April 2010

  2. Evidence of benefits Citation esteem and good evaluation Explicit rewards Altruism Reciprocity Enhanced visibility Cultural/peer pressures Opportunities for collaboration, co-authorship Easy-to-do No clear benefits/incentives Competition; desire to extract maximum value Desire for/fear of commercial exploitation Access restrictions desired or imposed Legal, ethical problems Lack of time, funds, expertise Sheer size of datasets Nowhere to put it Motivations and Constraints

  3. More constraints • large-scale collaborative projects and teams not the norm • confusions over terminology • data, datasets, databases, digital objects, information • creation, collection/gathering of data not usually the primary objective of research • career rewards don’t come from sharing data • resistance to open sharing of ‘intellectual capital’

  4. Ownership, protection and trust • responsibility, protectiveness and desire for control over data • concerns about inappropriate use • preference for co-operative arrangements and direct contact with potential users • decisions on when and how to share • commercial, ethical, legal issues • lack of trust in other researchers’ data • “i don’t know if they have done it to the same standards i would have done it” • lack of standardisation • intricacies of experimental design and processes

  5. Curation and sharing • little sign that data management or curation yet adopted as standard practice • except in areas such as astronomy, bioinformatics, genomics etc • other kinds of information more readily shared • software, code, tools, protocols etc • challenges for service providers in meeting diverse needs of wide range of research groups • disciplinary and subject differences • subject knowledge • local, national and international • relationships and engagement between researchers and information specialists

  6. Take-home messages • different kinds of data, different values attached to them, different user needs • the sustainability challenge: co-operation needed between researchers, funders, institutions • scope for publishers to promote access • and need for clarity on text mining • and monitoring of Web 2.0 • need for incentives for researchers: support and reward for good practice • benefits and evidence of value • scholarly record • re-use and aggregation

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