The Future of Environmental Data is Open – NCEAS – Medium

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Summary:

"It’s no secret that big data drives the modern world. It advances the security of our bank accounts, dictates the timing of traffic lights and tracks weather patterns. Ecologists generate their own big data by sharing and combining datasets from different sources to analyze trends across time, space and disciplines, but this process is not always simple. They can encounter three steps of challenges: finding the right data, using the data and easily reproducing the whole process. To help researchers overcome these hurdles, open source, open access tools have emerged as a solution. “Open source” programs have viewable and changeable source code, and “open access” programs are free for anyone to obtain and use, no matter the institution, country or funding. NCEAS has been on the frontlines of the open data movement, supporting the creation of tools to enable researchers, practitioners and decision-makers to locate, analyze and repeat. For example, we are a founding partner of DataONE, a network of experts, institutes and data centers that are working together to make environmental data more accessible. Here’s a brief look at tools that have emerged from our work — and from those three challenges as experienced by our own researchers...."

Link:

https://medium.com/@nceas/the-future-of-environmental-data-is-open-e748703a4f86

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oa.new oa.data oa.stem oa.open_science oa.ecology oa.tools oa.discoverability oa.reproducibility oa.reuse oa.interoperability oa.environment oa.climate

Date tagged:

05/05/2018, 16:23

Date published:

05/05/2018, 12:23